{"title":"Freud's Group psychology and the history of the crowd.","authors":"D. Pick","doi":"10.1093/HWJ/40.1.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/HWJ/40.1.39","url":null,"abstract":"Two questions: how should we place Freud's remarkable paper Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) in the history of the representation of crowds, masses and mobs? And how might this work be brought to bear upon nationalism and national identity in particular, politics in general? For whilst uneven and in some ways tantalisingly cursory, Freud's foray into group psychology, I will argue, cannot simply be consigned to the methodological past or explained away as just another example in the eccentric and odiously anti-democratic canon of early crowd 'science'. It poses problems not only of an historical but also of a political and psychological nature. In short its concern with the unconscious in collective experience and with the identity of the group and the individual merit attention and reappraisal. Whilst we may endeavour to situate the work in its formative contexts, we may also need to recognise its power to displace us from our own.","PeriodicalId":81455,"journal":{"name":"History workshop","volume":"40 1","pages":"39-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/HWJ/40.1.39","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60911857","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":"Researching contemporary history: AIDS.","authors":"V. Berridge","doi":"10.1093/HWJ/38.1.228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/HWJ/38.1.228","url":null,"abstract":"My research has always focussed on areas which have contemporary policy significance nineteenth-century labour history and the popular press; policy and culture around illicit drugs; alcohol policy and so on. Some of the research itself has also focussed on the history of recent events. But it is with the AIDS Social History Programme, established for the last five years or more at the London School of Hygiene, that the archival and research issues for contemporary history have become most obvious. The Programme's major focus is on the policy history of AIDS in the UK in the period roughly from 1981-2 to 1993-4. My first draft of this paper, given to an archival conference, stated that the end dates were 1992-3. The historical period is continually expanding. This is contemporary history with a vengeance.' There are both problems and opportunities in such an exercise. Take, for example, the most basic level that of historical source material. AIDS in particular has led to a vast outpouring of publication, all of it potential grist to the contemporary historians' mill. There is no lack of published data; there is what Eric Hobsbawm has called 'unmanageable excess' rather than scarcity.2 But access to manuscript material, and in particular the working papers of official committees and government departments, can be difficult. There are differing national policies on access to this type of information. In the United States, the Freedom of Information Act made possible a 'journalist history', a detective story tracing the discovery of the virus, based on the laboratory notebooks of Robert Gallo, which were National Institute of Health property.3 The different health bureaucracies also have their own 'official historians' who have access both to people and to in-house documentation.4 But in the UK, the thirty-year rule restricts access to government information. Material which will eventually be located in the Public Record Office is unavailable. William Waldegrave, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, launched an initiative in 1992 which promised access to papers which had previously been closed. But the initiative largely covered papers which had special closure for one reason or another, rather than those which came well within the thirty-year period. In my own case, access to the papers of the Cabinet committee on AIDS which operated between 1986 and 1989 was refused. AIDS has been a peculiarly sensitive area of government policy, for a whole raft of reasons, and official advisers to committees were also told very firmly that they were covered by the Official Secrets Act. What therefore happens is a phenomenon familiar to many contemporary historians: what I have called 'archives on the run' or 'ad hoc archives'. Archives are picked up, sometimes literally, where they present themselves. Here are some examples from the AIDS research. A member of a gay group had been on a government health-education committee about which there was much controve","PeriodicalId":81455,"journal":{"name":"History workshop","volume":"38 1","pages":"228-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/HWJ/38.1.228","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60911815","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":"Making mothers: Missionaries, medical officers and women's work in colonial Asante, 1924-1945.","authors":"J. Allman","doi":"10.1093/HWJ/38.1.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/HWJ/38.1.23","url":null,"abstract":"For four days in June, 1931, government, church and business representatives from eight European countries and from several colonial territories in Africa met in Geneva to discuss the welfare of African children.' Summoned by the Save the Children International Union during the depths of the world-wide Depression, the participants discussed the application of the 1924 Declaration of Geneva and its provisions for the protection of children to the children of colonized Africa. Echoing much of the broader discourse surrounding maternal and infant welfare of the late 1920s and early 1930s, the conference participants blamed social diseases, poverty, 'native midwives and their anti-hygienic practices', mothers' 'carelessness' and 'irrational feeding' of infants, superstition and, finally, 'lack of sufficient medical aid' for infant mortality rates which exceeded seventy percent in some areas. Although the conference repudiated the 'tendency to blame the mother', its published conclusions focussed almost exclusively on the education of mothers and children and avoided pronouncements on the effects of migrant and forced labour, cash-cropping or taxation.3 Indeed, as Evelyn Sharp, the conference's chronicler, wrote, 'the urgent need for education . . . was brought persistently to the notice of the delegates, although the questions before them were nominally pathological and economic'. In short, 'Making African History at Geneva' (the title of Sharp's first chapter) required, above all, the making of African mothers.","PeriodicalId":81455,"journal":{"name":"History workshop","volume":"38 1","pages":"23-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/HWJ/38.1.23","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60911824","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 first world war: healthy or hungry?","authors":"L. Bryder, J. Winter","doi":"10.1093/HWJ/24.1.