Title Histories of everyday life : the making of popular social history in Britain, 1918-1979 / Laura Carter

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series The Past & Present Book Series Past & present book series. Summary This book is a social history of popular history in Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1970s. It considers how ordinary people were taught history through books, in school and museums, and on BBC radio Histories of Everyday Life is a study of the production and consumption of popular social history in mid-twentieth-century Britain. It traces how non-academic historians, many of them women, developed a new breed of social history after the First World War, identified as the 'history of everyday life'. The 'history of everyday life' was a pedagogical construct based on the perceived educational needs of the new, mass democracy. It was popularized to ordinary people in educational settings, through books, in classrooms and museums, and on BBC radio. In the 1970s this popular social history declined, not because academics invented an alternative 'new' social history, but because bottom-up social change rendered the 'history of everyday life' untenable in the changing context of mass education. Histories of Everyday Life ultimately uses the subject of history to demonstrate how profoundly the advent of mass education shaped popular culture in Britain after 1918, arguing that the twentieth century was Britain's educational century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed February 24, 2022) Subject Educational sociology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Popular culture -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century History in popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Popular culture -- Study and teaching History in popular culture Educational sociology Historiography SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192638786 0192638785 9780191904783 0191904783 9780192638793 0192638793

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