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urn:uuid:807cc9a5-b313-4f41-acb2-55c66e43305f 03 15 9781915249920 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Democratising History Modern British History Inside and Out 1 A01 Laura Carter 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. 2 B01 Freddy Foks 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. 3 B01 Philip Harling 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). 01 eng 10 HIS035000 23 History 23 Modern Britain 10 HIS015060 23 Progress 23 Empire 10 HIS015070 23 Democracy 10 HIS054000 23 Experts 23 Historian 23 Education 23 University 23 Victorian 23 Culture 23 Intellectual History 23 Profession 23 Society 01 06 03 00 <bold>An exploration of the intersections of politics and public engagement, <italic>Democratising History</italic> reveals how history itself has been shaped by democratic forces.</bold>How has democracy transformed modern Britain and the way we teach its history? <italic>Democratising History</italic> answers this question by showcasing how scholars have successfully united social and cultural histories of democracy in British history. Nine research-led chapters provide an ‘inside’ perspective on democracy in modern British history, covering the complex relationship between Britain and its Empire, the democratisation of metropolitan culture, and how experts aimed to inform public debate in a changing democratic society. An ‘outside’ perspective is brought by six interludes that engage with the democratising forces at work in the twenty-first-century academy that are reshaping the profession, and thus the histories that scholars produce. In bringing these two histories of democracy together within a single conceptual framework, this book narrates an important shift in the landscape of UK higher education from the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’, insisting that professional and intellectual changes must be seen alongside one another. Collectively, this volume responds to the scholarly and professional contributions of Peter Mandler, whose sensitive readings of cultural discourses and their social reach has inspired a generation of modern British historians. Through novel methods, insightful case studies and broader reflections on the profession, it shows how modern British history is being transformed by these questions and wider social and economic changes in contemporary Britain. 04 00 <ul> <li> Introduction: Democratising history inside and out Laura Carter and Freddy Foks </li> <li> Interlude a. New Challenges: Teaching Modern History in a ‘new university’ Iwan Morgan </li> <li> Part I. Victorian Britain, progress, and the wider world </li> <li> 1 Opium, ‘civilisation’, and the Anglo-Chinese Wars, 1839–1860 Philip Harling </li> <li> 2 Archibald Alison’s Revolution Ben Weinstein </li> <li> Interlude b. Peter and the Special Relationship Deborah Cohen, Guy Ortolano and Susan Pedersen </li> <li> Part II. Culture, consumption and democratisation in Britain since the nineteenth century </li> <li> Interlude c. Olden Times and Changing Times: Museum interpretation and display in twenty-first century Britain Rebecca Lyons </li> <li> 3 Painting for pleasure: The rise and decline of the amateur artist in Victorian Britain Sally Woodcock </li> <li> 4 Collecting for the Nation: The National Art Collections Fund and the gallery-visiting public in interwar Britain Heidi Egginton </li> <li> Interlude d. Professionalisation, publishing and policy: Peter Mandler and the Royal Historical Society Margot Finn and Richard Fisher </li> <li> Part III. ‘Experts’ and their publics in twentieth-century Britain </li> <li> Interlude e. Accountability and double counting in research funding for UK higher education: The case of the Global Challenges Research Fund Ambreena Manji </li> <li> 5 Reluctant pioneers: British anthropologists amongst the Natives of Modern Japan, c. 1929–1930 Chika Tonooka </li> <li> 6 An American Mass Observer among the natives: Robert Jackson Alexander in World War Two Britain Lawrence Black </li> <li> 7 Architecture and sociology: Oliver Cox and Mass Observation Otto Saumarez Smith </li> <li> 8 Re-reading “race relations research”: Journalism, social science, and separateness Christopher Hilliard </li> <li> Interlude f. The Historical Association, schools, and the history curriculum Andrew Stacey-Chapman and Rebecca Sullivan </li> <li> 9 ‘Democracy’ and ‘expertise’ in two secondary modern schools in Liverpool, 1930–1967 Rosie Germain </li> </ul> University of London Press 01 University of London Press 04 01 20250807 02 WORLD 06 15 9781915249906 06 15 9781915249890 06 15 9781915249920 WORLD 09 University of London Press 20 01