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Consensus, order and the social history of modern Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2010

Geoffrey Crossick
Geoffrey Crossick
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University of Essex
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The Historical Journal , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , December 1992 , pp. 945 - 951
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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1 Hudson, P., ed., Regions and industries (Cambridge, 1990) is a recent drawing together of work in this areaGoogle Scholar.

2 See for example Colls, R. and Dodd, P., eds., Englishness, politics and adturt 1880-1920 (London, 1986)Google Scholar.

3 For a sustained consideration of the construction of regional images tee Gareth Stedman Jones, ‘The “cockney” and the nation, 1780-1988’, in Feldman, D. and Jones, G. Stedman, eds., Metropolis London. Histories and representations since 1800 (London, 1989)Google Scholar.

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5 Only M. J. Daunton's essay on housing is constructed around a wider European comparison.

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7 It should be noted that other social categories similarly slip through the net – there are no sustained discussions of professions, the lower middle class, civil servants, or fanners (neglected even in Armstrong's essay on the countryside, except in terms of economic activity).

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