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/HWJ/24.1.141","url":null,"abstract":"The history of health and illness is not of mere antiquarian interest to historians of medicine; it is integral to an understanding of the impact of the social and economic policies of governments. The debate on the states of health in the 1930s, recently conducted in social and economic history journals, relates to whether or not government policies caused widespread malnutrition. The 'myth of the hungry thirties' was first challenged by economic historians, arguing that conditions in residual depressed areas should not obscure the overall picture of an improvement in the social and economic condition of the population as a whole, and that the government's policies of the 1930s were laying the basis of future prosperity. They argued that views to the contrary were mere socialist progaganda. Demographic and social historians have contributed to this revisionist account of the 1930s by analysing health statistics, making use of official reports of the Ministry of Health and national statistics relating to individual diseases, to show that unemployment and government policies did not endanger the health of the people. Other social historians have, however, challenged the evidence on which this new analysis of the health of the British people in the 1930s is based. They have pointed to the danger of accepting official health reports at face value, for officialdom was not without political interest; and they have shown how health statistics themselves, being open to interpretation, do not provide an objective scientific insight to the health of the times. In particular, national aggregate statistics are shown to be of","PeriodicalId":81455,"journal":{"name":"History workshop","volume":"24 1","pages":"141-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/HWJ/24.1.141","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60911535","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":"Patients and practitioners: virtues and vices of the new social history of medicine.","authors":"P. Weindling","doi":"10.1093/HWJ/24.1.191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/HWJ/24.1.191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81455,"journal":{"name":"History workshop","volume":"24 1","pages":"191-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/HWJ/24.1.191","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60911591","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":"Asylums, families and the state.","authors":"M. Finnane","doi":"10.1093/HWJ/20.1.134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/HWJ/20.1.134","url":null,"abstract":"In a review of recent work on institutionalisation, Michael Ignatieff (History Workshop Journal 15) has suggested that more attention needs to be paid to the role of the working class family in reconstructing the place of incarceration in modern societies. This should be part he argues, of a broader re-orientation of social history, which should start from the 'assumption that a society is a densely woven fabric of permissions, prohibitions, obligations and rules, sustained and enforced at a thousand points rather than a neatly organized pyramid of power'. In that 'fabric' the total institution was but 'one relay, one thread'. New forms of the state, Ignatieff suggests, may be 'partly creations of those classes which they are intended to control'. Thus his emphasis on the necessity of examining the relationship between the institution and its social environs, between families, classes and incarceration.' Ignatieff's statement is an invitation to those who have worked in the field to reflect on their own work and on some of his hypotheses. In what follows I want to take up this invitation in offering some concrete examples of the process of institutionalisation and suggesting some refinements to the thesis outlined by Ignatieff in relation to one particular institution: the lunatic asylum. My research has been principally in Australia and Ireland so the material I have to offer and the refinements I suggest draw on contexts which differed from those of the industrialised cities of Victorian Britain. But there are lessons to be drawn from that difference for our understanding of institutionalisation, its appropriation by masters for a variety of purposes, its use by classes with a range of intentions. The hazards of writing about the asylum without examining the process","PeriodicalId":81455,"journal":{"name":"History workshop","volume":"20 1","pages":"134-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/HWJ/20.1.134","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60911523","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":"Pride and prejudice: ladies and nurses in the Crimean War.","authors":"A. Summers","doi":"10.1093/HWJ/16.1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/HWJ/16.1.33","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81455,"journal":{"name":"History workshop","volume":"16 1","pages":"33-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/HWJ/16.1.33","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60911327","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 free mothers\": pronatalism and working women in industry at the end of the last war in Britain.","authors":"D. Riley","doi":"10.1093/HWJ/11.1.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/HWJ/11.1.59","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81455,"journal":{"name":"History workshop","volume":"52 1","pages":"59-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/HWJ/11.1.59","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60911303","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":"Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: clues and scientific method.","authors":"C. Ginzburg","doi":"10.1093/HWJ/9.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/HWJ/9.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81455,"journal":{"name":"History workshop","volume":"9 1","pages":"5-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/HWJ/9.1.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60912465","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}