Helen N J McCarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 10325702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen N J McCarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen N J |
| FAMILY NAME | McCarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTHY H N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0340-6490 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond the end of history: Rethinking Britain’s nineties
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,…
Women’s international thought: A new field
Women on the Front Line: British Servicewomen’s Path to Combat. By Kathleen Sherit
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: Negotiating citizenship and mobility in times of crisis
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…
Pearl Jephcott and the politics of gender, class and race in post-war Britain
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
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…
The symbolic and practical significance of dual citizenship: Spanish-Colombians and Spanish-Ecuadorians in Madrid and London
Women, Marriage and Paid Work in Post-war Britain
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: Theory, Practice and Experience
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: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
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
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…
Lord Robert Cecil: Politician and Internationalist
As Gaynor Johnson notes in the opening sentence of this most welcome biography of Lord Robert Cecil, later Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, any historian of British politics in the first half of the twe
The Diplomatic History of Global Women's Rights: The British Foreign Office and International Women's Year, 1975
This article explores the British Foreign Office's engagement with International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, an event which has been viewed as a milestone in histories of transnational feminist activism, and a moment when the status of women became part of mainstream thinking about development, human rights and global security. Much of the existing literature on IWY dwells on the role of non-state actors, especially women's NGOs active at the Uni…
The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain . By Sarah Richardson
A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain: Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945, by Matthew Hilton, Nick Crowson, Jean-François Mouhot and James McKay
Since 2005, a group of researchers based at the University of Birmingham has been on a mission to put history at the heart of contemporary debates concerning Britain’s large and diverse voluntary sector. Whether dubbed ‘civil society’, ‘third sector’, or, in David Cameron’s more recent formulation, ‘the Big Society’, the realm of activity lying between citizen, state and market has captured the imagination of politicians over past decades as they…
Leading from the Centre: The League of Nations Union, Foreign Policy and ‘Political Agreement’ in the 1930s
This article locates the New Party in the wider context of centrist and cross-party groupings in the 1930s. By focusing on the work of one such group, the liberal-internationalist League of Nations Union (LNU), the article explores the manner in which Mosley's project both embraced and rejected the 'political agreement' of that decade. In common with other centrist bodies, the New Party pursued a 'middle way' between socialism and capitalism in r…
Service clubs, citizenship and equality: Gender relations and middle-class associations in Britain between the wars
Journal Article Service clubs, citizenship and equality: gender relations and middle-class associations in Britain between the wars Get access Helen McCarthy Helen McCarthy Institute of Historical Research, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 81, Issue 213, August 2008, Pages 531–552, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2007.00433.x Published: 09 July 2008
Parties, Voluntary Associations, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Britain
The achievement of universal suffrage after 1918 stimulated new forms of democratic participation in Britain. These decades witnessed not only renewed efforts by political parties to mobilize the mass electorate, but also the establishment of new kinds of civic association, often secular in character, strongly invested in a discourse of active citizenship, and committed to creating and defending a space within associational life which was free of…
Parties, Voluntary Associations, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Britain
The achievement of universal suffrage after 1918 stimulated new forms of democratic participation in Britain. These decades witnessed not only renewed efforts by political parties to mobilize the mass electorate, but also the establishment of new kinds of civic association, often secular in character, strongly invested in a discourse of active citizenship, and committed to creating and defending a space within associational life which was free of…
Spanish nationals' future plans in the context of B rexit
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…
The symbolic and practical significance of dual citizenship: Spanish-Colombians and Spanish-Ecuadorians in Madrid and London
Onward migration of Latin American families: Negotiating citizenship and mobility in times of crisis
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…
Social Science and Married Women's Employment in Post-War Britain
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…
Women, Marriage and Paid Work in Post-war Britain
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…
Pearl Jephcott and the politics of gender, class and race in post-war Britain
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…
The Diplomatic History of Global Women's Rights: The British Foreign Office and International Women's Year, 1975
