A Waste of Space? Controversies Surrounding the Working-Class Parlour in Inter-War Britain

The split of a working-class city: urban space, immigration and anarchism in inter-war Barcelona, 1914–1936

Barcelona was the capital city of European anarchism during the interwar years. The aim of this article is to discover the sociological and territorial features of the radicalized CNT (the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo), the anarchist union, which generated the summer 1936 revolution. By looking at the role of urban space as a variable in the collective processes of the working class the a...

Psychoanalysis and Crime in Britain during the Inter-war Years

The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain

The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these controls on the diets of working c...

Regenerating England: science, medicine and culture in inter-war Britain

work in social history of psychiatry (p. 38). It is certainly true that social historians have too often ignored or underestimated medical theories, but they have uncovered a great deal about medicine in action. However, since the writing and publication of textbooks, treatises etc. is not a disembodied, ahistorical activity, one might turn Kutzer's claim upside-down and regard social history a...

‘Guilty Women’, Foreign Policy, and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain

For more than 75 years the historiographical debate surrounding the appeasement policy of the 1930s has centred upon the notorious 1940 publication Guilty Men, in which a trio of left-leaning British journalists unleashed a vitriolic polemic castigating those men responsible for leading a hopelessly ill-prepared Britain into a catastrophic war. Thereafter the contours of the historiography are ...