Erik Linstrum, Peter Clarke, Adrian Bingham, Lawrence Black, Claire Langhamer, Lucy Delap, Jessica Meyer, Guy Ortolano, Susan Pedersen, Jordanna Bailkin, Divya Subramanian
{"title":"Forum: The Past, Present, and Futures of Modern British History.","authors":"Erik Linstrum, Peter Clarke, Adrian Bingham, Lawrence Black, Claire Langhamer, Lucy Delap, Jessica Meyer, Guy Ortolano, Susan Pedersen, Jordanna Bailkin, Divya Subramanian","doi":"10.1093/tcbh/hwae004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For the first issue of the renamed journal, Modern British History co-editor Erik Linstrum convened a group of scholars to reflect on the past, present, and possible futures of the field. The resulting contributions make no claim to provide a comprehensive or representative survey. Rather, they offer a variety of perspectives on where modern British history has been and where it might be going. Several contributions, written by former editors of Twentieth Century British History, drawn on the history of the journal as a way of thinking about the direction of the field and its subfields. Others consider the place of modern Britain in the wider discipline of history, grappling with questions of temporality and embodiment; the institutional and material contexts of scholarship; the role of national histories in a transnational world; and the response of historical writing to epidemiological, humanitarian, and ecological crisis. The sequence of contributions mirrors the evolution of the journal since its founding in 1990, beginning with political history and gradually encompassing a much broader range of subjects and methodologies as well as an expanded geographical ambit. Here are archive stories, pleas for new subjects, roadmaps for new approaches to old subjects, and attempts to identify master narratives. Taken together, these contributions demonstrate that modern British history has many houses-which is both a sign of intellectual vitality and a challenge for anyone wishing to generalize about the 'state of the field'. If British modernity remains an abundant resource for 'thinking with', its contours and frontiers are tantalizingly up for grabs.</p>","PeriodicalId":520090,"journal":{"name":"Modern British history","volume":"35 1","pages":"7-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking Forward from the Back Catalogue of Twentieth Century British History: Editorial Introduction.","authors":"Christopher Hilliard","doi":"10.1093/tcbh/hwae007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520090,"journal":{"name":"Modern British history","volume":"35 1","pages":"83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2022: Patterns of Harm and Resistance: The Early History of Transphobic Algorithmic Bias.","authors":"Mar Hicks","doi":"10.1093/tcbh/hwae027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This piece explores an early example of transphobic algorithmic bias in an electronic computing system in the UK government, which was designed to collect taxes and apportion welfare state benefits. It argues that the logic of computation has long been used to obfuscate political decisions and launder government disdain for the rights and needs of marginalized groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":520090,"journal":{"name":"Modern British history","volume":"35 1","pages":"133-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Jim Tomlinson's 'De-industrialization Not Decline: A New Meta-narrative for Post-war British History' (2016).","authors":"Matt Beebee","doi":"10.1093/tcbh/hwae013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520090,"journal":{"name":"Modern British history","volume":"35 1","pages":"97-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a More Inclusive Modern British History? Reflecting on Barriers, Challenges, and Opportunities in Twenty-First Century UK Higher Education.","authors":"Frances Houghton","doi":"10.1093/tcbh/hwae017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520090,"journal":{"name":"Modern British history","volume":"35 1","pages":"50-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transitioning History Students into Higher Education: The Problem of Factorizing.","authors":"Nick Thomas","doi":"10.1093/tcbh/hwae021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520090,"journal":{"name":"Modern British history","volume":"35 1","pages":"79-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Jim Tomlinson's 'De-industrialization Not Decline: A New Meta-narrative for Post-war British History' (2016).","authors":"Aaron Ackerley","doi":"10.1093/tcbh/hwae010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520090,"journal":{"name":"Modern British history","volume":"35 1","pages":"94-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Helen McCarthy's 'Petticoat Diplomacy: The Admission of Women to the British Foreign Service, c. 1919-1946' (2009).","authors":"Jude Rowley","doi":"10.1093/tcbh/hwae006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520090,"journal":{"name":"Modern British history","volume":"35 1","pages":"89-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Emily Robinson, Camilla Schofield, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, and Natalie Thomlinson's 'Telling Stories about Post-war Britain: Popular Individualism and the \"Crisis\" of the 1970s' (2017).","authors":"Grace Whorrall-Campbell","doi":"10.1093/tcbh/hwae022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520090,"journal":{"name":"Modern British history","volume":"35 1","pages":"106-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forum: Teaching Modern British History.","authors":"Hannah Charnock","doi":"10.1093/tcbh/hwae026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520090,"journal":{"name":"Modern British history","volume":"35 1","pages":"49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}