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Narrating the Thirties

A Decade in the Making, 1930 to the Present

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. John Baxendale

    1. Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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  2. Chris Pawling

    1. Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: A Decade under Construction

    • John Baxendale, Chris Pawling
    Pages 1-16

  3. Representing the People: The Documentary Film Movement and Mass Observation in the Thirties

    • John Baxendale, Chris Pawling
    Pages 17-45

  4. In Search of the People: The Journeys of J. B. Priestley

    • John Baxendale, Chris Pawling
    Pages 46-78

  5. Narratives of Empire: Journeys from the ‘Centre’ and ‘Periphery’

    • John Baxendale, Chris Pawling
    Pages 79-115

  6. ‘Kept Under by a Generation of Ghosts’: The War, the People and the Thirties

    • John Baxendale, Chris Pawling
    Pages 116-139

  7. From the Devil’s Decade to the Golden Age: The Postwar Politics of the Thirties

    • John Baxendale, Chris Pawling
    Pages 140-167

  8. Penniesfrom Heaven: Revisiting the Thirties as Popular Culture

    • John Baxendale, Chris Pawling
    Pages 168-187

  9. ‘A Feeling for Tradition and Discipline’: A Conservativism and the Thirties in The Remains of the Day

    • John Baxendale, Chris Pawling
    Pages 188-212

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 213-246
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In a series of case-studies, ranging widely from documentary film and the writings of J.B. Priestley to postwar historiography and Remains of the Day, this book explores the ever-changing and hotly contested narratives of Britain in the 1930s. The authors argue that images of 'the Thirties' have been a continual presence in the construction of the wartime and postwar world, and in particular in the emergent discourse of social democracy and its subsequent decline.

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  • Sheffield Hallam University, UK

    John Baxendale, Chris Pawling

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JOHNBAXENDALE
CHRIS PAWLING

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