Martin Francis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3889040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Francis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Francis |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
F rances H oughton . The Veterans’ Tale: British Military Memoirs of the Second World War
Frances Houghton is fully justified in claiming that, amid the burgeoning historical scholarship on the experience and memory of World War II in Britain, the postwar memoirs of former servicemen have been remarkably undervalued and underutilized. In this engrossing study, Houghton rectifies this lacuna in the literature, providing an astute reading of how veterans remembered, comprehended, and recounted their experiences of combat in later decade…
At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz, by Susan R. Grayzel
Journal Article At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz, by Susan R. Grayzel Get access At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz, by Susan R. Grayzel (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2012; pp. 343. £60). Martin Francis Martin Francis University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Rev…
Memories of Empire . Volume I: The White Man’s World, by Bill Schwarz
The conventional wisdom about Britain’s disengagement from empire in the decades immediately after 1945 is that decolonisation was achieved without a crisis in the domestic state equivalent to that which afflicted France during the Algerian war of independence. While historians have increasingly dismissed congenial explanations for British imperial retreat which had argued that independence was a consequence of either altruism or a sober and disp…
Men of the Royal Air Force, the Cultural Memory of the Second World War and the Twilight of the British Empire
In an influential article which appeared in 1996, Bill Schwarz provocatively asserted that, in the postwar reconfiguration of Englishness, “the external determinations were primary, and that from the ruins of the colonial empires across the globe there emerged, among the white populations themselves, a recharged, intensified self-consciousness of their existential presence as white”. The rhetoric of embattled white settlers in Kenya, Rhodesia and…
A Flight from Commitment? Domesticity, Adventure and the Masculine Imaginary in Britain after the Second World War
Cecil Beaton's Romantic Toryism and the Symbolic Economy of Wartime Britain
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The Domestication of the Male? Recent Research on Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century British Masculinity
This review will survey some of the most important historical studies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British masculinity which have appeared in the last decade. It endorses John Tosh's insistence that it is necessary to move beyond the homosocial environments and explicit ideologies of ‘manliness’ studied by those historians who, in the 1980s, first sought a gendered history of men in modern Britain. However, it also warns that a commendabl…
Tears, Tantrums, and Bared Teeth: The Emotional Economy of Three Conservative Prime Ministers, 1951–1963
At a cabinet meeting on November 4, 1956, Anthony Eden came face to face with the unravelling of his ill-starred premiership. As two leading cabinet colleagues, Lord Butler and Lord Salisbury, insisted that British military operations in Egypt would have to be ended, the prime minister found it impossible to repress any longer his overwrought and excitable temperament. According to the journalist James Margach, “Eden was emotionally overcome. He …
Mr Gaitskell's Ganymede? Re‐assessing Crosland's the future of socialism
The Future of Socialism has frequently been represented as a ‘Gaitskellite manifesto’. This article argues that our understanding and appreciation of Crosland's 1956 work is severely compromised if it is viewed solely in the context of the internecine warfare between Labour's left and right wings between the mid 1950s and early 1960s. Crosland first articulated many of his critical arguments long before the faction fighting of the 1950s, and The …
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES MARTIN FRANCIS MARTIN FRANCIS University of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 435, February 1995, Pages 256–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.435.256 Published: 01 February 1995
Economics and Ethics: The Nature of Labour's Socialism, 1945–1951
Journal Article Economics and Ethics: The Nature of Labour's Socialism, 1945–1951 Get access MARTIN FRANCIS MARTIN FRANCIS University of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 220–243, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/6.2.220 Published: 01 January 1995
Race and the Education Reform Act
Issues in the fight against the Education Bill
Cold comfort in the primary school
Primary Teaching, by ROBIN J. ALEXANDER, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, London (1984), pp. 231. £5.50 ISBN 0-03-910519-9. Developing the Primary School Curriculum, by R. J. CAMPBELL, Holt Rinehart and Winston, London, (1985), pp. 186. £5.95 ISBN 0-03-910598-9
Tears, Tantrums, and Bared Teeth: The Emotional Economy of Three Conservative Prime Ministers, 1951–1963
At a cabinet meeting on November 4, 1956, Anthony Eden came face to face with the unravelling of his ill-starred premiership. As two leading cabinet colleagues, Lord Butler and Lord Salisbury, insisted that British military operations in Egypt would have to be ended, the prime minister found it impossible to repress any longer his overwrought and excitable temperament. According to the journalist James Margach, “Eden was emotionally overcome. He …
A Flight from Commitment? Domesticity, Adventure and the Masculine Imaginary in Britain after the Second World War
Economics and Ethics: The Nature of Labour's Socialism, 1945–1951
Journal Article Economics and Ethics: The Nature of Labour's Socialism, 1945–1951 Get access MARTIN FRANCIS MARTIN FRANCIS University of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 220–243, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/6.2.220 Published: 01 January 1995
