Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Biographic Data
| ID | 1239181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Florence |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |
| SIGNATURE | SUTCLIFFE-BRAITHWAITE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8114-6092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social infrastructure and ‘left-behind places’
We explore the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure (SI) in ‘left-behind places’ (LBPs) through a case study a former mining village in northern England. We address the understudied affective dimensions of ‘left-behindness’. Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading LBPs, our framework: strongly emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers LBPs as ‘moral commun…
Vernacular Discourses Of Gender Equality In The Post-War British Working Class
Why did women's roles change so dramatically in the West in the period after 1945? These years saw major changes in those roles, and in dominant understandings of female selfhood, from a model based on self-abnegation to one based on self-fulfilment. The roots of this shift have often been located in the post-1968 feminist movement and in economic change. Examining this question through the lens of Great Britain, this article, however, centres wo…
Reopen the Coal Mines’? Deindustrialisation and the Labour Party
Different groups on the left have invested a variety of cultural meanings in the image of the British miner and the mining community. Tracing these over time, this article suggests that mythologised images of the solidaristic miner and the ‘traditional’ mining community flatten and simplify our understanding of the past, and of change over time in Britain's coalfields in the era of deindustrialisation since the mid‐1950s. Oral history interviews …
Helen McCarthy, Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
Jack Saunders, Assembling Cultures: Workplace Activism, Labour Militancy and Cultural Change in Britain’s Car Factories, 1945–82
Jim Tomlinson. Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit
In Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit, Jim Tomlinson offers a distinctive new perspective on the economic history of postwar Britain. Starting from the understanding that the economy is not a “real” thing that is more or less accurately described by different models and statistics, but an artifact that is constructed—for more or less overtly political reasons—by those models …
Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present. By James Vernon
Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, by Robert Saunders
Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000
This book examines class identities and politics in late twentieth-century England. Class remained important to ‘ordinary’ people’s identities and their narratives about social change in this period, but in changing ways. Using self-narratives drawn from a wide range of sources, the book shows that many people felt that once-clear class boundaries had blurred since 1945. By the end of the period, ‘working-class’ was often seen as a historical ide…
Conclusion
The conclusion summarizes the overall arguments of the book, examining how vernacular discourses of class changed between 1968 and 2000, and what the implications were for politics. It argues that rather than searching for a decline or persistence of class identities in this period, it is more important to look at how discourses of class changed, and how class identities and political attitudes were transformed by the decline of deference. It als…
Mass Observers’ Attitudes to Class, 1990
This chapter uses responses to Mass Observation’s 1990 directive on ‘social divisions’ to examine what the Mass Observers thought about class. It concludes that earlier accounts have overstated these (largely middle-class) writers’ comfortableness with technical, sociological class language. Rather, many were hostile to or ambivalent about using such terms, and drew on popular culture, especially humour, when talking about class. A rejection of ‘…
Working-Class Autobiography, c.1970–1985
This chapter examines working-class autobiographies and oral history testimonies created in the 1970s by the ‘history from below’, oral history, and community publishing movements. It finds that most working-class autobiographers felt that class divisions had weakened and changed radically in the post-war years: they identified improvements in housing, the NHS, education, and the power of workers as key alterations. The disappearance of live-in d…
Class in the Millennium Memory Bank, 1998–2000
This chapter examines discourses of class in interviews for the Millennium Memory Bank, at the end of the 1990s. It finds similar themes to those traced in earlier chapters: ordinariness, authenticity, and ambivalence were prominent in interviewees’ testimonies—working-class, middle-class, and even upper-class. Many thought the idea of ‘classlessness’, as espoused by John Major, was attractive; none thought he had achieved this goal, but many did…
Seven Lives from Mass Observation, by James Hinton
This book by James Hinton follows his Nine Wartime Lives (2010) in its method, form and concerns. In that book, Hinton took nine of the individuals who kept diaries for Mass Observation (MO) during the Second World War, devoting nine chapters to biographical studies of each. A central theme of the book was the growth of currents of individualism and democratisation in British society: Hinton saw these diarists as in the vanguard of a developing s…
National Women Against Pit Closures: Gender, trade unionism and community activism in the miners’ strike, 1984–5
This article will offer the first historical assessment of the National Women Against Pit Closures movement. It shows that it was not a spontaneous formation but the result of work by a network of committed, long-time activists with strong connections to the left, including the Communist Party and the Women’s Liberation Movement. It will show how key questions caused divisions within the national organisation as it grew. In particular, activists …
Notices of Periodicals and Occasional Publications mainly from 2017
