Frank Mort
Biographic Data
| ID | 366211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Mort |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Mort |
| SIGNATURE | MORT F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Divided Kingdom. A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present. By Pat Thane
Accessible sovereignty
Historians have argued that the Great War crystalized the idea of a modern popular monarchy in Britain and across the British imperial world. This version of sovereignty successfully negotiated the wartime crises of resurgent republicanism and the nationalisms that toppled other dynasties across Europe. Yet the story has largely been told ‘from above’. The article draws on the extensive and under-examined testimony of soldiers and nurses from Aus…
Safe for Democracy
How did the British monarchy respond to the multiple challenges of early twentieth-century mass democracy? Historians have separated the growth of constitutional sovereignty from the practice of a welfare monarchy, or from royalty as decorative and media friendly. This article argues that the political transformation of the modern monarchy was inseparable from innovations to its style and presentation. Opening with the dramatic constitutional cri…
On Tour with the Prince
The stage managers of ritual and the media transformed the British monarchy in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, consolidating its image as splendid and popular and also as more accessible and quasi-democratic. Historians have emphasized that these processes of modernization largely began in Britain. This article locates the origins of democratized royal ritual in the white dominions, especially after 1918. Canada, Australia and Ne…
Victorian Afterlives
My paper is framed as a retrospective, because I am addressing the ‘After’ part of our discussions on ‘Victorian Sexualities and After’. Specifically, what were the consequences of nineteenth-century regimes of sexuality for subsequent periods and especially for the 1960s and 1970s? I address this in two ways, both of which are unashamedly personal but in a historicized sense. First, I offer my memories of beginning to research Victorian society …
Cultures of Consumption
Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality.
Love in a Cold Climate
To what extent did the abdication of Edward VIII represent a significant turning point both in the history of constitutional monarchy and in the relationship between public and private morality in inter-war Britain? Letters written to the King and to other key players in the affair provide evidence of the disputed nature of media-influenced public opinion during the 1930s. But it is also argued that this correspondence points to the psychological…
The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2010 * The Permissive Society Revisited
It is an honour to be asked to lecture in memory of Ben Pimlott.1 Half a generation older than myself, he represents two different strands of modern British political and social history. Firstly, the passionate chronicler of Labour and labourism and secondly the distinguished biographer of a series of major public figures from Hugh Dalton to the Queen. In his role as biographer, Ben used the form to explore not only the 'human drama' of powerful …
Intellectual Pluralism and the Future of British History
This article argues that modern British history has become increasingly pluralistic as a result of intellectual and political shifts occurring since the 1960s. Gareth Stedman Jones’s own career has been exemplary in his commitment to a conceptually sophisticated pluralism, an approach that is also reinforced by the contributors to the edited collection, Structures and Transformations (2011), who emphasize the contingency of historical perspective…
The spaces of the modern city
By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. "The Spaces of the Modern City" historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the ci…
Striptease
On a rainy Friday evening in the autumn of 1961 a young policeman turned into Walker's Court, off Soho's Brewer Street in London's West End, and went into a strip club, advertised from the street w
Competing Domains
I should like to thank Frank Trentmann, Peter Thompson and Chris Waters for their helpful comments on this piece.Every quarter the Henley Centre for Forecasting, a prestige marketing organization specializing in long-term planning for the consumer industries, publishes its survey of leisure in the U
Scandalous Events
Historians of the sexual and cultural changes associated with the "permissive" moment of the 1960s have tended to emphasize a progressive narrative of reform focused on national policies and their social outcomes. This article explores a diffierent dynamic, highlighting the ways in which a series of scandalous and transgressive events, associated with particular networks of metropolitan culture in London, played a significant role in reshaping se…
Transforming Metropolitan London, 1750–1960
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Fantasies of Metropolitan Life
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Dangerous Sexualities
Dangerous Sexualities takes a look at how our ideas of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex. Beginning in the 1830s, Frank Mort relates his social historical narratives to the sexual choices and possibilities facing us now.This long-awaited second edition has been thoroughly updated to include new discussions of eugenics, race hygiene and social imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With a …
Moments of Modernity
Social and Symbolic Fathers and Sons in Postwar Britain
He didn't die alone. My mother says she never left him, and at the end I was there—the elder son. She, my mother, prayed she'd find him dead every morning when she went in. But he wasn't. When I heard her talk like that I came. I knew it was different this time, from the small, flat pitch in her voice and because I was experienced. I had seen the signs of death before from other lives and had come to know its timing. So I knew and I came, quickly…
Cityscapes
Cultures of Consumption
Sexuality, Modernity and the Victorians
(1996). Sexuality, Modernity and the Victorians. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 118-130
Archaeologies of City Life
Studies of contemporary systems of consumption across the humanities and social sciences are frequently shadowed by a recurrent problem. Difficulties centre on the tendency to construct a set of general theories, pitched at high levels of abstraction, about the economic and cultural transformations which have been associated with recent shifts in the structure of demand. It is argued that such a synthetic use of the concept of consumption cannot …
Crisis Points
Retailing, Commercial Culture and Masculinity in 1950s Britain
Frank Mort, Peter Thompson; Retailing, Commercial Culture and Masculinity in 1950s Britain: the case of Montague Burton, the ‘Tailor of Taste’, History Wor
Cultures of Consumption
Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality.
