Matthew Hilton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 548723 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matthew Hilton |
| NOMBRES | Matthew |
| APELLIDO | Hilton |
| FIRMA | HILTON M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6792-2208 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 145 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Caregivers as experimenters
Previous work has found that shy children show chance‐level disambiguation and retention of novel word meanings in a typical lab‐based word learning task. This effect could be explained in terms of shy children's aversion to unfamiliarity disrupting the requisite attentional processes, because the task is marked by a high degree of unfamiliarity. To test this argument, we examined whether increasing the familiarity of the task facilitates shy chi…
History after Hobsbawm
Charity and the End of Empire
British non-governmental organizations (NGOs) became a part of the modern aid industry in the 1960s, particularly across Africa. At the moment of decolonization, humanitarian charities were recast into modern NGOs focused on small-scale grassroots initiatives nevertheless tied to long-term official development planning. NGOs and charities were popular because they represented many things for many people. For the late colonial state, they were the…
History and Humanitarianism
There has been an undeniable interest in recent years in the history of humanitarianism.It is a field that has grown quickly and, as a field of inquiry, it incorporates a vast spectrum of subjects: from the history of anti-slavery movements in the eighteenth century, emergency relief in times of famine in the nineteenth, responses to refugee crises in the twentieth, through to longer-term development and poverty eradication programmes during and …
History after Hobsbawm
What does it mean—and what might it yet come to mean—to write ‘history’ in the twenty-first century? This volume brings together leading historians from across the globe to ask what being an historian should mean in their particular fields of study. Taking their cue from one of the previous century’s greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, and his interests across many periods and places, the essays approach their subjects with an underlying sense of…
The effect of shyness on children's formation and retention of novel word–object mappings
This study set out to examine whether shyness, an aversion to novelty and unfamiliar social situations, can affect the processes that underlie early word learning. Twenty-four-month-old children ( n =32) were presented with sets of one novel and two familiar objects, and it was found that shyer children were less likely to select a novel object as the referent of a novel label. Furthermore, not-shy children then showed evidence of retaining these…
New Times revisited
The authors in this volume are collectively engaged with a historical puzzle: What happens if we examine the decade once we step out of the shadows cast by Thatcher? That is, does the decade of the 1980s as a significant and meaningful periodisation (equivalent to that of the 1960s) still work if Thatcher becomes but one part of the story rather than the story itself? The essays in this collection suggest that the 1980s only makes sense as a poli…
Cultural Studies 50 Years On
Stuart Hall conceptualized his time at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies as a series of interruptions. It was this fluidity that gave rise to Hall’s conception of cultural studies as a ‘moving target’, a fusion of a range of disciplinary approaches that was uniquely influenced by politics in the world beyond the academy. The political commitments of those at the Centre were wide-ranging and, from its embrace of collective ways of resea…
Humanitarianisms in context
This introduction describes the rapidly expanding history of non-state humanitarianism in terms of three themes. First, it argues that we should think about humanitarianism less in terms of ruptures or breaks, and focus more on the moments of acceleration and the continuities that shaped that narrative: how the relationships among local, national and international discourses were played out in the shift between imperial and post-colonial worlds, …
Cultural Studies 50 Years On
Charity, Decolonization and Development
The Starehe Boys School in Nairobi is one of the undoubted success stories of post-independence Kenya.It was founded in 1959 by Geoffrey Griffin, a disillusioned former British army officer.Appalled by the atrocities committed by both sides during the Mau Mau Emergency (1952-60), Griffin refused to renew his commission and worked instead to care for juveniles caught up in the crisis.Initially with just two tin sheds on a piece of waste ground not…
Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Atlantic World
Since their respective foundations in 1895 and 1952, both the American Historical Review and Past and Present have maintained a commitment to the importance of being generalist journals. We continue to publish articles that can cover any period and any place or region so long as they can be presented in a manner that might appeal to historians and other scholars far removed from the authors’ own areas of specialism and expertise. That said, certa…
The working practices of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
This article offers a history of the working practices of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Based on extensive interviews with former members and on research into a new archive of the Centre, housed in the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham, it argues that cultural studies as practised in the 1970s was always a heterogeneous subject. The CCCS was heavily influenced by the events of 1968 when it tried to deve…
Ken Loach and the Save the Children Film
Cultural Studies in the Archive
An archive of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) is currently being established at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham. Several depositions have already been mad
Beyond Our Means