in response and riposte to Constantine's reshaped Christianity.Journal of Ecclesiastical History, lxviii The origins of the Vandals' reputation as persecutors of Catholicism in North Africa and Spain in the fifth century is convincingly reassessed by E. Fournier.Their conquest of Africa was initially understood as normal warfare, without religious motivation.Tentative suggestions by Augustine which provided a way to interpret the devastation in t…
Discourses of ‘class’ in Britain in ‘New Times’
In the 1980s, the New Times writers suggested that economic and cultural changes were ushering in an era where diverse identities were replacing ‘class’. This was a vision which the Labour Party feared, but which Margaret Thatcher embraced. In her rhetoric, she celebrated what she saw as a decline in the significance of class identities and distinctions. This article examines the place and meanings of ‘class’ in subjective accounts of ‘class’ in …
New Times revisited: Britain in the 1980s
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…
God and Mrs Thatcher: The Battle for Britain’s Soul
God and Mrs Thatcher: the Battle for Britain’s Soul." Contemporary British History, 31(3), pp. 473–474
Telling Stories about Post-war Britain: Popular Individualism and the 'Crisis' of the 1970s
This article argues that, by the 1970s, people in Britain were increasingly insistent about defining and claiming their individual rights, identities and perspectives. Using individual narratives and testimonies, we show that many were expressing desires for greater personal autonomy and self-determination. We suggest that this was an important trend across the post-war decades, and of particular importance to understanding the 1970s. This popula…
New Perspectives From Unstructured Interviews: Young Women, Gender, and Sexuality on the Isle of Sheppey in 1980
In the early 1980s, Ray Pahl, a sociologist at the University of Kent, and PhD student Claire Wallace conducted interviews examining young people's experiences of growing up, work, and unemployment on the Isle of Sheppey; these interviews are now deposited at the University of Essex, and this article examines how historians and others might reuse them to interrogate other subjects. The article examines one working-class young woman's ideas about …
Observing the 80s' http: Blogs.sussex.ac.uk/observingthe80s
Journal Article ‘Observing the 80s’ http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/observingthe80s/ Get access Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite * Clare College, University of Cambridge *Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 484–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwu016 Published: 08 April 20…
The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change, by Tim Bale
Journal Article The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change, by Tim Bale Get access The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change, by Tim Bale (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2012; pp. 327. £55). Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite St Catharine’s College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 538, June 2014, Page…
The Working Class in Mid Twentieth-Century England: Community, Identity and Social Memory. By Ben Jones
Journal Article The Working Class in Mid Twentieth-Century England: Community, Identity and Social Memory. By Ben Jones. Get access The Working Class in Mid Twentieth-Century England: Community, Identity and Social Memory. By Ben Jones. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2012. xvi + 262 pp. ISBN 9780719084737, £65 (hardback). Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite St Catharine's College, Cambridge Search for other wor…
Neo-Liberalism and Morality in the Making of Thatcherite Social Policy
After 1945, neo-liberal thinkers and think-tanks in the US and UK outlined different state welfare systems for the poor, such as Milton Friedman's negative income tax. These were underpinned by a rational, economistic conception of human nature. Between 1975 and 1979, Thatcher's Conservative party abandoned attempts to develop comprehensive, state-led, paternalistic schemes to tackle poverty. Thatcherites focused instead on creating what they saw…
Telling Stories about Post-war Britain: Popular Individualism and the 'Crisis' of the 1970s
This article argues that, by the 1970s, people in Britain were increasingly insistent about defining and claiming their individual rights, identities and perspectives. Using individual narratives and testimonies, we show that many were expressing desires for greater personal autonomy and self-determination. We suggest that this was an important trend across the post-war decades, and of particular importance to understanding the 1970s. This popula…
Neo-Liberalism and Morality in the Making of Thatcherite Social Policy
After 1945, neo-liberal thinkers and think-tanks in the US and UK outlined different state welfare systems for the poor, such as Milton Friedman's negative income tax. These were underpinned by a rational, economistic conception of human nature. Between 1975 and 1979, Thatcher's Conservative party abandoned attempts to develop comprehensive, state-led, paternalistic schemes to tackle poverty. Thatcherites focused instead on creating what they saw…
Social infrastructure and ‘left-behind places’
We explore the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure (SI) in ‘left-behind places’ (LBPs) through a case study a former mining village in northern England. We address the understudied affective dimensions of ‘left-behindness’. Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading LBPs, our framework: strongly emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers LBPs as ‘moral commun…
National Women Against Pit Closures: Gender, trade unionism and community activism in the miners’ strike, 1984–5
This article will offer the first historical assessment of the National Women Against Pit Closures movement. It shows that it was not a spontaneous formation but the result of work by a network of committed, long-time activists with strong connections to the left, including the Communist Party and the Women’s Liberation Movement. It will show how key questions caused divisions within the national organisation as it grew. In particular, activists …
Reopen the Coal Mines’? Deindustrialisation and the Labour Party
