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People, places and identities

Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Introduction: Alan Kidd and Melanie Tebbutt

1 Administrative practices and the ‘middling sort’: place, practice and identity in eighteenth-century rural England: Alistair Mutch

2 Local history enthusiasts: English county historical societies since the nineteenth century: Alan Kidd

3 Memorial mania: remembering and forgetting Sir Robert Peel: Terry Wyke

4 Fifty years ahead of its time? The provident dispensaries movement in Manchester, 1871–85: Martin Hewitt

5 Daddy, what did you find to laugh about in the Great War? The cotton cartoons of Sam Fitton: Alan Fowler

6 Voluntary action in the ‘welfare state’: the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Child: Pat Thane

7 The continuing tradition of civic pride: municipal culture in post-war Manchester: Peter Shapely

8 From ‘marriage bureau’ to ‘points of view’: changing patterns of advice in teenage magazines: Mirabelle, 1956–77: Melanie Tebbutt

9 ‘Hoping you’ll give me some guidance about this thing called money’: the Daily Mirror and personal finance, c. 1960–81:Dilwyn Porter

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