Consumer Movements
The phenomena of consumer organizing, consumer protesting, consumer activism, and consumer movements are not confined to recent decades. While many consumers have undoubtedly displayed a voracious appetite for getting ever more stuff, others have demonstrated an engaged form of citizenship eager to inject morality and politics into the marketplace. Yet for all that the study of consumption has expanded exponentially over the last three decades, i…
A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain
Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society' and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more inf
Le greenrush
À la fin des années 1980, le mouvement écologiste au Royaume-Uni connut une période exceptionnellement faste : croissance vertigineuse du nombre d'adhérents et des revenus des associations (Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth ou WWF), score exceptionnel du Green Party aux élections européennes, omniprésence des questions environnementales dans les médias ou dans le monde politique. Cette « bulle verte » éclata cependant rapidement et fut suivie d'un…
The Ages of Voluntarism
This book provides the historical background to the rise of the Big Society, surveying the history of voluntarism over the last century. Politicians and commentators have long bemoaned the supposed decline of civic life, fretting about its health and its future. In fact, the real story of voluntarism over the last hundred years has not been decline, but constant evolution and change. Whether we use the terms charity, philanthropy, civil society, …
Witness Seminar
Politics is Ordinary
Journal Article Politics is Ordinary: Non-governmental Organizations and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain Get access Matthew Hilton Matthew Hilton * University of Birmingham, UK * [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 230–268, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwr002 Published: 23 May 2011
NGOs in Contemporary Britain
Examining the history of social movements and non-state socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have proliferated in Britain since 1945, and how they have r
The Death of a Consumer Society
This paper argues that the meaning of consumer society has changed over the last half century, principally through the prioritisation of choice over access. It does this through an examination of the global consumer movement and a consideration of its successes and failures. It demonstrates that through the movement's own tactics, and the defeats it suffered by opponents of regulation, its earlier emphasis on the right of consumers to enjoy basic…
Saving the Children
History and Humanitarianism
There has been an undeniable interest in recent years in the history of humanitarianism.It is a field that has grown quickly and, as a field of inquiry, it incorporates a vast spectrum of subjects: from the history of anti-slavery movements in the eighteenth century, emergency relief in times of famine in the nineteenth, responses to refugee crises in the twentieth, through to longer-term development and poverty eradication programmes during and …
The Legacy of Luxury
This article argues that the luxury debates of the 18th century left a legacy for discussions of consumption up to the present day. First, the vices and virtues of moral discourse became the use and abuse, productive and unproductive, of 19th-century liberalism; second, in the early 20th century, these dichotomies were applied to the new mass market, as cheap standardized goods were alleged to destroy the liberal individuality of the consumer; th…
Politics is Ordinary
Journal Article Politics is Ordinary: Non-governmental Organizations and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain Get access Matthew Hilton Matthew Hilton * University of Birmingham, UK * [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 230–268, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwr002 Published: 23 May 2011
The Female Consumer and the Politics of Consumption in Twentieth-Century Britain
This article traces the history of women's participation in consumer politics and the gendering of the consumer in twentieth-century Britain. It does so by focusing on two important moments in the official discussion of the consumer interest: the Consumers' Council of the First World War and the Molony Committee on Consumer Protection, 1959–1962. It argues that notions of consumer-citizenship have been varied and forever in flux and that the invo…
Humanitarianisms in context
This introduction describes the rapidly expanding history of non-state humanitarianism in terms of three themes. First, it argues that we should think about humanitarianism less in terms of ruptures or breaks, and focus more on the moments of acceleration and the continuities that shaped that narrative: how the relationships among local, national and international discourses were played out in the shift between imperial and post-colonial worlds, …
Social activism in an age of consumption
What is the meaning of social activism in an age of consumption? The term ‘consumer society’ usually invokes that which is being reacted to – or rebelled against – than that which is being fought f
Consumers and the State since the Second World War
In the twentieth century, consumption became a political project intimately bound up with the state. By the 1950s, governments across the world worked to promote a vision of consumer society based around access and participation—affluence for all—rather than choice and luxury for the few. This vision of consumerism was tied in with the geopolitics of the cold war but was also constitutive of other globalizing trends that connected not only Wester…
Ken Loach and the Save the Children Film
Consumerism, Solidarity and Communism
It has long been assumed that inattention to matters of consumption contributed to the collapse of the centrally planned economies of the Soviet bloc. In Poland, the party-state followed a productivist model which occasionally paid lip-service to the consumer but which ultimately focused on the dictates of production. Yet, by 1981, there existed an organized consumer movement (Federacja Konsumentów) which emerged amidst the broader challenges to …
