‘Continental Connotations’: European Wine Consumption in 1970s Britain

Change in European Societies since the 1970s

Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s.

The article presents an overview of trends in cohabitation and marriage in Britain over several decades, using a consistent set of retrospective histories from the General Household Survey 1979-2007. Time-trends are presented, for men and women, of: the experience of different types of partnership by specified ages, the frequency of premarital cohabitation, the average time spent in different t...

Wine Consumption and Heart Disease

Murmuring in the Waves: A Rhythmanalysis of the 1970s’ Conjunctural Shift in Britain

ideas, the analyst of rhythmic phenomena seeks to peel off the layers of experience that at times are implicit or glossed over by the abstractions of colloquial expressions. The adjectives we use to describe a situation can be unpicked as temporal-spatial relationships that subsist the polyrhythmic bundle. What is the ‘busyness’ of a street if it is not a heterogeneous bundle of rhythms, of car...

The Machinery of Authoritarian Care: Dramatising Breast Cancer Treatment in 1970s Britain

This article examines the professional and public response to the television play Through the Night, which aired on BBC1 in December 1975. One of the first British mass media portrayals of a woman's experience being treated for breast cancer, this play attracted a large audience and considerable attention from both critics and everyday viewers. My analysis of the play draws on sources documenti...