Democratising History

• Introduction: Democratising history inside and out
  Laura Carter and Freddy Foks

• Interlude a. New Challenges: Teaching Modern History in a ‘new university’
  Iwan Morgan

• Part I. Victorian Britain, progress, and the wider world

• 1 Opium, ‘civilisation’, and the Anglo-Chinese Wars, 1839–1860
  Philip Harling

• 2 Archibald Alison’s Revolution
  Ben Weinstein

• Interlude b. Peter and the Special Relationship
  Deborah Cohen, Guy Ortolano and Susan Pedersen

• Part II. Culture, consumption and democratisation in Britain since the nineteenth century

• Interlude c. Olden Times and Changing Times: Museum interpretation and display in twenty-first century Britain
  Rebecca Lyons

• 3 Painting for pleasure: The rise and decline of the amateur artist in Victorian Britain
  Sally Woodcock

• 4 Collecting for the Nation: The National Art Collections Fund and the gallery-visiting public in interwar Britain
  Heidi Egginton

• Interlude d. Professionalisation, publishing and policy: Peter Mandler and the Royal Historical Society
  Margot Finn and Richard Fisher

• Part III. ‘Experts’ and their publics in twentieth-century Britain

• Interlude e. Accountability and double counting in research funding for UK higher education: The case of the Global Challenges Research Fund
  Ambreena Manji

• 5 Reluctant pioneers: British anthropologists amongst the Natives of Modern Japan, c. 1929–1930
  Chika Tonooka

• 6 An American Mass Observer among the natives: Robert Jackson Alexander in World War Two Britain
  Lawrence Black

• 7 Architecture and sociology: Oliver Cox and Mass Observation
  Otto Saumarez Smith

• 8 Re-reading “race relations research”: Journalism, social science, and separateness
  Christopher Hilliard

• Interlude f. The Historical Association, schools, and the history curriculum
  Andrew Stacey-Chapman and Rebecca Sullivan

• 9 ‘Democracy’ and ‘expertise’ in two secondary modern schools in Liverpool, 1930–1967
  Rosie Germain

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Laura Carter (Editor)

Laura Carter is an historian of modern Britain whose work focuses on histories of education, gender, and social change. Her first book, Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (2021) was nominated for the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Book Prize, 2022. She is now working on a project about secondary education and social change in the United Kingdom since 1945.

Freddy Foks (Editor)

Freddy Foks is an historian of the human sciences, migration and modern Britain. His first book is Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (2023). He is now working on a project on subsidised emigration.

Philip Harling (Editor)

Philip Harling is an historian of modern Britain and the British empire whose work focuses on politics, administration, and state formation. He is the author of Rethinking ‘Old Corruption: The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain 1779–1846 (1996), The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction (2001) and Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840–1860 (2024).

Peter Mandler’s interests have swaggered across two centuries and varied sites in modern British history – from the comprehensive school to the country house, from Westminster and Whig salons to the postwar town centre. He has embraced political history, cultural history, intellectual history, and the history of anthropology and the social sciences. His range and rigour are reflected in this fine festschrift, Democratising History. The masterful introduction sets the ample scene. Five ‘interludes’ testify to the exuberant generosity of Mandler’s intellectual fellowship and the energy and grit of his administrative service to the profession and the subject. Nine crisp chapters by Mandler’s former PhD students cover a cornucopia of topics from the mechanics of the art market to public housing, from Victorian ideas of democracy to reckoning with ‘the Orient’, from the secondary modern to the new sciences of sociological and anthropological observation. It brims with new research and shiny nuggets. (Who knew that the prostitutes of the wartime West End were known as ‘Piccadilly Commandoes’?) This collection is a fitting monument to Mandler’s unique contribution to the history profession, but also to his intellectual reach, or rather (to use a term he popularised) his ‘throw’.
— Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Subject: History

BISAC codes: HIS015060, HIS015070, HIS035000, HIS054000

Thema codes: NHTB

Keywords: Intellectual History, Modern Britain, Progress, Victorian, culture, democracy, education, empire, experts, historian, profession, society, university

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