Selina Todd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Selina Todd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Selina |
| FAMILY NAME | Todd |
| SIGNATURE | TODD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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Sex and Gender
Legal Evidence
Legal evidence from the classical Greek world is significantly more disparate than for Roman law. This is partly a function of the political independence of Greek city states, each in principle forming its own jurisdiction. Perhaps more important, however, is the absence of a tightly defined corpus of legal writings of the type found in Roman law, which therefore raises additional questions about what counts as Greek legal evidence. Geographicall…
Women, Work and Value in Post-War Europe
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The Everyday Uses of Class
The title of Carolyn Steedman’s latest book makes clear that class is back on the historiographical agenda. In fact it never went away. While historians have debated the relevance of class for the last three decades, the heated discussion itself has kept class at the forefront of theoretical discussion. And in practice most historians of modern Britain have continued to use class in their work, as a form of description if not as a means of analys…
Phoenix Rising
Between 1945 and 1967, England's town and city centers were reconstructed. This article argues that this process of civic redevelopment transformed working-class people's experience of urban life. Frequently represented as a social problem or simply ignored by prewar planning and political rhetoric on civic participation, working-class people were treated as vital to civic life in postwar England. This change had profound implications for people'…
Family Welfare and Social Work in Post-War England, c .1948– c .1970
This article examines the transformation in family welfare work precipitated by the post-war expansion of the welfare state. While existing scholarship has suggested that welfare work pathologised working-class families, and particularly working-class mothers, I argue that many family-welfare workers advanced a progressive understanding of poverty’s causes that sympathised with those living in hardship. These workers’ experiences of talking to cl…
Class, experience and Britain's twentieth century
Fifty years on from E. P. Thompson's call to rescue working people from ‘the enormous condescension of posterity’, and myriad ‘turns’ later, historians of modern Britain remain concerned to documen
Baby-Boomers to ‘Beanstalkers’
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the British teenager was presented as a symbol of generational rebellion in the popular press, social investigations, and much political debate. We draw on oral histories, newspapers and the archives of prominent social surveys to question this presentation. By examining how working-class teenagers and their parents experienced and remembered the post-war years, we identify a disjuncture between the literature on mor…
Hypereides Against Diondas, Demosthenes on the Crown, and the Rhetoric of Political Failure
Journal Article HYPEREIDES AGAINST DIONDAS, DEMOSTHENES ON THE CROWN, AND THE RHETORIC OF POLITICAL FAILURE Get access S. C. TODD S. C. TODD Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 52, Issue 1, December 2009, Pages 161–174, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2009.tb00754.x Published: 10 June…
Affluence, Class and Crown Street
This paper revisits sociological studies of Liverpool between 1956 and 1964 to challenge the prevailing emphasis on affluence in histories of post-war Britain. Vulnerability to poverty continued to shape working-class life, and the sociologists and their respondents drew on class to account for this. However, while the researchers used class as a social description, their respondents suggested that class was a dynamic social relationship within w…
Gender, Justice and Welfare
Breadwinners and Dependants
The prevailing image of twentieth-century English “youth” is as a triumphal signifier of affluent leisure consumption. By contrast, this article demonstrates the importance of young working-class people's economic role as wage-earners in the mid-twentieth century. This shaped their treatment by the family and the state and the life histories of the adults they became. Juveniles were crucial breadwinners in interwar working-class households. Howev…
Flappers and Factory Lads
The interwar years witnessed a transition in the experience, representation, and treatment of youth. While David Fowler identifies an interwar explosion of a commercialised youth culture, other historians suggest that young people’s lifestyles were fractured by class. More affluent young people were in full‐time education, but the majority of children entered the labour market at the age of fourteen. Young wage‐earners shouldered economic respons…
Young Women, Work, and Family in England 1918-1950
This book gives an account of young women's lives, challenges, and existing assumptions about working class life and womanhood in England between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the 1950s. While contemporaries commonly portrayed young women as pleasure-loving leisure consumers, this book argues that the world of work was in fact central to their life experiences. Social and economic history are woven together to examine the wo…
Young Women, Work, and Leisure in Interwar England
Interwar England witnessed the emergence of a new generation of socially and financially independent young working-class women who worked in offices, shops, and factories, ‘dressed like actresses’, and were prominent leisure consumers, indulging in cosmetics and confectionery and frequenting the cinema and dance hall. This article analyses that development. A synthesis of qualitative and quantitative material indicates that age- and gender-specif…
Boisterous Workers
My part in Marx's downfall
Autobiography is a very different genre from the type of historical writing Eric Hobsbawm is renowned for, but through his synthesis of the best of these forms he is responsible for a fascinating
The Lawcourts at Athens
Personal Status
At some time in the early fourth century, an anonymous client of Lysias delivered a speech against an otherwise unknown man called Pankleon. The manuscript title for the speech may roughly be translated as follows: ‘[prosecution] against Pankleon, because (or ‘showing that’) he was not a citizen of Plataia’. Plataia was a small polis and an ally of Athens, which had been destroyed by its mighty neighbour Thebes early in the Peloponnesian War (431…
The Legacy of Athenian Law?
