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‘To get freedom, one went abroad a lot’: British Homosexual Men and Continental Europe as a Site of Emancipation, 1950–75 “为了获得自由，一个人经常出国”:英国同性恋男子和作为解放场所的欧洲大陆，1950 - 1975

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad050

Julia Andrea Erika Maclachlan

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The Hairdresser Blues: British Women and the Secondary Modern School, 1946–72 理发师蓝调：英国女性与现代中学，1946–72

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad048

Laura Carter

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Marking Race: Empire, Social Democracy, Deindustrialization 标记种族:帝国、社会民主、去工业化

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad035

Marc Matera, Radhika Natarajan, K. Perry, C. Schofield, Robert O. Waters

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The Sights and Sounds of State Violence: Encounters with the Archive of David Oluwale 国家暴力的景象和声音:与大卫·奥卢瓦莱档案的相遇

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad033

K. Perry

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Introduction: Marking Race in Twentieth Century British History 引言：二十世纪英国历史上的标志性种族

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad036

Marc Matera, Radhika Natarajan, K. Perry, C. Schofield, Rob Waters

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Going Up in Smoke: Tobacco and Government Policy in the Age of Austerity, 1945–50 烟雾缭绕：紧缩时代的烟草与政府政策，1945-50

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad046

J. Singleton

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The ‘Bogus Child’ and the ‘Big Uncle’: The Impossible South Asian Family in Post-Imperial Britain “伪君子”与“大伯”：后帝国时代英国不可能的南亚家庭

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad039

Radhika Natarajan

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The African Grounds of Race Relations in Britain 英国种族关系的非洲基础

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad037

Marc Matera

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Race, Citizenship and ‘race relations’ Research in late-Twentieth-century Britain 20世纪末英国的种族、公民身份与“种族关系”研究

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad034

Rob Waters

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In Defence of White Freedom: Working Men’s Clubs and the Politics of Sociability in Late Industrial England 捍卫白人自由：工人俱乐部与英国工业后期的社会政治

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad038

C. Schofield

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