Making history together: the UK’s National Health Service and the story of our lives since 1948

IF 0.6 2区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2022-03-20 DOI:10.1080/13619462.2022.2045199

S. Snow, Angela Whitecross

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Only since the 2010s have historians become interested in dimensions of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) histories beyond institutional, policy, and political narratives and the seventieth anniversary of the Service in 2018 gave additional impetus to work in this area. This paper argues for the need for a new interpretative framework for NHS histories that better reflects its multiple identities and social meanings. Drawing on a UK-wide programme of work it explores the processes of creating digital archive of NHS history using concepts and methodologies that foreground the institution’s social and dynamic nature and are underpinned by a commitment to inclusivity of perspectives and actors. It considers the challenges of working across academic, health, and heritage sectors and the need for historians to adapt to sharing power and agency when working alongside volunteers and interviewees. It concludes that the history produced through these ways of working is rich and insightful and has the potential to reshape historical practice and scholarship around NHS histories and beyond.

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共同创造历史:英国国家医疗服务体系和1948年以来我们的生活故事

自2010年代以来，历史学家才开始对英国国家医疗服务体系(NHS)在制度、政策和政治叙事之外的历史维度感兴趣，2018年NHS成立70周年为这一领域的工作提供了额外的动力。本文认为需要一个新的解释框架，NHS的历史，更好地反映其多重身份和社会意义。借鉴英国范围内的工作方案，它探索了使用概念和方法创建NHS历史数字档案的过程，这些概念和方法突出了该机构的社会和动态性质，并以对观点和行动者的包容性的承诺为基础。它考虑了跨学术、卫生和遗产部门工作的挑战，以及历史学家在与志愿者和受访者一起工作时适应分享权力和代理的必要性。它的结论是，通过这些工作方式产生的历史丰富而富有洞察力，并有可能重塑围绕NHS历史及其他历史的历史实践和学术。

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Contemporary British History HISTORY-

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1.40

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期刊介绍： Contemporary British History offers innovative new research on any aspect of British history - foreign, Commonwealth, political, social, cultural or economic - dealing with the period since the First World War. The editors welcome work which involves cross-disciplinary insights, as the journal seeks to reflect the work of all those interested in the recent past in Britain, whatever their subject specialism. Work which places contemporary Britain within a comparative (whether historical or international) context is also encouraged. In addition to articles, the journal regularly features interviews and profiles, archive reports, and a substantial review section.