Kristina HUNEAULT, Difficult Subjects: Working Women and Visual Culture in Britain, 1880-1914

Senses of belonging: the politics of working-class insurance in Britain, 1880-1914.

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Eugenics and politics in Britain 1900–1914

C. R. SEARLE, Eugenics and politics in Britain 1900-1914, Leyden, Noordhof International Publishing, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 147, Dfl. 45.00. Francis Galton (1822-1911) coined the word "eugenics", which he defined as, "the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally". Its objective was the increase of th...

Moderns and ancients: the "new cardiology" in Britain 1880-1930.

In so far as there are two schools, an old and a new, in cardiology, there are two schools in the following sense. There is a small body of workers who spend their time and energies in the collection of new knowledge, a body of workers who insist upon proof to demonstration or an approach to that ideal. This school, if school it be, has been productive, some would say extremely productive, duri...

Internationalism without an International? Cross-Channel Anarchist Networks, 1880-1914

Managerial Inefficiency and Technological Decline in Britain, 1860-1914

British economic decline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been attributed to the growing inability of British industries to compete technologically and organizationally with their American and German competitors. This paper argues that British firms' growth and adaptability were hampered by organizational weakness and that the major cause of Britain's managerial problems...