Cecil Beaton's Romantic Toryism and the Symbolic Economy of Wartime Britain
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
Memories of Empire . Volume I: The White Man’s World, by Bill Schwarz
The conventional wisdom about Britain’s disengagement from empire in the decades immediately after 1945 is that decolonisation was achieved without a crisis in the domestic state equivalent to that which afflicted France during the Algerian war of independence. While historians have increasingly dismissed congenial explanations for British imperial retreat which had argued that independence was a consequence of either altruism or a sober and disp…
Mr Gaitskell's Ganymede? Re‐assessing Crosland's the future of socialism
The Future of Socialism has frequently been represented as a ‘Gaitskellite manifesto’. This article argues that our understanding and appreciation of Crosland's 1956 work is severely compromised if it is viewed solely in the context of the internecine warfare between Labour's left and right wings between the mid 1950s and early 1960s. Crosland first articulated many of his critical arguments long before the faction fighting of the 1950s, and The …
Cold comfort in the primary school
Primary Teaching, by ROBIN J. ALEXANDER, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, London (1984), pp. 231. £5.50 ISBN 0-03-910519-9. Developing the Primary School Curriculum, by R. J. CAMPBELL, Holt Rinehart and Winston, London, (1985), pp. 186. £5.95 ISBN 0-03-910598-9
Issues in the fight against the Education Bill
Race and the Education Reform Act
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES MARTIN FRANCIS MARTIN FRANCIS University of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 435, February 1995, Pages 256–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.435.256 Published: 01 February 1995
Economics and Ethics: The Nature of Labour's Socialism, 1945–1951
Journal Article Economics and Ethics: The Nature of Labour's Socialism, 1945–1951 Get access MARTIN FRANCIS MARTIN FRANCIS University of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 220–243, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/6.2.220 Published: 01 January 1995
Mr Gaitskell's Ganymede? Re‐assessing Crosland's the future of socialism
The Future of Socialism has frequently been represented as a ‘Gaitskellite manifesto’. This article argues that our understanding and appreciation of Crosland's 1956 work is severely compromised if it is viewed solely in the context of the internecine warfare between Labour's left and right wings between the mid 1950s and early 1960s. Crosland first articulated many of his critical arguments long before the faction fighting of the 1950s, and The …
The Domestication of the Male? Recent Research on Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century British Masculinity
This review will survey some of the most important historical studies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British masculinity which have appeared in the last decade. It endorses John Tosh's insistence that it is necessary to move beyond the homosocial environments and explicit ideologies of ‘manliness’ studied by those historians who, in the 1980s, first sought a gendered history of men in modern Britain. However, it also warns that a commendabl…
Tears, Tantrums, and Bared Teeth: The Emotional Economy of Three Conservative Prime Ministers, 1951–1963
At a cabinet meeting on November 4, 1956, Anthony Eden came face to face with the unravelling of his ill-starred premiership. As two leading cabinet colleagues, Lord Butler and Lord Salisbury, insisted that British military operations in Egypt would have to be ended, the prime minister found it impossible to repress any longer his overwrought and excitable temperament. According to the journalist James Margach, “Eden was emotionally overcome. He …
Cecil Beaton's Romantic Toryism and the Symbolic Economy of Wartime Britain
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
A Flight from Commitment? Domesticity, Adventure and the Masculine Imaginary in Britain after the Second World War
Men of the Royal Air Force, the Cultural Memory of the Second World War and the Twilight of the British Empire
In an influential article which appeared in 1996, Bill Schwarz provocatively asserted that, in the postwar reconfiguration of Englishness, “the external determinations were primary, and that from the ruins of the colonial empires across the globe there emerged, among the white populations themselves, a recharged, intensified self-consciousness of their existential presence as white”. The rhetoric of embattled white settlers in Kenya, Rhodesia and…
At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz, by Susan R. Grayzel
Journal Article At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz, by Susan R. Grayzel Get access At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz, by Susan R. Grayzel (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2012; pp. 343. £60). Martin Francis Martin Francis University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Rev…
Memories of Empire . Volume I: The White Man’s World, by Bill Schwarz
The conventional wisdom about Britain’s disengagement from empire in the decades immediately after 1945 is that decolonisation was achieved without a crisis in the domestic state equivalent to that which afflicted France during the Algerian war of independence. While historians have increasingly dismissed congenial explanations for British imperial retreat which had argued that independence was a consequence of either altruism or a sober and disp…
F rances H oughton . The Veterans’ Tale: British Military Memoirs of the Second World War
Frances Houghton is fully justified in claiming that, amid the burgeoning historical scholarship on the experience and memory of World War II in Britain, the postwar memoirs of former servicemen have been remarkably undervalued and underutilized. In this engrossing study, Houghton rectifies this lacuna in the literature, providing an astute reading of how veterans remembered, comprehended, and recounted their experiences of combat in later decade…
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