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The Family Life of Peter and Ruth Townsend: Social Science and Methods in 1950s and Early 1960s Britain. 汤森夫妇的家庭生活：20世纪50年代和60年代初英国的社会科学与方法

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad040

Chris Renwick

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Imagining Economic Growth in Post-War Britain. 想象战后英国的经济增长

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad049

Jim Tomlinson

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The European Dimension of the 'talks process' in Northern Ireland. 北爱尔兰“谈判进程”的欧洲层面

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad032

Giada Lagana

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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 : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad048

Laura Carter

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'No future to look forward to', Suicide Pacts, Intimacy and Society in 1920s and 1930s Britain. “没有未来可期待”，《自杀契约、亲密关系与社会》，20世纪二三十年代的英国

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad043

Jacob Fredrickson

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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 : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad046

John Singleton

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Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2022. 邓肯·坦纳散文奖2022获奖者

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad045

Holly Smith

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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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Mass-Observation and Vernacular Politics at the 1945 General Election. 1945年大选中的群众观察与白话政治

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Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad047

Rebecca Goldsmith

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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 : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad035

Marc Matera, Radhika Natarajan, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Camilla Schofield, Rob Waters

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