The Fable of the Sheep, or, Private Virtues, Public Vices
1University of Birmingham
The working practices of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
This article offers a history of the working practices of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Based on extensive interviews with former members and on research into a new archive of the Centre, housed in the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham, it argues that cultural studies as practised in the 1970s was always a heterogeneous subject. The CCCS was heavily influenced by the events of 1968 when it tried to deve…
Beyond Our Means
The Death of a Consumer Society
This paper argues that the meaning of consumer society has changed over the last half century, principally through the prioritisation of choice over access. It does this through an examination of the global consumer movement and a consideration of its successes and failures. It demonstrates that through the movement's own tactics, and the defeats it suffered by opponents of regulation, its earlier emphasis on the right of consumers to enjoy basic…
New Times revisited
The authors in this volume are collectively engaged with a historical puzzle: What happens if we examine the decade once we step out of the shadows cast by Thatcher? That is, does the decade of the 1980s as a significant and meaningful periodisation (equivalent to that of the 1960s) still work if Thatcher becomes but one part of the story rather than the story itself? The essays in this collection suggest that the 1980s only makes sense as a poli…
Witness Seminar
Consumerism in Health Care
This paper examines the potential for, and the contradictions inherent in, voluntary sector health service providers acting as consumer representatives. The paper examines a U.K. gay men’s HIV prevention organization to consider whether members are united by their experiences of using services, whether their work involves consumerist strategies, if so whether these are influential, and what tensions emerge from the dual provider/consumer role. Fi…
Saving the Children
Charity, Decolonization and Development
The Starehe Boys School in Nairobi is one of the undoubted success stories of post-independence Kenya.It was founded in 1959 by Geoffrey Griffin, a disillusioned former British army officer.Appalled by the atrocities committed by both sides during the Mau Mau Emergency (1952-60), Griffin refused to renew his commission and worked instead to care for juveniles caught up in the crisis.Initially with just two tin sheds on a piece of waste ground not…
The Consumer Movement and Civil Society in Malaysia
This paper examines the consumer movement in Malaysia, especially the Consumers' Association of Penang and the Federation of Malaysian Consumer Associations. It traces their history from the late 1960s, through a period of rapid social and economic change associated with the New Economic Policy of the 1970s and 1980s. Partly because of the absence of other NGOs in Malaysia (due to government clampdowns on civil society), consumer groups were able…
Class, Consumption and the Public Sphere
G. Crossick and S. Jaumain (eds), Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850–1939, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999; pp. xvii + 326; ISBN 1840142367 A. Kidd and D. Nicholls (eds), Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800–1940, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1999; pp. xiii + 223; ISBN 0719056764 S. Strasser, C. McGovern and M. Judt (eds), Getting and Spending: European and American Consume…
Retailing History as Economic and Cultural History
This article stresses how the history of retailing can be seen as both economic and cultural history. It does so by using a case study of the history of the specialist tobacconist from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. These independent retailers moved from a position of skilled artisan traders in which they not only sold commodities but played a major role in the direction of consumption to one in which they merely formed the i…
‘A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make’
Une approche chronologique a ete adoptee pour demontrer que la campagne anti-tabac n'a pas convaincu les gens, qui au contraire ont augmente leur consommation de cigarettes a la fin du XIX e siecle en Grande-Bratagne
Retailing History as Economic and Cultural History
This article stresses how the history of retailing can be seen as both economic and cultural history. It does so by using a case study of the history of the specialist tobacconist from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. These independent retailers moved from a position of skilled artisan traders in which they not only sold commodities but played a major role in the direction of consumption to one in which they merely formed the i…
Class, Consumption and the Public Sphere
G. Crossick and S. Jaumain (eds), Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850–1939, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999; pp. xvii + 326; ISBN 1840142367 A. Kidd and D. Nicholls (eds), Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800–1940, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1999; pp. xiii + 223; ISBN 0719056764 S. Strasser, C. McGovern and M. Judt (eds), Getting and Spending: European and American Consume…
The Politics of Consumption
Objects and commodities have frequently been studied to assess their position within consumer - or material - culture, but all too rarely have scholars examined the politics that lie behind that culture. This book fills the gap and explores the political and state structures that have shaped the consumer and the nature of his or her consumption. From medieval sumptuary laws to recent debates in governments about consumer protection, consumption h…
The Politics of Consumption
Austerity in britain
Consumerism in Health Care
