Pat Thane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pat Thane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pat |
| FAMILY NAME | Thane |
| SIGNATURE | THANE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 77 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gisela Bock (1942-2025): Leading historian of women's and gender history
Afterword
When the UK branch of the growing international Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) developed from 1969 it showed little awareness of the history of UK women’s movements, especially in the recent pas
Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics
Afterword: Biography and Humanitarianism
This ‘Afterword’ summarises the main themes of the papers, especially the motivation for international humanitarianism and the difficulty of researching it given the paucity of sources, as is all too common with the histories of mainly female activities. Nevertheless, the authors have successfully achieved invaluable analyses of the lives of a fascinating variety of women, and one man, working for deprived people across the world
Well-bred and conventional ladies: The National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland/Northern Ireland
This is the first survey of the NCW of Great Britain in the context of wider women’s movements to which it was a major contributor. Founded in 1895 as an organization of middle-class, mainly but not exclusively Christian, women active in voluntary work helping the poor, it was also committed to improved education and work opportunities and conditions for women of all classes. It was affiliated to ICW in 1898. Its range of interests expanded as it…
Lawyers for the Poor: Legal Advice, Voluntary Action and Citizenship in England, 1890–1990, by Kate Bradley
This is the first survey of the history of legal advice services in England for people who could not afford to pay for them, from their origins in the voluntary sector in the late nineteenth century through to the period after 1945 when state subsidy was at its (incomplete) peak, before the recent severe cuts. Valuably, it explores not only the institutions but, so far as sources allow, the needs and experiences of their users. Concern about soci…
John Bew, Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
To Understand All Life as Fragile, Valuable, and Interdependent
As old age garners more attention in the time of COVID-19, this roundtable discussion brings together scholars from three different areas within aging studies to define the field's terms and map out some of its contours and potential future directions. Stephen Katz draws on poststructuralist theory, feminism, and theories of materiality and embodiment in his historically informed work in critical gerontology. Kavita Sivaramakrishnan's research in…
Philip Stephens: Britain Alone. The Path from Suez to Brexit
Old Age in European Cultures: A Significant Presence from Antiquity to the Present
Contrary to widespread belief, significant numbers of people have lived long lives throughout recorded history. On average, women have lived longer than men. Definitions of old age as beginning between the ages of sixty and seventy have been remarkably consistent through time, despite major social and economic changes, as has government enforcement of age-related regulations, increasingly as government bureaucracy grew from the eighteenth to the …
Nancy Astor, Women and Politics, 1919–1945
Nancy Astor was the first woman elected to the House of Commons, in 1919. She succeeded her husband in his Plymouth constituency when he inherited a seat in the House of Lords, so avoided the discrimination which for decades prevented the selection of many women for winnable seats. She was not a suffragist, or, when elected, a feminist, but the hostility of many men, in and out of parliament, to her presence in the Commons stimulated her support …
Afterword: Challenging women in the British professions
Places the first women lawyers in the context of the experiences of women in other professions in Britain as their access gradually grew, also within the wider history of women and women’s movements, including for the vote, in the time period covered by these articles. It examines the challenges women faced in all professions and in the wider world, especially of sexist discrimination, and how they themselves challenged them, increasingly with pr…
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan. As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan’s As the World Ages is a pioneering study of how the aging of populations, which has become a worldwide phenomenon over the past seventy years, has been perceived and responded to by demographers, doctors, social scientists, humanitarian campaigners, and politicians in the very different environments from Europe and the United States to Africa and Asia. It raises important questions. Modern concerns about “old age” became …
The Origins of the British Welfare State
George Boyer's The Winding Road to the Welfare State, which traces the shift in Britain from the early nineteenth-century Poor Law to the post-1945 welfare state, is strongest and most useful in its analysis of the labor market in relation to poverty and insecurity and in its precise quantification of wages, poverty, insecurity, and public relief. It is much weaker when discussing how politics and public opinion shaped social policies; overlookin…
The Origins of British Social Policy
Gender in the Public Workplace
It is well known, in outline, that the employment opportunities of unmarried middle-class women expanded in the first half of the twentieth century, though by no means to equal those of men. But, apart from excellent work on schoolteachers by Alison Oram and Dina Copelman and on the much smaller population of university teachers by Carol Dyhouse, there are few detailed studies of their experiences and their responses to them.1 These books by Glew…
The History of Families and Households: Comparative European Dimensions
The Foundations of the Welfare State
A fully revised and rewritten second edition of a book which is now regarded as a classic. Takes full advantage of new research and places strong emphasis on voluntary action and the role of women in the shaping of social policy.It retains the excellent historical perspective that makes it unique among its competitors, comparing recent policy changes to pre-1950 welfare policy.
