Helen Mccarthy

Datos Biográficos

ID353744
NOMBREHelen Mccarthy
NOMBRESHelen
APELLIDOMccarthy
FIRMAMCCARTHY H
AFILIACIONESQueen Mary University of London
ORCID0000-0001-7204-4158
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS44
TOTAL DE CITAS161
TOTAL COMO AUTOR43
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1997
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H7

  • The Grey Escape

    Open AccessHelen MccarthyARTICLEContemporary European History2026

    This article explores a new phenomenon taking root across the Global North in the late millennium. Emigration, long assumed to be the preserve of younger age groups, was increasingly the choice of the recently or soon-to-be retired. Centring the British case, the article traces the later-life mobilities of two groups: the mostly white retirees who relocated to southern Europe in search of better lifestyles, and the black and South Asian citizens …

  • Moving Beyond the Impasse

    Open AccessLaura Kelly-Corle, Laura Kelly-Corless et al.ARTICLEThe Prison Journal2025

    This theoretical article uses an intersectionality lens to show that, together, the importation and deprivation models can act as an important theoretical tool for understanding the lives of incarcerated people who deviate from the expected population of young, white, able-bodied, hearing males. We use examples from the lives of incarcerated d/Deaf people and incarcerated women to introduce a pain-difference continuum, where the extent to which s…

  • Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain

    Open AccessHelen MccarthyARTICLEThe English Historical Review2025

    This article explores how Britons envisaged and planned for the end of working life across the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how retirement was established in this period as a transition in the life course for which individuals were encouraged actively to prepare. ‘Pre-retirement’ experts popularised a reflexive ideal which presented knowledge and cultivation of the self as equal in importance to shrewd financial management and t…

  • Why the Waspi has no Sting

    Open AccessHelen MccarthyARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2025Citada por: 2

    Since 2015, Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) has campaigned tirelessly for ‘justice’ for the millions of 1950s‐born women adversely affected by the raising and equalisation of the state pension age (SPA). Yet, to date, no compensation has been paid. This article uses WASPI to explore the challenges of organising politically around gender, age and welfare rights, combining quantitative analysis with new qualitative material from the …

  • Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800

    Paul Readman, Geraint Thomas et al.BOOKCulture, Thought and Belief in…2024

  • Beyond the end of history

    Open AccessDavid Geiringer, Helen Mccarthy et al.ARTICLEContemporary British History2024Referencias: 25

    Historical scholarship on Britain’s 1990s is in its infancy. Historians have not yet produced the volume of rich empirical work which has transformed recent understandings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, an absence which this special issue begins to address. This introductory essay outlines existing frameworks for historicising the decade of the 1990s, from the influential ‘Holiday from History’ metanarrative to the idea of a neoliberal consensus,…

  • Ethical Capitalism, but Still Capitalism

    Open AccessHelen MccarthyARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2024

  • Challenges in the process of translating findings from current basic research into clinical practice

    Open AccessHelen MccarthyARTICLEAppetite2022

  • Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement . By Zoë Thomas

    Open AccessHelen MccarthyARTICLETwentieth Century British History2021

  • Women’s international thought

    Open AccessHelen Mccarthy, Helen N J McCarthyARTICLEInternational Politics Reviews2021

  • Challenges in the process of translating findings from basic research into clinical practice

    Open AccessHelen Mccarthy, Helen C D McCarthyARTICLEAppetite2021

  • Flexible Workers

    Open AccessHelen MccarthyARTICLEJournal of British Studies2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 6

    This article opens up a new perspective on market liberalism's triumph in the late twentieth century through an examination of the political battles that were fought in Britain over the regulation of homework. Ubiquitous in the late Victorian era, this form of waged labor was curtailed by Edwardian wage regulations but resurged in the 1970s as a result of competition from low-wage economies abroad and fast-changing consumer tastes. Alongside grow…

  • Women on the Front Line

    Open AccessHelen Mccarthy, Helen N J McCarthyARTICLETwentieth Century British History2020

    As the twenty-first century marches on, significant centenaries in British women’s history abound. The year 2018 marked a hundred years since some women won the vote, whilst 2019 was the occasion to remember the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, which lifted most remaining bars in the professions, including law, accountancy, architecture, and the administrative grades of the civil service. Over the next 10–20 years, we will have further milesto…

