Journal•ISSN: 1478-0038
Cultural & Social History
Routledge
About: Cultural & Social History is an academic journal published by Routledge. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Social history. It has an ISSN identifier of 1478-0038. Over the lifetime, 751 publications have been published receiving 5330 citations. The journal is also known as: Cultural & social history.
Topics: Politics, Social history, Cultural history, Narrative, Empire
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship between the achievement of composure and the personal narratives of cultural silences concerning, for example, civilian men and combatant women in the Second World War, and conclude that the attainment of composure is problematic in the face of lost histories.
Abstract: The cultural approach to oral history suggests that narrators draw on public discourses in constructing accounts of their pasts for their audiences. As well as endeavouring to compose memory stories they seek composure, or personal equanimity, from the practice of narration. But how does gender intersect with these processes and what happens when public discourses have little to offer on a particular aspect of the past? This article investigates these questions through oral history accounts of experiences in Britain in the Second World War. It explores the relationship to personal narratives of cultural silences concerning, for example, civilian men and combatant women, and concludes that the achievement of composure is problematic in the face of lost histories.
137 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines microhistories and the histories of the everyday both in the context of developments in social and cultural history since the 1960s, and in the light of political and social change in post-war European society.
Abstract: This article examines microhistories and the histories of the everyday both in the context of developments in social and cultural history since the 1960s, and in the light of political and social change in post-war European society. Moving beyond debates about historical narrative, it emphasizes issues of perspective, space, size and historical distance in shaping historical interpretation. This historiographical trend, it argues, emanates from two major debates within the social sciences and politics. One concerns the nature of everyday life under modern capitalism and ‘consumer society’, the other the vexed issue of human agency. Focusing particularly on Italian microstoria, it argues that such writing is best understood as the commitment to a humanist agenda which places agency and historical meaning in the realm of day-to-day transactions, and which sees their recuperation as the proper task of the historian.
129 citations
TL;DR: The Problem with Cultural History as mentioned in this paper is a well-known topic in the field of history, and it has been studied extensively in the last decade and even more recently in the 1990s.
Abstract: (2004). The Problem with Cultural History. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 94-117.
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TL;DR: The authors argues that the design and structure of online historical resources and the process of search and discover embodied within them create a series of substantial problems for historians, and argues that academic historians have largely failed to respond effectively to these challenges and suggests that while they have preserved the form of scholarly good practice, they have ignored important underlying principles.
Abstract: This discussion piece argues that the design and structure of online historical resources and the process of search and discover embodied within them create a series of substantial problems for historians. Algorithm-driven discovery and misleading forms of search, poor OCR, and all the selection biases of a new edition of the Western print archive have changed how we research the past, and the underlying character of the object of study (inherited text). This piece argues that academic historians have largely failed to respond effectively to these challenges and suggests that while they have preserved the form of scholarly good practice, they have ignored important underlying principles.
80 citations
TL;DR: The badging of the poor under the terms of the statute of 1697 has long been regarded as the most visible expression of the repressive and discriminatory nature of the welfare regime established by the Elizabethan poor laws, and more recent revisionism in the history of welfare has not only welcomed but amplified their scepticism in its attempt to rehabilitate the old poor law as benevolent and sympathetic in operation as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The badging of the poor under the terms of the statute of 1697 has long been regarded as the most visible expression of the repressive and discriminatory nature of the welfare regime established by the Elizabethan poor laws. In a historiographical tradition stretching back to the Webbs, pauper badges have been regarded as weapons of deterrence in the campaign against a nascent 'culture of dependency' among the able-bodied poor who had come to believe that they were entitled to parish pensions. Even the Webbs, however, remained unconvinced that the 1697 statute was effectively enforced, and more recent revisionism in the historiography of welfare has not only welcomed but amplified their scepticism in its attempt to rehabilitate the old poor law as benevolent and sympathetic in operation. There has, however, been little attempt to measure the enforcement of the policy in the archives of county and parish governance, and even less to reconstruct the negotiations that took place over the wearing or removing of these symbols, which at the same time implied both belonging to, and yet paradoxically also exclusion from, the local community. This paper rehearses the discourses which gave rise to the badging of the poor in the years before and after the 1697 statute, and analyses the politics of identity among paupers, parish officers and magistrates as they actively debated if, when and by whom badges should be worn.
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