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Forging the West Indian Nation: Federation and Caribbean Activism in Post-war Britain, 1945-60. 打造西印度民族：联邦与战后英国的加勒比激进主义，1945-60 年。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwae032

Elanor Kramer-Taylor

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Dirty Documents and Illegible Signatures: Doctoring the Archive of British Imperialism and Decolonization. 肮脏的文件和难以辨认的签名：为大英帝国主义和非殖民化档案 "看病"。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwae035

Joel Hebert

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'Monty, Bring the Blood Can!' Pulling Teeth in Working-Class Lancashire, 1900-48. 蒙蒂，把血罐拿来！"（Monty, Bring the Blood Can!1900-48 年兰开夏郡工人阶级的拔牙活动。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwae036

Claire L Jones

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Resistance and Prevention: Rural local government and the fight against tuberculosis. 抵抗与预防：农村地方政府与结核病防治。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwae034

Keir Waddington

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The Art of Speech: Elocution, Speech Training, Speech Therapy, and the Performative Limits of Class in Mid-twentieth-century Britain. 演讲的艺术：二十世纪中叶英国的口才、演讲训练、演讲治疗和阶级的表演局限。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2024-05-15 eCollection Date: 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwae043

Andrew Burchell

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On Sam Brewitt-Taylor's 'The Invention of a "Secular Society"? Christianity and the Sudden Appearance of Secularization Discourses in the British National Media, 1961-4' (2013). 关于 Sam Brewitt-Taylor 的《"世俗社会 "的发明？基督教与英国国家媒体中突然出现的世俗化论述，1961-4 年》（2013 年）。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwae012

Alex Hill

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Teaching Modern British History at the University of Derby. 在德比大学教授英国现代史。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwae023

Ian Whitehead, Cath Feely

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On Stephen Brooke's 'Space, Emotions and the Everyday: The Affective Ecology of 1980s London' (2017). 论斯蒂芬-布鲁克的《空间、情感与日常》：20世纪80年代伦敦的情感生态》（2017年）。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwae014

Stephen Bentel