This paper examines the potential for, and the contradictions inherent in, voluntary sector health service providers acting as consumer representatives. The paper examines a U.K. gay men’s HIV prevention organization to consider whether members are united by their experiences of using services, whether their work involves consumerist strategies, if so whether these are influential, and what tensions emerge from the dual provider/consumer role. Fi…
The Female Consumer and the Politics of Consumption in Twentieth-Century Britain
This article traces the history of women's participation in consumer politics and the gendering of the consumer in twentieth-century Britain. It does so by focusing on two important moments in the official discussion of the consumer interest: the Consumers' Council of the First World War and the Molony Committee on Consumer Protection, 1959–1962. It argues that notions of consumer-citizenship have been varied and forever in flux and that the invo…
The Fable of the Sheep, or, Private Virtues, Public Vices
1University of Birmingham
Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain
Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain
This book is the first comprehensive history of consumerism as an organised social and political movement. Matthew Hilton offers a groundbreaking account of consumer movements, ideologies and organisations in twentieth-century Britain. He argues that in organisations such as the Co-operative movement and the Consumers' Association individual concern with what and how we spend our wages led to forms of political engagement too often overlooked in …
The Legacy of Luxury
This article argues that the luxury debates of the 18th century left a legacy for discussions of consumption up to the present day. First, the vices and virtues of moral discourse became the use and abuse, productive and unproductive, of 19th-century liberalism; second, in the early 20th century, these dichotomies were applied to the new mass market, as cheap standardized goods were alleged to destroy the liberal individuality of the consumer; th…
Au nom du consommateur
Qui parle au nom du consommateur ? Des associations, des administrations, des industriels, des hommes politiques, des experts : nombreux sont ceux qui pretendent le representer. Du boycottage des grandes marques au refus des OGM, les questions de consommation suscitent aujourd’hui d’importantes mobilisations sociales. Face aux crises alimentaires et de sante publique, les Etats, quant a eux, sont confrontes a de nouveaux enjeux de politiques publ…
Michael Young and the Consumer Movement
It would be foolish to associate the modern, comparative-testing consumer movement with just one individual. When consumer organisations emerged in Europe in the 1950s, following the lead taken in
Consumer Protection in the United Kingdom
The making of the consumer
Marketing Health
In Marketing Health Virginia Berridge has provided a thoroughgoing, if densely written, account of smoking and public health since the Second World War. In doing so, she has deliberately eschewed the opportunity to explore a number of themes that have attracted various analysts to the subject: of the role of smoking in British culture; of the intrigues of the tobacco industry; of the apparent hypocrisy of the government arising from the competing…
Social activism in an age of consumption
What is the meaning of social activism in an age of consumption? The term ‘consumer society’ usually invokes that which is being reacted to – or rebelled against – than that which is being fought f
Household Gods
Reviewed by: Household Gods: The British and their Possessions Matthew Hilton (bio) Household Gods: The British and their Possessions, by Deborah Cohen; pp. xvii + 296. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, $40.00, £25.00. Of all the trite assumptions made about the national character none is so common as "the Englishman's home is his castle." Deborah Cohen deliberately avoids the cliché [End Page 721] but nevertheless provides compe…
Consumerism, Solidarity and Communism
It has long been assumed that inattention to matters of consumption contributed to the collapse of the centrally planned economies of the Soviet bloc. In Poland, the party-state followed a productivist model which occasionally paid lip-service to the consumer but which ultimately focused on the dictates of production. Yet, by 1981, there existed an organized consumer movement (Federacja Konsumentów) which emerged amidst the broader challenges to …
The Consumer Movement and Civil Society in Malaysia
This paper examines the consumer movement in Malaysia, especially the Consumers' Association of Penang and the Federation of Malaysian Consumer Associations. It traces their history from the late 1960s, through a period of rapid social and economic change associated with the New Economic Policy of the 1970s and 1980s. Partly because of the absence of other NGOs in Malaysia (due to government clampdowns on civil society), consumer groups were able…
Consumers and the State since the Second World War
In the twentieth century, consumption became a political project intimately bound up with the state. By the 1950s, governments across the world worked to promote a vision of consumer society based around access and participation—affluence for all—rather than choice and luxury for the few. This vision of consumerism was tied in with the geopolitics of the cold war but was also constitutive of other globalizing trends that connected not only Wester…
Chinese medicine men
The Death of a Consumer Society
This paper argues that the meaning of consumer society has changed over the last half century, principally through the prioritisation of choice over access. It does this through an examination of the global consumer movement and a consideration of its successes and failures. It demonstrates that through the movement's own tactics, and the defeats it suffered by opponents of regulation, its earlier emphasis on the right of consumers to enjoy basic…
NGOs in Contemporary Britain
Examining the history of social movements and non-state socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have proliferated in Britain since 1945, and how they have r
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