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Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production. 两次世界大战之间英国的工厂旅游：社会民主主义大规模生产的壮观建设。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf014

Richard Hornsey

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'A jigsaw puzzle which Britain finds difficult to solve': Britain, Bophuthatswana and the Sun City Eight. “英国难以破解的拼图”：英国、博普塔茨瓦纳和太阳城八人。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf010

Daniel J Feather

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Capenhurst Women's Peace Camp (1982-3) and after: local nuclear resistance, grassroots feminisms, and transnational solidarities. 卡彭赫斯特妇女和平营（1982-3）及其后：地方核抵抗、草根女权主义和跨国团结。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf017

Rachel Collett

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'What if?' Early marriage and the 'shadow selves' of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s. “如果什么?”20世纪50年代末到70年代初，早婚和年轻女性的“影子自我”。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf012

Penny Tinkler

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'Precept and Example': The Conservative Government and British Sporting Contacts with Apartheid South Africa, 1970-74. “训诫与榜样”：1970- 1974年，保守党政府和英国体育与种族隔离的南非的接触。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf009

Toby C Rider, Matthew P Llewellyn

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Correction to: Mass-Observation and Vernacular Politics at the 1945 General Election. 修正：1945年大选中的群众观察与乡土政治。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf018

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Anarchism, anti-militarism, and the British Empire: the case of war commentary and the freedom defence committee. 无政府主义、反军国主义和大英帝国：以战争评论和捍卫自由委员会为例。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf006

Eleanor Strangways

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Debating the Bachelor Tax: Masculinity and the Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1894-1920. 《辩论单身汉税：1894-1920年英国的男子气概与税收政治》。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf013

Piers Haslam

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Rolls-Royce engineers and deindustrialization in Scotland from the 1950s to the 2020s. 20世纪50年代至21世纪20年代，苏格兰的劳斯莱斯工程师和去工业化。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf002

Ewan Gibbs, Ewan Mackenzie, Alan McKinlay, Des McNulty, Jim Phillips, Stephen Procter

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'Ambassadors of cultural appreciation': the social, political, and associational life of Chinese students in Britain, 1908-37. “文化鉴赏大使”：1908- 1937年中国留学生在英国的社会、政治和社团生活。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf007

Jennifer Bond, Georgina Brewis

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