All Outputs (9)

Taskscapes and community in rural Yorkshire, 1920-1965 (2021)
Journal Article
Ramsden, S., & Rowling, J. (2021). Taskscapes and community in rural Yorkshire, 1920-1965. The Agricultural history review, 69(1), 111-131

Using the framework of Tim Ingold’s concept of ‘taskscape’, this article seeks to address the role of work in shaping the dynamics of rural community in the mid-twentieth century. We do this by examining oral histories of two communities which have i... Read More about Taskscapes and community in rural Yorkshire, 1920-1965.

First aid and voluntarism in England, 1945-­85 (2019)
Journal Article
Ramsden, S., & Cresswell, R. (2019). First aid and voluntarism in England, 1945-­85. Twentieth Century British History, 30(4), 504-530. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwy043

First aid was the focus of growing voluntary activity in the post-war decades. Despite the advent of the National Health Service in 1948, increased numbers of people volunteered to learn, teach, and administer first aid as concern about health and sa... Read More about First aid and voluntarism in England, 1945-­85.

‘Class, politics and the decline of deference in England, 1968–2000’ (2018)
Journal Article
Ramsden, S. (2018). ‘Class, politics and the decline of deference in England, 1968–2000’. Contemporary British History, 32(4), 570-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2019.1568693

‘When the Girls Come Out to Play: teenage working-class girls’ leisure between the wars’ (2018)
Journal Article
Ramsden, S. (2018). ‘When the Girls Come Out to Play: teenage working-class girls’ leisure between the wars’. Social History, 43(3), 418-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2018.1477329

Working-class community in the age of affluence (2017)
Book
Ramsden, S. (2017). Working-class community in the age of affluence. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315462936

It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity. Social investigators documented how the relative aff... Read More about Working-class community in the age of affluence.

‘“The community spirit was a wonderful thing.” On nostalgia and the politics of belonging’ (2016)
Journal Article
Ramsden, S. (2016). ‘“The community spirit was a wonderful thing.” On nostalgia and the politics of belonging’. Oral history, 44(1), 89-97

In this article I draw on oral history interviews about social life in a small town to explore the personal and social implications of nostalgia. Whereas some recent scholarship interprets narratives of lost community in the context of conflicting mo... Read More about ‘“The community spirit was a wonderful thing.” On nostalgia and the politics of belonging’.

The role of the industrial workplace in working-class community, 1945-1980 (2016)
Journal Article
Ramsden, S. (2016). The role of the industrial workplace in working-class community, 1945-1980. Family and Community History, 19(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2016.1144959

Historiography of the post-war working classes has tended to underplay the role of industrial workplaces in the community life of many localities. This article uses an oral history case-study of Beverley, East Yorkshire, to show how industrial workpl... Read More about The role of the industrial workplace in working-class community, 1945-1980.

Remaking working-class community: sociability, belonging and “affluence” in a small town, 1930-1980 (2014)
Journal Article
Ramsden, S. (2015). Remaking working-class community: sociability, belonging and “affluence” in a small town, 1930-1980. Contemporary British History, 29(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2014.951338

Historians' interest in the ways locality shapes and constrains working-class culture has until recently tended to end with the post-war demise of the ‘traditional working-class communities’ thought to have coalesced in British industrial localities... Read More about Remaking working-class community: sociability, belonging and “affluence” in a small town, 1930-1980.

Working class community in the era of affluence : sociability and identity in a Yorkshire town, 1945-1980 (2011)
Thesis
Ramsden, S. Working class community in the era of affluence : sociability and identity in a Yorkshire town, 1945-1980. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4213510

This thesis presents a qualitative case-study of the impact of post-war affluence on working-class ways of life in the small town of Beverley, focussed particularly on sociability and identity. The thesis argues that sociological and historical conce... Read More about Working class community in the era of affluence : sociability and identity in a Yorkshire town, 1945-1980.