Écrire l’histoire des luttes en Grande-Bretagne : people’s history et history from below
This paper traces the origins of British “history from below” back to 19th-century people’s history and labour history, and charts its evolution onwards, as it was shaped in turn by the “Popular Front” communism of the 1930s, the heterodox marxism of the “New Left” in the late 1950s, the social and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/12943 |
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| Summary: | This paper traces the origins of British “history from below” back to 19th-century people’s history and labour history, and charts its evolution onwards, as it was shaped in turn by the “Popular Front” communism of the 1930s, the heterodox marxism of the “New Left” in the late 1950s, the social and countercultural movements of the late 1960s up to “Women’s Lib” in the 1970s. Though the term itself, which gained ground in the 1980s as a byword for a cultural history of the people, whose template could be applied to a variety of times and places, seems to point to a shared theme, method and ideology, it encompasses potentially contradictory intellectual and political projects, as was emphasised by Raphael Samuel as early as 1979. |
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| ISSN: | 0248-9015 2429-4373 |