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Resist, organize, build: feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States during the long 1980s 抵制，组织，建设:英国和美国在漫长的20世纪80年代的女权主义和酷儿行动主义

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Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2203917

Fleur MacInnes

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Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-1969 为什么和平时期没有人口登记？解释1943-1969年英国的艰难决定

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Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2201677

Christine A. Bellamy

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One movement, three clusters: the national parks movement in England and Wales, 1929-1949 一个运动，三个集群：英格兰和威尔士的国家公园运动，1929-1949

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Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2196409

K. Mennen

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Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain 我们有钱了吗?当代英国大众投资文化的兴起

IF 0.7 2区历史学

Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2023-03-31 DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2197216

G. O’Hara

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Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021 时期政治和政策变化：1996-2021年英国月经产品的税收

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Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2184804

M. Flinders, G. Lowery

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The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity 西方与孟加拉的诞生:面对大规模暴行的外交政策

IF 0.7 2区历史学

Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2023-02-07 DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2177638

Simón C. Smith

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‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-2007 “保持工党”:1994-2007年新工党的草根联盟和激进分子反对派

IF 0.7 2区历史学

Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2023-02-02 DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2174975

Alfie Steer

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Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998–2000 分娩阵痛还是地狱蜜月?1998-2000年，威尔士权力下放的漫长恐怖之年

IF 0.7 2区历史学

Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2023-01-10 DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2167077

Adam Evans

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Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 2018 Waterloo Bridge谋杀案：将Georgi Markov的暗杀置于过去和现在的背景下，1970-2018

IF 0.7 2区历史学

Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2160707

Daniel Salisbury, Karl Dewey

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'The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)': how LesBeWell imagined queer women's health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis. “西部(中部)的狂野女人”:LesBeWell如何通过书中的内容来想象20世纪90年代酷儿女性的健康状况及其障碍。

IF 0.7 2区历史学

Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2211016

Hannah J Elizabeth

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