The history of families and households: Comparative European dimensions
Contemporary History
Barbara Wootton (1897-1988): Pioneering Social Scientist, Feminist and Policymaker
This article briefly surveys the life and work of Barbara Wootton, who made an outstanding contribution to the social sciences and to public life, and to the connection between the two, between the 1920s and 1980s, but is too little remembered now. She campaigned for the parliamentary vote for women, for equality in public life when women had the vote, for equal pay, abortion, abolition of capital punishment, homosexual law reform, reform of the …
Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse: Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia and Britain
Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day, by Stephen Brooke
The Labour government of 1966–70 saw the introduction of a remarkable run of liberal legislation—legalising abortion and, in a limited way, homosexuality, reforming divorce, abolishing capital punishment and theatre censorship, and easing access to birth control. Its successors between 1997 and 2010 also had an impressive, all too often unremarked, record, including equalising the age of consent for same-sex with heterosexual relationships, intro…
The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation. From Fornicators to Family, 1600-2010
The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation. From Fornicators to Family, 1600–2010. 2012. By REBECCA PROBERT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Law in Context). Pp. xxii+297. £123.75. ISBN
Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 18802-1950s
1. Voluntary motherhood 1900-1930 - theories and politics of a Norwegian feminist in an international perspective, Ida Blom 2. Family welfare, which policy? - Norway's road to child allowances, Anne-Lise Seip and Hilde Ibsen 3. The invisible child? - The struggle for a Social Democratic family policy in Sweden, 1900-1960s, Anne-Sofie Ohlander 4. Models of equality for women - the case of state support for children in 20th-century Britain, Jane Le…
The Working Class and State ‘Welfare’ in Britain, 1880–1914
Some years ago Henry Pelling offered one of his stimulating and provocative challenges to a conventional wisdom of labour history. He pointed out that it is often assumed that the significant extensions of the welfare activities of the state by the post-1906 Liberal governments were in some way associated with the growth of the organized labour movement; that they were, if not simply responses to pressure from Labour (which has rarely been seriou…
Women and the Poor Law in Victorian and Edwardian England
Women and the Poor Law in Victorian and Edwardian England Get access Pat Thane Pat Thane Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1978, Pages 29–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/6.1.29 Published: 01 October 1978
Secondary Analysis of Dennis Marsden Mothers Alone
A secondary analysis has been made of 116 interviews with unmarried mothers carried out by Dennis Marsden in the mid-1960s. These are now held at ESDS Qualidata, University of Essex. They are being used in a wider study of unmarried motherhood in Britain since 1918. There are significant differences in research practices then and now: the interviewer did not obtain the interviewees consent to use the interviews in his research; the interviews wer…
The Growing Burden of an Ageing Population
In most economically developed societies at present there is an active debate about the implications of the growing proportion of their populations who are elderly. In most such countries the changing age structure is seen in almost entirely negative terms. This paper argues for a less pessimistic approach. The transition to an older population will be gradual enough to allow time to plan. The importance of the shift in the so-called ‘dependency …
Michael Young and Welfare
Financiers and the British State: The Case of Sir Ernest Cassel
(1986). Financiers and the British State: The Case of Sir Ernest Cassel. Business History: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 80-99
Nancy Astor, Women and Politics, 1919–1945
Nancy Astor was the first woman elected to the House of Commons, in 1919. She succeeded her husband in his Plymouth constituency when he inherited a seat in the House of Lords, so avoided the discrimination which for decades prevented the selection of many women for winnable seats. She was not a suffragist, or, when elected, a feminist, but the hostility of many men, in and out of parliament, to her presence in the Commons stimulated her support …
History and the Sociology of Ageing
Journal Article History and the Sociology of Ageing Get access Chris Phillipson and Alan Walker (eds. ), Ageing and Social Policy. A Critical Assessment, London: Gower, 1986. £22.50; £9.95 (pbk). Pp. xiv + 334. ISBN 0-566-05218-0; 0-566-00902-1. PAT THANE PAT THANE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 2, Issue 1, April 1989, Pages 93–96, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/2.1.…
Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England
This article explores the experiences of unmarried mothers who kept and tried to raise their children between World War One and the end of the twentieth century. It argues that there has not been a simple progression from their experiencing social stigma and ostracism to more enlightened attitudes since the 1970s. Rather there is a great deal that has hitherto been unknown about what the evidence suggests were very diverse experiences and attitud…
The Power of the past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm
Introduction: Capitalism and its pre-capitalist heritage Pat Thane and Geoffrey Crossick 1. The politics of class struggle in the history of society: an appraisal of the work of Eric Hobsbawm Eugene D. Genovese 2. Working class and sociability in France before 1848 Maurice Agulhon 3. Men and women in the Parisian garment trades: discussions of family and work in the 1830s and 1840s Joan Wallach Scott 4. Craft traditions and the labour movement in…
The Origins of British Social Policy
Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse: Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia and Britain
The Rise of Professional Society: England Since 1880
The Incidence of Civil Marriage in Victorian England and Wales