Different groups on the left have invested a variety of cultural meanings in the image of the British miner and the mining community. Tracing these over time, this article suggests that mythologised images of the solidaristic miner and the ‘traditional’ mining community flatten and simplify our understanding of the past, and of change over time in Britain's coalfields in the era of deindustrialisation since the mid‐1950s. Oral history interviews …
Vernacular Discourses Of Gender Equality In The Post-War British Working Class
Why did women's roles change so dramatically in the West in the period after 1945? These years saw major changes in those roles, and in dominant understandings of female selfhood, from a model based on self-abnegation to one based on self-fulfilment. The roots of this shift have often been located in the post-1968 feminist movement and in economic change. Examining this question through the lens of Great Britain, this article, however, centres wo…
New Times revisited: Britain in the 1980s
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…
Discourses of ‘class’ in Britain in ‘New Times’
In the 1980s, the New Times writers suggested that economic and cultural changes were ushering in an era where diverse identities were replacing ‘class’. This was a vision which the Labour Party feared, but which Margaret Thatcher embraced. In her rhetoric, she celebrated what she saw as a decline in the significance of class identities and distinctions. This article examines the place and meanings of ‘class’ in subjective accounts of ‘class’ in …
New Perspectives From Unstructured Interviews: Young Women, Gender, and Sexuality on the Isle of Sheppey in 1980
In the early 1980s, Ray Pahl, a sociologist at the University of Kent, and PhD student Claire Wallace conducted interviews examining young people's experiences of growing up, work, and unemployment on the Isle of Sheppey; these interviews are now deposited at the University of Essex, and this article examines how historians and others might reuse them to interrogate other subjects. The article examines one working-class young woman's ideas about …
Observing the 80s' http: Blogs.sussex.ac.uk/observingthe80s
Journal Article ‘Observing the 80s’ http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/observingthe80s/ Get access Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite * Clare College, University of Cambridge *Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 484–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwu016 Published: 08 April 20…
The Working Class in Mid Twentieth-Century England: Community, Identity and Social Memory. By Ben Jones
Journal Article The Working Class in Mid Twentieth-Century England: Community, Identity and Social Memory. By Ben Jones. Get access The Working Class in Mid Twentieth-Century England: Community, Identity and Social Memory. By Ben Jones. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2012. xvi + 262 pp. ISBN 9780719084737, £65 (hardback). Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite St Catharine's College, Cambridge Search for other wor…
Neo-Liberalism and Morality in the Making of Thatcherite Social Policy
After 1945, neo-liberal thinkers and think-tanks in the US and UK outlined different state welfare systems for the poor, such as Milton Friedman's negative income tax. These were underpinned by a rational, economistic conception of human nature. Between 1975 and 1979, Thatcher's Conservative party abandoned attempts to develop comprehensive, state-led, paternalistic schemes to tackle poverty. Thatcherites focused instead on creating what they saw…
Observing the 80s' http: Blogs.sussex.ac.uk/observingthe80s
Journal Article ‘Observing the 80s’ http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/observingthe80s/ Get access Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite * Clare College, University of Cambridge *Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 484–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwu016 Published: 08 April 20…
The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change, by Tim Bale
Journal Article The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change, by Tim Bale Get access The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change, by Tim Bale (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2012; pp. 327. £55). Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite St Catharine’s College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 538, June 2014, Page…
New Perspectives From Unstructured Interviews: Young Women, Gender, and Sexuality on the Isle of Sheppey in 1980
In the early 1980s, Ray Pahl, a sociologist at the University of Kent, and PhD student Claire Wallace conducted interviews examining young people's experiences of growing up, work, and unemployment on the Isle of Sheppey; these interviews are now deposited at the University of Essex, and this article examines how historians and others might reuse them to interrogate other subjects. The article examines one working-class young woman's ideas about …
Discourses of ‘class’ in Britain in ‘New Times’
In the 1980s, the New Times writers suggested that economic and cultural changes were ushering in an era where diverse identities were replacing ‘class’. This was a vision which the Labour Party feared, but which Margaret Thatcher embraced. In her rhetoric, she celebrated what she saw as a decline in the significance of class identities and distinctions. This article examines the place and meanings of ‘class’ in subjective accounts of ‘class’ in …
New Times revisited: Britain in the 1980s
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…
God and Mrs Thatcher: The Battle for Britain’s Soul
God and Mrs Thatcher: the Battle for Britain’s Soul." Contemporary British History, 31(3), pp. 473–474
Telling Stories about Post-war Britain: Popular Individualism and the 'Crisis' of the 1970s
This article argues that, by the 1970s, people in Britain were increasingly insistent about defining and claiming their individual rights, identities and perspectives. Using individual narratives and testimonies, we show that many were expressing desires for greater personal autonomy and self-determination. We suggest that this was an important trend across the post-war decades, and of particular importance to understanding the 1970s. This popula…
Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000
