Contemporary British History

Unsettled: refugee camps and the making of multicultural Britain

Mass observing the atom bomb: the emotional politics of August 1945

The militarisation of aerial theatre: air displays and airmindedness in Britain and Australia between the world wars

Immigration, race and local media: Smethwick and the 1964 general election

The 1985 Supplementary Extradition Treaty between the United States of America and the United Kingdom: an exercise in soft power

‘I didn’t feel like my own person’: paid work in women’s narratives of self and working motherhood, 1950–1980

Space, text and selfhood: encounters with the personal computer in the mass observation project archive, 1991–2004

‘Queen’s Day – TV’s Day’: the British monarchy and the media industries

‘A disguised Liberal vote’? – third-party voting and the SNP under Gordon Wilson in Dundee during the 1970s and 1980s

The secret life of Ian Fleming: spies, lies and social ties

The politics of popular cultural production and performance in Britain since the Great War

The Queen’s Dolls’ House within the British Empire Exhibition: encapsulating the British imperial world

‘Westward on the high-hilled plains’: the literature of Shropshire and the early twentieth century imagination, 1896–c.1939

‘Nuclear prospects’: the siting and construction of Sizewell A power station 1957-1966.

Political parties at critical junctures: explaining the decisions to offer referendums on constitutional change in the United Kingdom

‘Rivalling the Metropolis’: cultural conflict between London and the regions c.1967–1973

Reluctant liars? Public debates on propaganda and democracy in twentieth-century Britain (ca. 1914–1950)

Infinite conditions on the road to peace: the second New Labour government’s foreign policy approach to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict after 9/11

Rebuilding Britain’s blitzed cities: hopeful dreams, stark realities: Catherine Flinn, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, xiv+243 pp., (£73.44) (hbk), ISBN 978-1-350-06762-2

Vaccinating Britain: mass vaccination and the public since the Second World War

Staging international communism: British–Australian radical theatre connections

Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) and his anti-war and pro-peace protest songs: from hippy peace to Islamic peace

Introduction: social and cultural histories of British nuclear mobilisation since 1945

Weaponising peace: the Greater London Council, cultural policy and ‘GLC peace year 1983’

‘… what in the hell’s this?’ Rehearsing nuclear war in Britain’s Civil Defence Corps

New Labour’s overseas development aid policy – charity or self-interest?

Christian radicalism in the Church of England and the invention of the British sixties 1957–1970

Eric Bogle’s No Man’s Land and the grave of Willie McBride at the Somme