Contemporary British History, Volume 38, Issue 2 (2024)

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‘Implacable Enemies’? The Labour Party and the intelligence community in 1920s Britain
George Kassimeris & Oliver Price
Pages: 183-218
Published online: 12 Jan 2024
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The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-80
Valerie Wright & Alistair Fair
Pages: 219-244
Published online: 08 Jan 2024
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The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008
Linda Ross & Ewan Gibbs
Pages: 245-269
Published online: 12 Jan 2024
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Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968
Jac St John
Pages: 270-298
Published online: 06 Nov 2023
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‘A state of almost surreal vice versa’: the devolution referendums in Wales, 1979 and 1997
Leon Gooberman
Pages: 299-320
Published online: 18 Aug 2023
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Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005
Louise A. Jackson, Sophia Ayada, Ashlee Christoffersen, Hazel Conley, Frances C. Galt, Fiona Mackay & Colm O’Cinneide
Pages: 321-350
Published online: 12 Oct 2023
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Book Review

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Balancing the self: medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century
edited by Mark Jackson and Martin D. Moore, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020, 368 pp., £25 (hdbk), ISBN 978-1-5261-3213-0
Alexander Medcalf
Pages: 351-352
Published online: 27 Sep 2021
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Love lives: from Cinderella to Frozen
Carol Dyhouse, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, 277 pp., £20 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 19 885546 0
George Morris
Pages: 352-353
Published online: 08 Jun 2022
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Failed führers: a history of Britain’s extreme right
Graham Macklin, London and New York, Routledge, 2020, xii+580 pp., (£120) (hbk), ISBN 978 0 415 62729 0, 9780415627306 (pbk) (£24.99), 9781315697093 (ebk) (£24.99)
Daniel Renshaw
Pages: 353-355
Published online: 14 Jun 2022
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The Beatles and Sixties Britain
MARCUS COLLINS, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xviii+366 pp., ISBN 978 1 108 47724 6 (hbk) (£90), 9,781,108,708,463 (pbk) (£23.99), 9,781,108,853,668 (ebk) (£16.99)
Gillian Mitchell
Pages: 355-357
Published online: 13 Jun 2022
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