This book examines class identities and politics in late twentieth-century England. Class remained important to ‘ordinary’ people’s identities and their narratives about social change in this period, but in changing ways. Using self-narratives drawn from a wide range of sources, the book shows that many people felt that once-clear class boundaries had blurred since 1945. By the end of the period, ‘working-class’ was often seen as a historical ide…
Conclusion
The conclusion summarizes the overall arguments of the book, examining how vernacular discourses of class changed between 1968 and 2000, and what the implications were for politics. It argues that rather than searching for a decline or persistence of class identities in this period, it is more important to look at how discourses of class changed, and how class identities and political attitudes were transformed by the decline of deference. It als…
Mass Observers’ Attitudes to Class, 1990
This chapter uses responses to Mass Observation’s 1990 directive on ‘social divisions’ to examine what the Mass Observers thought about class. It concludes that earlier accounts have overstated these (largely middle-class) writers’ comfortableness with technical, sociological class language. Rather, many were hostile to or ambivalent about using such terms, and drew on popular culture, especially humour, when talking about class. A rejection of ‘…
Working-Class Autobiography, c.1970–1985
This chapter examines working-class autobiographies and oral history testimonies created in the 1970s by the ‘history from below’, oral history, and community publishing movements. It finds that most working-class autobiographers felt that class divisions had weakened and changed radically in the post-war years: they identified improvements in housing, the NHS, education, and the power of workers as key alterations. The disappearance of live-in d…
Class in the Millennium Memory Bank, 1998–2000
This chapter examines discourses of class in interviews for the Millennium Memory Bank, at the end of the 1990s. It finds similar themes to those traced in earlier chapters: ordinariness, authenticity, and ambivalence were prominent in interviewees’ testimonies—working-class, middle-class, and even upper-class. Many thought the idea of ‘classlessness’, as espoused by John Major, was attractive; none thought he had achieved this goal, but many did…
Seven Lives from Mass Observation, by James Hinton
This book by James Hinton follows his Nine Wartime Lives (2010) in its method, form and concerns. In that book, Hinton took nine of the individuals who kept diaries for Mass Observation (MO) during the Second World War, devoting nine chapters to biographical studies of each. A central theme of the book was the growth of currents of individualism and democratisation in British society: Hinton saw these diarists as in the vanguard of a developing s…
National Women Against Pit Closures: Gender, trade unionism and community activism in the miners’ strike, 1984–5
This article will offer the first historical assessment of the National Women Against Pit Closures movement. It shows that it was not a spontaneous formation but the result of work by a network of committed, long-time activists with strong connections to the left, including the Communist Party and the Women’s Liberation Movement. It will show how key questions caused divisions within the national organisation as it grew. In particular, activists …
Notices of Periodicals and Occasional Publications mainly from 2017
in response and riposte to Constantine's reshaped Christianity.Journal of Ecclesiastical History, lxviii The origins of the Vandals' reputation as persecutors of Catholicism in North Africa and Spain in the fifth century is convincingly reassessed by E. Fournier.Their conquest of Africa was initially understood as normal warfare, without religious motivation.Tentative suggestions by Augustine which provided a way to interpret the devastation in t…
Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present. By James Vernon
Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, by Robert Saunders
Jack Saunders, Assembling Cultures: Workplace Activism, Labour Militancy and Cultural Change in Britain’s Car Factories, 1945–82
Jim Tomlinson. Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit
In Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit, Jim Tomlinson offers a distinctive new perspective on the economic history of postwar Britain. Starting from the understanding that the economy is not a “real” thing that is more or less accurately described by different models and statistics, but an artifact that is constructed—for more or less overtly political reasons—by those models …
Reopen the Coal Mines’? Deindustrialisation and the Labour Party
Different groups on the left have invested a variety of cultural meanings in the image of the British miner and the mining community. Tracing these over time, this article suggests that mythologised images of the solidaristic miner and the ‘traditional’ mining community flatten and simplify our understanding of the past, and of change over time in Britain's coalfields in the era of deindustrialisation since the mid‐1950s. Oral history interviews …
Helen McCarthy, Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
Vernacular Discourses Of Gender Equality In The Post-War British Working Class
Why did women's roles change so dramatically in the West in the period after 1945? These years saw major changes in those roles, and in dominant understandings of female selfhood, from a model based on self-abnegation to one based on self-fulfilment. The roots of this shift have often been located in the post-1968 feminist movement and in economic change. Examining this question through the lens of Great Britain, this article, however, centres wo…
Social infrastructure and ‘left-behind places’
We explore the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure (SI) in ‘left-behind places’ (LBPs) through a case study a former mining village in northern England. We address the understudied affective dimensions of ‘left-behindness’. Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading LBPs, our framework: strongly emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers LBPs as ‘moral commun…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (15 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (11 works) · History (10 works) · History (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works)