This article explores the British Foreign Office's engagement with International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, an event which has been viewed as a milestone in histories of transnational feminist activism, and a moment when the status of women became part of mainstream thinking about development, human rights and global security. Much of the existing literature on IWY dwells on the role of non-state actors, especially women's NGOs active at the Uni…
Leading from the Centre: The League of Nations Union, Foreign Policy and ‘Political Agreement’ in the 1930s
This article locates the New Party in the wider context of centrist and cross-party groupings in the 1930s. By focusing on the work of one such group, the liberal-internationalist League of Nations Union (LNU), the article explores the manner in which Mosley's project both embraced and rejected the 'political agreement' of that decade. In common with other centrist bodies, the New Party pursued a 'middle way' between socialism and capitalism in r…
Service clubs, citizenship and equality: Gender relations and middle-class associations in Britain between the wars
Journal Article Service clubs, citizenship and equality: gender relations and middle-class associations in Britain between the wars Get access Helen McCarthy Helen McCarthy Institute of Historical Research, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 81, Issue 213, August 2008, Pages 531–552, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2007.00433.x Published: 09 July 2008
Parties, Voluntary Associations, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Britain
The achievement of universal suffrage after 1918 stimulated new forms of democratic participation in Britain. These decades witnessed not only renewed efforts by political parties to mobilize the mass electorate, but also the establishment of new kinds of civic association, often secular in character, strongly invested in a discourse of active citizenship, and committed to creating and defending a space within associational life which was free of…
Service clubs, citizenship and equality: Gender relations and middle-class associations in Britain between the wars
Journal Article Service clubs, citizenship and equality: gender relations and middle-class associations in Britain between the wars Get access Helen McCarthy Helen McCarthy Institute of Historical Research, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 81, Issue 213, August 2008, Pages 531–552, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2007.00433.x Published: 09 July 2008
Leading from the Centre: The League of Nations Union, Foreign Policy and ‘Political Agreement’ in the 1930s
This article locates the New Party in the wider context of centrist and cross-party groupings in the 1930s. By focusing on the work of one such group, the liberal-internationalist League of Nations Union (LNU), the article explores the manner in which Mosley's project both embraced and rejected the 'political agreement' of that decade. In common with other centrist bodies, the New Party pursued a 'middle way' between socialism and capitalism in r…
The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain . By Sarah Richardson
A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain: Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945, by Matthew Hilton, Nick Crowson, Jean-François Mouhot and James McKay
Since 2005, a group of researchers based at the University of Birmingham has been on a mission to put history at the heart of contemporary debates concerning Britain’s large and diverse voluntary sector. Whether dubbed ‘civil society’, ‘third sector’, or, in David Cameron’s more recent formulation, ‘the Big Society’, the realm of activity lying between citizen, state and market has captured the imagination of politicians over past decades as they…
Lord Robert Cecil: Politician and Internationalist
As Gaynor Johnson notes in the opening sentence of this most welcome biography of Lord Robert Cecil, later Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, any historian of British politics in the first half of the twe
The Diplomatic History of Global Women's Rights: The British Foreign Office and International Women's Year, 1975
This article explores the British Foreign Office's engagement with International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, an event which has been viewed as a milestone in histories of transnational feminist activism, and a moment when the status of women became part of mainstream thinking about development, human rights and global security. Much of the existing literature on IWY dwells on the role of non-state actors, especially women's NGOs active at the Uni…
Pre-School Childcare in England, 1939–2010: Theory, Practice and Experience
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: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
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
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…
Women, Marriage and Paid Work in Post-war Britain
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…
Spanish nationals' future plans in the context of B rexit
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…
The symbolic and practical significance of dual citizenship: Spanish-Colombians and Spanish-Ecuadorians in Madrid and London
Pearl Jephcott and the politics of gender, class and race in post-war Britain
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…
Women on the Front Line: British Servicewomen’s Path to Combat. By Kathleen Sherit
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: Negotiating citizenship and mobility in times of crisis
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…
Women’s international thought: A new field
Beyond the end of history: Rethinking Britain’s nineties
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,…
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