Archaeologies of City Life
Studies of contemporary systems of consumption across the humanities and social sciences are frequently shadowed by a recurrent problem. Difficulties centre on the tendency to construct a set of general theories, pitched at high levels of abstraction, about the economic and cultural transformations which have been associated with recent shifts in the structure of demand. It is argued that such a synthetic use of the concept of consumption cannot …
Fantasies of Metropolitan Life
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Social and Symbolic Fathers and Sons in Postwar Britain
He didn't die alone. My mother says she never left him, and at the end I was there—the elder son. She, my mother, prayed she'd find him dead every morning when she went in. But he wasn't. When I heard her talk like that I came. I knew it was different this time, from the small, flat pitch in her voice and because I was experienced. I had seen the signs of death before from other lives and had come to know its timing. So I knew and I came, quickly…
Cityscapes
The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2010 * The Permissive Society Revisited
It is an honour to be asked to lecture in memory of Ben Pimlott.1 Half a generation older than myself, he represents two different strands of modern British political and social history. Firstly, the passionate chronicler of Labour and labourism and secondly the distinguished biographer of a series of major public figures from Hugh Dalton to the Queen. In his role as biographer, Ben used the form to explore not only the 'human drama' of powerful …
Striptease
On a rainy Friday evening in the autumn of 1961 a young policeman turned into Walker's Court, off Soho's Brewer Street in London's West End, and went into a strip club, advertised from the street w
On Tour with the Prince
The stage managers of ritual and the media transformed the British monarchy in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, consolidating its image as splendid and popular and also as more accessible and quasi-democratic. Historians have emphasized that these processes of modernization largely began in Britain. This article locates the origins of democratized royal ritual in the white dominions, especially after 1918. Canada, Australia and Ne…
Crisis Points
Retailing, Commercial Culture and Masculinity in 1950s Britain
Frank Mort, Peter Thompson; Retailing, Commercial Culture and Masculinity in 1950s Britain: the case of Montague Burton, the ‘Tailor of Taste’, History Wor
Love in a Cold Climate
To what extent did the abdication of Edward VIII represent a significant turning point both in the history of constitutional monarchy and in the relationship between public and private morality in inter-war Britain? Letters written to the King and to other key players in the affair provide evidence of the disputed nature of media-influenced public opinion during the 1930s. But it is also argued that this correspondence points to the psychological…
Transforming Metropolitan London, 1750–1960
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Safe for Democracy
How did the British monarchy respond to the multiple challenges of early twentieth-century mass democracy? Historians have separated the growth of constitutional sovereignty from the practice of a welfare monarchy, or from royalty as decorative and media friendly. This article argues that the political transformation of the modern monarchy was inseparable from innovations to its style and presentation. Opening with the dramatic constitutional cri…
Intellectual Pluralism and the Future of British History
This article argues that modern British history has become increasingly pluralistic as a result of intellectual and political shifts occurring since the 1960s. Gareth Stedman Jones’s own career has been exemplary in his commitment to a conceptually sophisticated pluralism, an approach that is also reinforced by the contributors to the edited collection, Structures and Transformations (2011), who emphasize the contingency of historical perspective…
Crisis Points
Retailing, Commercial Culture and Masculinity in 1950s Britain
Frank Mort, Peter Thompson; Retailing, Commercial Culture and Masculinity in 1950s Britain: the case of Montague Burton, the ‘Tailor of Taste’, History Wor
Archaeologies of City Life
Studies of contemporary systems of consumption across the humanities and social sciences are frequently shadowed by a recurrent problem. Difficulties centre on the tendency to construct a set of general theories, pitched at high levels of abstraction, about the economic and cultural transformations which have been associated with recent shifts in the structure of demand. It is argued that such a synthetic use of the concept of consumption cannot …
Sexuality, Modernity and the Victorians
(1996). Sexuality, Modernity and the Victorians. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 118-130
Cultures of Consumption
Cityscapes
Moments of Modernity
Social and Symbolic Fathers and Sons in Postwar Britain
He didn't die alone. My mother says she never left him, and at the end I was there—the elder son. She, my mother, prayed she'd find him dead every morning when she went in. But he wasn't. When I heard her talk like that I came. I knew it was different this time, from the small, flat pitch in her voice and because I was experienced. I had seen the signs of death before from other lives and had come to know its timing. So I knew and I came, quickly…
Dangerous Sexualities
