Women, Service and Self-actualization in Inter-War Britain*

‘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 ...

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...

Psychoanalysis and Crime in Britain during the Inter-war Years

Beyond self-actualization.

"Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs" is a diagram etched in the minds of most business and social science majors and many practitioners. It is much like a mantra and has been widely accepted, though initially it was not empirically tested. In a Theory of Hunzan Motivation (Maslow, 1943) A. H. Maslow postulated that only needs not yet satisfied influence human behavior. The theory also predicted that w...

Refuse and the ‘Risk Society’: The Political Ecology of Risk in Inter-war Britain

This article responds to current critiques of Ulrich Beck's 'risk society' thesis by historians of science and medicine. Those who have engaged with the concept of risk society have been content to accept the fundamental categories of Beck's analysis. In contrast, we argue that Beck's risk society thesis underplays two key themes. First, the role of capitalist social relations as the driver of ...