  • Onward migration of Latin American families

    Open AccessHelen Mccarthy, Helen N J McCarthyARTICLEInternational Migration2020Citada por: 4Referencias: 9

    Transnational families have long used migration as a strategy for upward social mobility. However, migration projects are increasingly complex and often do not involve a single move from one country to another. Drawing on qualitative interviews, this paper explores how Latin American families negotiate different stages of their migration from Latin America to Spain to the UK. The paper demonstrates how families negotiate within the opportunity st…

  • Career, Family and Emotional Work

    Open AccessHelen MccarthyARTICLEPast & Present2020

  • The Caerau and Ely Rediscovering Heritage Project

    Open AccessOliver Davis, Oliver S P Davis et al.CHAPTERHeritage As Community Research2019

  • Pearl Jephcott and the politics of gender, class and race in post-war Britain

    Helen Mccarthy, Helen N J McCarthyARTICLEWomen s History Review2019Citada por: 1

    This article explores the intersection of gender and race in Pearl Jephcott's sociological thought by exploring two of her works of the early 1960s side by side: Married Women Working (1962), a study of working wives in Bermondsey, and A Troubled Area (1964), which explored housing and community relations in Notting Hill in the aftermath of the 1958 race riots. The article reflects on Jephcott's professional and intellectual trajectory prior to t…

  • Spanish nationals' future plans in the context of B rexit

    Open AccessHelen Mccarthy, Helen N J McCarthyARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2018Citada por: 9Referencias: 19

    This paper examines the future plans of Spanish nationals resident in the United Kingdom following the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union, commonly referred to as Brexit. Drawing on the literature on migration decision‐making, the paper asks how changes to rights‐based ideas of belonging and identity in the wake of the Brexit vote will impact on Spanish nationals' decisions about the future. Using results from an online survey, the…

  • Shadows of Empire

    Open AccessHelen Mccarthy, Helen C D McCarthyARTICLETwentieth Century British History2018

    If the history undergraduate of tomorrow can be sure of anything, it is that she will find herself in an exam hall writing essays about Brexit: how it happened, whether it could have been avoided, and what difference it made to British society, politics, and global power. Such an essay might take any number of starting points, from the interplay of personalities and contingencies (what if the Conservatives had lost the 2015 election? What if Bori…

  • The symbolic and practical significance of dual citizenship

    Open AccessCristina Ramos, Patricia Lauzardo et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2018Citada por: 8Referencias: 14

  • Teenage Wildlife

    Open AccessHelen MccarthyCHAPTERPrincess Mononoke2017

  • Women, Marriage and Paid Work in Post-war Britain

    Helen Mccarthy, Helen N J McCarthyARTICLEWomen s History Review2017Citada por: 2

    This article explores the effects of the growth in married women's employment upon the dynamics of British marriages in the post-war period. Drawing on popular sociology, newspapers and women's magazines from the 1950s and 1960s, it shows how shifting patterns of women's labour, linked to longer term demographic and socio-economic trends, prompted considerable debate about the stability and future of marriage. Whilst some argued optimistically th…

  • Pre-School Childcare in England, 1939–2010

    Open AccessHelen Mccarthy, Helen N J McCarthyARTICLEThe English Historical Review2016

    As most working parents know only too well, high-quality, affordable childcare is hard to come by in Britain in 2015. Governments since the late 1990s have increased public subsidies for nursery places for three and four year olds, yet parents are still largely on their own when it comes to navigating a complex universe of providers who offer forms of care of varying degrees of compatibility with the demands of paid work. As Angela Davis shows in…

  • Susan Pedersen. The Guardians

    Helen Mccarthy, Helen N J McCarthyARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

    It is easy to be idealistic or cynical about the mandates system of the League of Nations, just as contemporaries were, in different ways and to different degrees, between the wars. Agreed at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Article 22 of the League Covenant stipulated that the fourteen territories in Africa, the Pacific, and the Middle East seized from the defeated German and Ottoman Empires would become “mandates,” to be governed with the “w…

  • Social Science and Married Women's Employment in Post-War Britain

    Open AccessHelen Mccarthy, Helen N J McCarthyARTICLEPast & Present2016Citada por: 4

    The normalization of married women’s employment was one of the major social changes taking place in western societies in the second half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Britain, this article explores the role played by the emerging discipline of sociology in fostering this change between 1940 and 1970. It argues that a group of social researchers active in this period helped to reshape popular understandings of married women’s work, which t…