Dangerous Sexualities takes a look at how our ideas of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex. Beginning in the 1830s, Frank Mort relates his social historical narratives to the sexual choices and possibilities facing us now.This long-awaited second edition has been thoroughly updated to include new discussions of eugenics, race hygiene and social imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With a …
Transforming Metropolitan London, 1750–1960
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Fantasies of Metropolitan Life
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Competing Domains
I should like to thank Frank Trentmann, Peter Thompson and Chris Waters for their helpful comments on this piece.Every quarter the Henley Centre for Forecasting, a prestige marketing organization specializing in long-term planning for the consumer industries, publishes its survey of leisure in the U
Scandalous Events
Historians of the sexual and cultural changes associated with the "permissive" moment of the 1960s have tended to emphasize a progressive narrative of reform focused on national policies and their social outcomes. This article explores a diffierent dynamic, highlighting the ways in which a series of scandalous and transgressive events, associated with particular networks of metropolitan culture in London, played a significant role in reshaping se…
Striptease
On a rainy Friday evening in the autumn of 1961 a young policeman turned into Walker's Court, off Soho's Brewer Street in London's West End, and went into a strip club, advertised from the street w
The spaces of the modern city
By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. "The Spaces of the Modern City" historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the ci…
The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2010 * The Permissive Society Revisited
It is an honour to be asked to lecture in memory of Ben Pimlott.1 Half a generation older than myself, he represents two different strands of modern British political and social history. Firstly, the passionate chronicler of Labour and labourism and secondly the distinguished biographer of a series of major public figures from Hugh Dalton to the Queen. In his role as biographer, Ben used the form to explore not only the 'human drama' of powerful …
Intellectual Pluralism and the Future of British History
This article argues that modern British history has become increasingly pluralistic as a result of intellectual and political shifts occurring since the 1960s. Gareth Stedman Jones’s own career has been exemplary in his commitment to a conceptually sophisticated pluralism, an approach that is also reinforced by the contributors to the edited collection, Structures and Transformations (2011), who emphasize the contingency of historical perspective…
Cultures of Consumption
Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality.
Love in a Cold Climate
To what extent did the abdication of Edward VIII represent a significant turning point both in the history of constitutional monarchy and in the relationship between public and private morality in inter-war Britain? Letters written to the King and to other key players in the affair provide evidence of the disputed nature of media-influenced public opinion during the 1930s. But it is also argued that this correspondence points to the psychological…
Victorian Afterlives
My paper is framed as a retrospective, because I am addressing the ‘After’ part of our discussions on ‘Victorian Sexualities and After’. Specifically, what were the consequences of nineteenth-century regimes of sexuality for subsequent periods and especially for the 1960s and 1970s? I address this in two ways, both of which are unashamedly personal but in a historicized sense. First, I offer my memories of beginning to research Victorian society …
On Tour with the Prince
The stage managers of ritual and the media transformed the British monarchy in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, consolidating its image as splendid and popular and also as more accessible and quasi-democratic. Historians have emphasized that these processes of modernization largely began in Britain. This article locates the origins of democratized royal ritual in the white dominions, especially after 1918. Canada, Australia and Ne…
Safe for Democracy
How did the British monarchy respond to the multiple challenges of early twentieth-century mass democracy? Historians have separated the growth of constitutional sovereignty from the practice of a welfare monarchy, or from royalty as decorative and media friendly. This article argues that the political transformation of the modern monarchy was inseparable from innovations to its style and presentation. Opening with the dramatic constitutional cri…
Divided Kingdom. A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present. By Pat Thane
Accessible sovereignty
Historians have argued that the Great War crystalized the idea of a modern popular monarchy in Britain and across the British imperial world. This version of sovereignty successfully negotiated the wartime crises of resurgent republicanism and the nationalisms that toppled other dynasties across Europe. Yet the story has largely been told ‘from above’. The article draws on the extensive and under-examined testimony of soldiers and nurses from Aus…
Sociology (16 works) · History (13 works) · History (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Australian History and Society (6 works)