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It seems right that London’s fascinating Museum of Childhood, formerly the Geffrye Museum, is situated not far from the home of the Institute of Community Studies on the edge of Victoria Park Square in Bethnal Green. As Chelly Halsey wrote in Young at Eighty, ‘Now that he is aged 80 it has become more clear than ever that Michael looks for redemption in childhood. He seeks, that is, the foundations of high civility, creativity and fellow feeling in the way in which human beings are reared.’1 Interest in child ‘rearing’, stimulated by problems in his own family, had led Michael into psychology in the late 1940s, and it had gone on to shape his approach to sociology — and to education.
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A. H. Halsey, ‘Education and Ethical Socialism’ in Young at Eighty, p. 129.See also Halsey’s autobiography, No Discouragement (1996), p. 132.
W. B. Curry, ‘The School’ (1941), quoted in M. L.de la Iglesia, Dartington Hall School, Staff Memories of the Early Years (1996), p. 12. Wells, of course, was as fascinatedby time as Michael was. One of the people to write about Wells was Michael’s friend Vincent Brome, H. G. Wells (1951).
T. H.Meyer, D. N. Dunlop, a Man of His Time (1992), pp.202ff.This was the first conference after the First World War which was attended by both German and Russian delegates. Dunlop persuaded the Prince of Wales to open it after telephoning St.James’s Palace and being grantedan interview.Ibid., p. 203.
M. Girouard (ed.), House for Mr. Curry, A. Miscellany (1996), first published in Country Life.
R. Dahrendorf, LSE, A History of the London School of Economics and PoliticalScience, 1895—1995 (1995), esp.pp. 296ff, ‘Remembering the StudentDays’. Michael is not mentioned.
See B. Pimlott, Labour and the Left in the 1930s (1977), and S. Burgess,Stafford Cripps, a Political Life (1999), Ch. 9.
See R. Miliband, Parliamentary Socialism: A Study of the Politics of Labour(1961) and ‘The Sickness of Labourism’ in the New Left Review (1960). ‘Labourism’, though not the name, figured in Michael’s The Rise of the Meritocracy. For an interpretation of the history of labourism, see W.Thompson, The Long Death of British Labourism: Interpreting a Political Culture (1993).
R. M. Titmuss, Birth, Poverty and Wealth (1943), p. 9. For Titmuss’s earlylife, see the fascinating account by his daughter, Ann Oakley, Man and Wife:Richard and Kay Titmuss, My Parents’ Early Years (1996).
P. E. Rock, ‘Debt Collection’ in The British Journal of Sociology (1968),pp. 176—91. In the same number of the Journal there was a review of Talcott Parsons’s Sociological Theory and Modern Society (1967). That represented a very different kind of sociology from Michael’s.
J. Pinder (ed.), Fifty Years of Political and Economic Planning (1981), passim,andPlanning, vol.xvi, no. 300, 1949, A Record of the Early History of PEP.
See K. Lindsay, ‘Early Days of PEP’ in the Contemporary Review (1973) and ‘Dartington’s Heritage’ in Voice, 18 August 1997;The Elmhirsts of Dartington, p. 282.
H. Wolfe, British Labour Supply and Regulation (1924). The author was a poet as well as a civil servant. In retrospect the Government’s Military Service Bill of January 1916 can be seen as crossing ‘a new threshold’ in the relationship of the state with ‘ordinary citizens’. (J. Stevenson, British Society, 1914—45 (1984), p. 64).
See A. Briggs, Go To It! (2000) which charts with illustrations the history of manpower and womenpower during the Second World War.
See H. Cudlipp, Publish and Be Damned (1953) and Calder, op. cit., pp. 287—9. Morrison was supported by Ernest Bevin. Within a fewdays of the summons ‘Cassandra’joined the Army.
B. Webb, Diary, 26 October 1942.
M. Cole, The Life of G. D. H. Cole (1971), p. 23.
See E. H. Carr, Conditions of Peace (1942) and for Carr’s account of the historical backgroundThe Twenty Years Crisis 1919—1939 (1940).
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