Contemporary British History, Volume 38, Issue 1 (2024)

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Contemporary British History, Volume 38, Issue 1 (2024)

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Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-1969
Christine A. Bellamy
Pages: 1-22
Published online: 24 Apr 2023
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‘Women Against the Common Market’
Richard Johnson
Pages: 23-44
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Spying (in)spires: The dwindling likelihood of an Oxford spy ring to rival the Cambridge Five
Berenice Burnett, Erica Forktus & David V. Gioe
Pages: 45-70
Published online: 29 Jan 2024
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‘I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’: elite women, education and occupational trajectories in late twentieth-century Britain
Eve Worth & Aaron Reeves
Pages: 71-94
Published online: 29 Jan 2024
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Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies: popular memory, working-class men and racialised masculinities in deindustrialising Britain, 1970s–1990s
Ben Jones
Pages: 95-117
Published online: 29 Jan 2024
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‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991
Anna Bocking-Welch
Pages: 118-145
Published online: 29 Jan 2024
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Bolshevik bogies: red scares in Britain, 1919-24
Jack Grimley Ward
Pages: 146-175
Published online: 29 Jan 2024
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Review

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A World Away: The British Package Holiday Boom, 1950–1974 MICHAEL JOHN LAW Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022 xv+232 pp., ISBN 978 0 2280 0858 3 (hbk) (£93), 978 0 2280 0908 5 (pbk) (£24.99)
Sina Fabian
Pages: 176-177
Published online: 11 Nov 2022
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Book Review

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Punk Now!! Contemporary perspectives on punk
by Matt Grimes and Mike Dines, Bristol, UK/Chicago, USA, Intellect, 2020, xiii+230 pp., £80 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-78938-174-0, £64 (ePDF), ISBN 978-1-78938-175-7, £64, (ePub), ISBN 978-1-78938-176-4
Paul Long
Pages: 177-179
Published online: 08 Jun 2022
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Probation and the Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain, 1907-1962
Louise Settle, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 244 pp., ISBN 978-1-350-223345-4 (hbk) (£85), 9-781-350-233-461 (ebook) (£76.50)
Janet Weston
Pages: 179-181
Published online: 01 Sep 2022
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Windrush (1948) and Rivers of Blood (1968): Legacy and Assessment
By TREVOR HARRIS (ed.), Oxford and New York, Routledge, 2019, xii + 232 pp., £120 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-367-22969-6. £36.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-032-08704-7. £36.99 (ebk), ISBN 978-0-429-27777-1
Kieran Connell
Pages: 181-182
Published online: 11 Aug 2022
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