Charlotte Greenhalgh
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520298781
- eISBN:
- 9780520970809
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520298781.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Researchers and policymakers became increasingly interested in improving the lives of older Britons over the course of the twentieth century. Expert attention was first drawn to the particular ...
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Researchers and policymakers became increasingly interested in improving the lives of older Britons over the course of the twentieth century. Expert attention was first drawn to the particular poverty of the elderly during the late nineteenth century. Charles Booth both surveyed elderly paupers and argued for state pensions (introduced in Britain in 1908) in order to alleviate their poverty. Subsequently, the growing popularity of psychology encouraged greater attention to the private lives of the aged. Postwar reformers contributed to the expansion of welfare services for older Britons after 1945 and aimed to improve their inner lives. Yet many researchers still omitted the testimony of the old from their studies. Postwar research became skewed towards problems that the state welfare system could solve.Less
Researchers and policymakers became increasingly interested in improving the lives of older Britons over the course of the twentieth century. Expert attention was first drawn to the particular poverty of the elderly during the late nineteenth century. Charles Booth both surveyed elderly paupers and argued for state pensions (introduced in Britain in 1908) in order to alleviate their poverty. Subsequently, the growing popularity of psychology encouraged greater attention to the private lives of the aged. Postwar reformers contributed to the expansion of welfare services for older Britons after 1945 and aimed to improve their inner lives. Yet many researchers still omitted the testimony of the old from their studies. Postwar research became skewed towards problems that the state welfare system could solve.
Brenton J. Malin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038051
- eISBN:
- 9780252095320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038051.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter considers links between media and emotion in a modern American context. It traces certain understandings of emotion in order to tell a story about how American media critics have ...
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This chapter considers links between media and emotion in a modern American context. It traces certain understandings of emotion in order to tell a story about how American media critics have wrestled with questions of the affective life. The chapter shows some thinking about emotion and media that preceded the explosion of mass media and mass media criticism in the early twentieth century, before laying out some key popular and academic understandings of media from the early twentieth century. From here, the chapter turns to late-twentieth-century modifications and extensions of these ideas and then discusses their continued relevance at the dawn of the twenty-first century.Less
This chapter considers links between media and emotion in a modern American context. It traces certain understandings of emotion in order to tell a story about how American media critics have wrestled with questions of the affective life. The chapter shows some thinking about emotion and media that preceded the explosion of mass media and mass media criticism in the early twentieth century, before laying out some key popular and academic understandings of media from the early twentieth century. From here, the chapter turns to late-twentieth-century modifications and extensions of these ideas and then discusses their continued relevance at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Charlotte Greenhalgh
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520298781
- eISBN:
- 9780520970809
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520298781.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Postwar social changes ranging from slum clearances to full employment sparked public interest in working-class lives during the first half of the twentieth century. From the late 1950s, technical ...
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Postwar social changes ranging from slum clearances to full employment sparked public interest in working-class lives during the first half of the twentieth century. From the late 1950s, technical developments including lithography and offset printing lowered the cost of printing and increased its speed. Community presses published newly diverse autobiographies. Older authors described youthful scenes that were set in the distant past and parsed social changes that had occurred over half a century or more. Many among them knew that memories were unreliable but found that the past constantly intruded on the present. Later life delivered new perspectives on childhoods that featured deprivation and violence as well as joy, and elderly autobiographers were quick to celebrate the achievements of the present.Less
Postwar social changes ranging from slum clearances to full employment sparked public interest in working-class lives during the first half of the twentieth century. From the late 1950s, technical developments including lithography and offset printing lowered the cost of printing and increased its speed. Community presses published newly diverse autobiographies. Older authors described youthful scenes that were set in the distant past and parsed social changes that had occurred over half a century or more. Many among them knew that memories were unreliable but found that the past constantly intruded on the present. Later life delivered new perspectives on childhoods that featured deprivation and violence as well as joy, and elderly autobiographers were quick to celebrate the achievements of the present.