Law is one of the very few areas of social practice in which the ancient Greeks have had no significant influence on subsequent societies. To grasp the significance of this statement, it is worth examining for a moment the contrast with politics, that other area of life in which relationships between human beings are publicly regulated. The Greeks invented not merely the terminology of politics, but many of its fundamental concepts: it was the fo…
The Shape of Athenian Law
Unlike its predecessors, this systematic survey of the law of Athens is based on explicit discussion of how the subject might be studied; and it incorporates topics like the democratic political system and social structure, which are too often regarded as being outside the scope of law. At its heart lies an attempt to reshape our understanding of how the Athenian legal system operated; but it also deals extensively with subjects such as slavery, …
The Shape of Athenian Law
Unlike its predecessors, this systematic survey of the law of Athens is based on explicit discussion of how the subject might be studied; and it incorporates topics like the democratic political system and social structure, which are too often regarded as being outside the scope of law. At its heart lies an attempt to reshape our understanding of how the Athenian legal system operated; but it also deals extensively with subjects such as slavery, …
Young Women, Work, and Leisure in Interwar England
Interwar England witnessed the emergence of a new generation of socially and financially independent young working-class women who worked in offices, shops, and factories, ‘dressed like actresses’, and were prominent leisure consumers, indulging in cosmetics and confectionery and frequenting the cinema and dance hall. This article analyses that development. A synthesis of qualitative and quantitative material indicates that age- and gender-specif…
Affluence, Class and Crown Street
This paper revisits sociological studies of Liverpool between 1956 and 1964 to challenge the prevailing emphasis on affluence in histories of post-war Britain. Vulnerability to poverty continued to shape working-class life, and the sociologists and their respondents drew on class to account for this. However, while the researchers used class as a social description, their respondents suggested that class was a dynamic social relationship within w…
Class, experience and Britain's twentieth century
Fifty years on from E. P. Thompson's call to rescue working people from ‘the enormous condescension of posterity’, and myriad ‘turns’ later, historians of modern Britain remain concerned to documen
Breadwinners and Dependants
The prevailing image of twentieth-century English “youth” is as a triumphal signifier of affluent leisure consumption. By contrast, this article demonstrates the importance of young working-class people's economic role as wage-earners in the mid-twentieth century. This shaped their treatment by the family and the state and the life histories of the adults they became. Juveniles were crucial breadwinners in interwar working-class households. Howev…
Phoenix Rising
Between 1945 and 1967, England's town and city centers were reconstructed. This article argues that this process of civic redevelopment transformed working-class people's experience of urban life. Frequently represented as a social problem or simply ignored by prewar planning and political rhetoric on civic participation, working-class people were treated as vital to civic life in postwar England. This change had profound implications for people'…
Baby-Boomers to ‘Beanstalkers’
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the British teenager was presented as a symbol of generational rebellion in the popular press, social investigations, and much political debate. We draw on oral histories, newspapers and the archives of prominent social surveys to question this presentation. By examining how working-class teenagers and their parents experienced and remembered the post-war years, we identify a disjuncture between the literature on mor…
Flappers and Factory Lads
The interwar years witnessed a transition in the experience, representation, and treatment of youth. While David Fowler identifies an interwar explosion of a commercialised youth culture, other historians suggest that young people’s lifestyles were fractured by class. More affluent young people were in full‐time education, but the majority of children entered the labour market at the age of fourteen. Young wage‐earners shouldered economic respons…
Boisterous Workers
Personal Status
At some time in the early fourth century, an anonymous client of Lysias delivered a speech against an otherwise unknown man called Pankleon. The manuscript title for the speech may roughly be translated as follows: ‘[prosecution] against Pankleon, because (or ‘showing that’) he was not a citizen of Plataia’. Plataia was a small polis and an ally of Athens, which had been destroyed by its mighty neighbour Thebes early in the Peloponnesian War (431…
The Legacy of Athenian Law?