Roderick Floud, Pat Thane; THE INCIDENCE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND WALES*, Past & Present, Volume 84, Issue 1, 1 August 1979, Pages 146–15
Nineteenth Century Society: Essay in the Use of Quantitative Methods for the Study of Social Data
Craft Unions, Welfare Benefits, and the Case for Trade Union Law Reform, 1867-75: A Comment
Craft Unions, Welfare Benefits, and the Case for Trade Union Law Reform, 1867–75: A Comment
The Political Economy of Housing Workshop
The Political Economy of Housing Workshop Get access Pat Thane Pat Thane Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1, SPRING 1976, Pages 267–270, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1.1.267 Published: 01 March 1976
Short Notices
Allen G. Debus (ed.), Medicine in Seventeenth Century England. A Symposium Held at UCLA in Honor of C. D. O'Malley (1974), xiii+485 (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, £8.50). R. Quinault and J. Stevenson (eds.), Popular Protest and Public Order (1974), 242 (Allen and Unwin, £5.25). Michael S. Cross (ed.), The Workingman in the Nineteenth Century (1975), xii+316 (Oxford University Press, Toronto, paperback £3.80). C…
Women and the Poor Law in Victorian and Edwardian England
Women and the Poor Law in Victorian and Edwardian England Get access Pat Thane Pat Thane Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1978, Pages 29–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/6.1.29 Published: 01 October 1978
The Origins of British Social Policy
Short notices
Michael Freeden, The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform (1978), xi+291 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £10.00). D. W. Howell, Land and People in Nineteenth‐Century Wales (1977), xv+207 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, £6.95). Murray Tolmie, The Triumph of the Saints: The Separate Churches of London 1616–1649 (1977), xii+251 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £9.00). George Huppert, Les Bourgeois Gentilshommes. An Essay on the Definition of Élite…
The Incidence of Civil Marriage in Victorian England and Wales
Roderick Floud, Pat Thane; THE INCIDENCE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND WALES*, Past & Present, Volume 84, Issue 1, 1 August 1979, Pages 146–15
Health Care as Social History: The Glasgow Case (Book)
Population and Society in Britain, 1850-1980
This volume contains a selection of essays by different authors. The essays have as a common theme the role of demographic change since the mid-nineteenth century in explaining some of the topics of present-day social concern in Britain. Chapters are included on unemployment and its relationship with resources and population factors changing conditions for children regional and temporal variations in household structure the decline in mortality i…
The Working Class and State ‘Welfare’ in Britain, 1880–1914
Some years ago Henry Pelling offered one of his stimulating and provocative challenges to a conventional wisdom of labour history. He pointed out that it is often assumed that the significant extensions of the welfare activities of the state by the post-1906 Liberal governments were in some way associated with the growth of the organized labour movement; that they were, if not simply responses to pressure from Labour (which has rarely been seriou…
Aging in Early Industrial Society: Work, Family and Social Policy in Nineteenth Century England
Short notices
Euan Cameron, The Reformation of the Heretics: The Waldenses of the Alps, 1480–1580 (1984), xviii+291 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £22.50). Ruth McClure, Coram's Children: The London Foundling Hospitalin the Eighteenth Century (1981), xiii+321 (Yale University Press, New Haven, £15.00). Anthony S. Wohl, Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain (1983), 440 (J. M. Dent & Sons, £17.50). Melanie Tebbutt, Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Wor…
The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm
The Curious Weakness of British Sociological Theory
Marxist History
Financiers and the British State: The Case of Sir Ernest Cassel
(1986). Financiers and the British State: The Case of Sir Ernest Cassel. Business History: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 80-99
The Power of the past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm
Introduction: Capitalism and its pre-capitalist heritage Pat Thane and Geoffrey Crossick 1. The politics of class struggle in the history of society: an appraisal of the work of Eric Hobsbawm Eugene D. Genovese 2. Working class and sociability in France before 1848 Maurice Agulhon 3. Men and women in the Parisian garment trades: discussions of family and work in the 1830s and 1840s Joan Wallach Scott 4. Craft traditions and the labour movement in…
Short notices
David Herlihy, Medieval Households (1985), vii + 227 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., £23#lb50, paperback £8#lb95). Peter Blickle, Gemeindereformation. Die Menschen des 16. Jahrhunderts auf dem Weg zum Heil (1985), 234 (Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, DM 88). [Communal Reformation. People of the Sixteenth Century on the Road to Salvation.] Giovanni Levi, L'eredità immateriale: camera di un esorcista nel Piemonte del seicento (1985), 202 (E…
Short reviews
Anthony D. Smith, THE ETHNIC ORIGINS OF NATIONS, Basil Blackwell, 1986, xviii + 312pp. £25. Barry Troyna and Jenny Williams, RACISM, EDUCATION AND THE STATE, Croom Helm, 1986, 138 pp., £6.95 Madan Sarup, THE POLITICS OF MULTIRACIAL EDUCATION, Routledge, 1986, 140 pp., £6.95. Elvi Whittaker, THE MAINLAND HAOLE: THE WHITE EXPERIENCE IN HAWAII. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, 223 pp., $25 Silvia Pedraza‐Bailey. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MIGR…
The Growing Burden of an Ageing Population
In most economically developed societies at present there is an active debate about the implications of the growing proportion of their populations who are elderly. In most such countries the changing age structure is seen in almost entirely negative terms. This paper argues for a less pessimistic approach. The transition to an older population will be gradual enough to allow time to plan. The importance of the shift in the so-called ‘dependency …
Madness, Morality and Medicine: A Study of the York Retreat, 1796-1914
Essays in Social History, Volume 2
Life and Labour in a Twentieth Century City. The Experience of Coventry
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