Charlotte Lydia Riley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3991037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Lydia Riley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte Lydia |
| FAMILY NAME | Riley |
| SIGNATURE | RILEY C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4901-6073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Labour Pains
British left-wing politics does not know what to think about mothers. In left-wing women’s movements, motherhood has been recognised as essential and difficult; necessary for future revolutions, not least in raising future revolutionaries. In less radical circles, it has been understood as a crucial contribution to the functioning of society, often forming the basis of women’s claims to citizenship and maternalist forms of politics. On the other …
Imperial Island
After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain and its people as never before. Drawing on a mass of new research, Riley tells a story of immigration and exclusion, social strife and cultural transformation. It is the story that best explains Britain today.
Writing like a woman
Must Labour Lose
This article explores Mark Abrams, Richard Rose, and Rita Hinden’s 1960 publication Must Labour Lose? in order to demonstrate that contemporary debates around British identity and political culture are nothing new. The concerns about political, party, and national identity in this book clearly prefigure 2016 debates about Britain, not least because a specific question—how to vote—became a conversation about a broader set of ideals. This article e…
Powerful Men, Failing Upwards
In 2018, the global #MeToo movement turned its attention to the aid industry, after scandals at Oxfam and Save the Children highlighted the sexual harassment, abuse and assault prevalent in the sector. This article explores #MeToo in the context of the aid industry (informally known by many participants as #AidToo), particularly within a British context. The article argues that the aid industry exists in a historical, social and political space t…
Britannia
Giving the placeless a place in the world
Red Ellen
Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) was first elected as a Labour MP in 1924 when she represented Middlesbrough East. Following defeat in 1931, she pursued a career as a writer and trade union activist bef
Bread for All
The flyleaf of this book proclaims that ‘most people seem to agree that something has gone badly wrong with the British welfare state’. Whether this is true or not, there certainly seems a thirst at the moment for histories exploring issues around welfare, spurred perhaps as much by the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (NHS) as any sort of political crisis. Chris Renwick here makes the case that this history c…
Carswell
Should one mention feminism
International women's year
"International women’s year: the greatest consciousness raising event in history." Women's History Review, 27(4), pp. 647–648
James Crossland, Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939–1945
Jeremy Black, The British Empire
Rethinking Modern British Studies . July 2015
In February 2014, the Modern British Studies (MBS) research centre at the University of Birmingham published a ‘working paper’ on ‘new ways of thinking about the transformation of British society, culture, politics and economy from the mid-nineteenth century to the present’. The paper focused especially on ‘cultures of democracy’ in a period of profound political, social and cultural change.1 The paper asserted that Britain should be understood ‘…
Harold Wilson
In this book, Andrew S. Crines and Kevin Hickson have brought together a number of academic and political contributors to reassess the policies, ideologies, and legacies of Harold Wilson as Prime Minister. The book was released to mark a number of anniversaries: the centenary of Wilson’s birth, his most resounding election victory as Prime Minister at fifty, and his resignation a decade later. It takes as its subtitle, and one of its main themes,…
Must Labour Lose
This article explores Mark Abrams, Richard Rose, and Rita Hinden’s 1960 publication Must Labour Lose? in order to demonstrate that contemporary debates around British identity and political culture are nothing new. The concerns about political, party, and national identity in this book clearly prefigure 2016 debates about Britain, not least because a specific question—how to vote—became a conversation about a broader set of ideals. This article e…
Rethinking Modern British Studies . July 2015
In February 2014, the Modern British Studies (MBS) research centre at the University of Birmingham published a ‘working paper’ on ‘new ways of thinking about the transformation of British society, culture, politics and economy from the mid-nineteenth century to the present’. The paper focused especially on ‘cultures of democracy’ in a period of profound political, social and cultural change.1 The paper asserted that Britain should be understood ‘…
Harold Wilson
In this book, Andrew S. Crines and Kevin Hickson have brought together a number of academic and political contributors to reassess the policies, ideologies, and legacies of Harold Wilson as Prime Minister. The book was released to mark a number of anniversaries: the centenary of Wilson’s birth, his most resounding election victory as Prime Minister at fifty, and his resignation a decade later. It takes as its subtitle, and one of its main themes,…
James Crossland, Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939–1945
Jeremy Black, The British Empire
Red Ellen
Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) was first elected as a Labour MP in 1924 when she represented Middlesbrough East. Following defeat in 1931, she pursued a career as a writer and trade union activist bef
Bread for All
The flyleaf of this book proclaims that ‘most people seem to agree that something has gone badly wrong with the British welfare state’. Whether this is true or not, there certainly seems a thirst at the moment for histories exploring issues around welfare, spurred perhaps as much by the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (NHS) as any sort of political crisis. Chris Renwick here makes the case that this history c…
Carswell
Should one mention feminism
International women's year
"International women’s year: the greatest consciousness raising event in history." Women's History Review, 27(4), pp. 647–648
Giving the placeless a place in the world
Powerful Men, Failing Upwards
In 2018, the global #MeToo movement turned its attention to the aid industry, after scandals at Oxfam and Save the Children highlighted the sexual harassment, abuse and assault prevalent in the sector. This article explores #MeToo in the context of the aid industry (informally known by many participants as #AidToo), particularly within a British context. The article argues that the aid industry exists in a historical, social and political space t…
Britannia
Writing like a woman
Must Labour Lose
This article explores Mark Abrams, Richard Rose, and Rita Hinden’s 1960 publication Must Labour Lose? in order to demonstrate that contemporary debates around British identity and political culture are nothing new. The concerns about political, party, and national identity in this book clearly prefigure 2016 debates about Britain, not least because a specific question—how to vote—became a conversation about a broader set of ideals. This article e…
Imperial Island
After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain and its people as never before. Drawing on a mass of new research, Riley tells a story of immigration and exclusion, social strife and cultural transformation. It is the story that best explains Britain today.
Labour Pains
British left-wing politics does not know what to think about mothers. In left-wing women’s movements, motherhood has been recognised as essential and difficult; necessary for future revolutions, not least in raising future revolutionaries. In less radical circles, it has been understood as a crucial contribution to the functioning of society, often forming the basis of women’s claims to citizenship and maternalist forms of politics. On the other …
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