Law is one of the very few areas of social practice in which the ancient Greeks have had no significant influence on subsequent societies. To grasp the significance of this statement, it is worth examining for a moment the contrast with politics, that other area of life in which relationships between human beings are publicly regulated. The Greeks invented not merely the terminology of politics, but many of its fundamental concepts: it was the fo…
The Shape of Athenian Law
Unlike its predecessors, this systematic survey of the law of Athens is based on explicit discussion of how the subject might be studied; and it incorporates topics like the democratic political system and social structure, which are too often regarded as being outside the scope of law. At its heart lies an attempt to reshape our understanding of how the Athenian legal system operated; but it also deals extensively with subjects such as slavery, …
The Lawcourts at Athens
Boisterous Workers
My part in Marx's downfall
Autobiography is a very different genre from the type of historical writing Eric Hobsbawm is renowned for, but through his synthesis of the best of these forms he is responsible for a fascinating
Young Women, Work, and Family in England 1918-1950
This book gives an account of young women's lives, challenges, and existing assumptions about working class life and womanhood in England between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the 1950s. While contemporaries commonly portrayed young women as pleasure-loving leisure consumers, this book argues that the world of work was in fact central to their life experiences. Social and economic history are woven together to examine the wo…
Young Women, Work, and Leisure in Interwar England
Interwar England witnessed the emergence of a new generation of socially and financially independent young working-class women who worked in offices, shops, and factories, ‘dressed like actresses’, and were prominent leisure consumers, indulging in cosmetics and confectionery and frequenting the cinema and dance hall. This article analyses that development. A synthesis of qualitative and quantitative material indicates that age- and gender-specif…
Flappers and Factory Lads
The interwar years witnessed a transition in the experience, representation, and treatment of youth. While David Fowler identifies an interwar explosion of a commercialised youth culture, other historians suggest that young people’s lifestyles were fractured by class. More affluent young people were in full‐time education, but the majority of children entered the labour market at the age of fourteen. Young wage‐earners shouldered economic respons…
Gender, Justice and Welfare
Breadwinners and Dependants
The prevailing image of twentieth-century English “youth” is as a triumphal signifier of affluent leisure consumption. By contrast, this article demonstrates the importance of young working-class people's economic role as wage-earners in the mid-twentieth century. This shaped their treatment by the family and the state and the life histories of the adults they became. Juveniles were crucial breadwinners in interwar working-class households. Howev…
Affluence, Class and Crown Street
This paper revisits sociological studies of Liverpool between 1956 and 1964 to challenge the prevailing emphasis on affluence in histories of post-war Britain. Vulnerability to poverty continued to shape working-class life, and the sociologists and their respondents drew on class to account for this. However, while the researchers used class as a social description, their respondents suggested that class was a dynamic social relationship within w…
Hypereides Against Diondas, Demosthenes on the Crown, and the Rhetoric of Political Failure
Journal Article HYPEREIDES AGAINST DIONDAS, DEMOSTHENES ON THE CROWN, AND THE RHETORIC OF POLITICAL FAILURE Get access S. C. TODD S. C. TODD Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 52, Issue 1, December 2009, Pages 161–174, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2009.tb00754.x Published: 10 June…
Baby-Boomers to ‘Beanstalkers’
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the British teenager was presented as a symbol of generational rebellion in the popular press, social investigations, and much political debate. We draw on oral histories, newspapers and the archives of prominent social surveys to question this presentation. By examining how working-class teenagers and their parents experienced and remembered the post-war years, we identify a disjuncture between the literature on mor…
Family Welfare and Social Work in Post-War England, c .1948– c .1970
This article examines the transformation in family welfare work precipitated by the post-war expansion of the welfare state. While existing scholarship has suggested that welfare work pathologised working-class families, and particularly working-class mothers, I argue that many family-welfare workers advanced a progressive understanding of poverty’s causes that sympathised with those living in hardship. These workers’ experiences of talking to cl…
Class, experience and Britain's twentieth century
Fifty years on from E. P. Thompson's call to rescue working people from ‘the enormous condescension of posterity’, and myriad ‘turns’ later, historians of modern Britain remain concerned to documen
Phoenix Rising
Between 1945 and 1967, England's town and city centers were reconstructed. This article argues that this process of civic redevelopment transformed working-class people's experience of urban life. Frequently represented as a social problem or simply ignored by prewar planning and political rhetoric on civic participation, working-class people were treated as vital to civic life in postwar England. This change had profound implications for people'…
The Everyday Uses of Class
The title of Carolyn Steedman’s latest book makes clear that class is back on the historiographical agenda. In fact it never went away. While historians have debated the relevance of class for the last three decades, the heated discussion itself has kept class at the forefront of theoretical discussion. And in practice most historians of modern Britain have continued to use class in their work, as a form of description if not as a means of analys…
Women, Work and Value in Post-War Europe
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Sex and Gender
Legal Evidence
Legal evidence from the classical Greek world is significantly more disparate than for Roman law. This is partly a function of the political independence of Greek city states, each in principle forming its own jurisdiction. Perhaps more important, however, is the absence of a tightly defined corpus of legal writings of the type found in Roman law, which therefore raises additional questions about what counts as Greek legal evidence. Geographicall…
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