Ben Mechen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality / political ecologies
Becoming a Woman: And Other Essays in 19th and 20th Century Feminist History
Sally AlexanderBen Mechen@HannahLC88 @hammock_tussock @20s30sNetwork @TricksterPrince @_zoethomas Hi Mo. Slightly different vibe but I really recommend Sally Alexander's imaginative reconstruction/essay 'Becoming a Woman in London in the 1920s and 30s' on this, good on both making/buying clothes and relation between.
Paperback, 1995
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The Ambassadors
Franklin RossBen Mechen@_zoethomas This year I read Sylvia Townsend Warner 'Summer Will Show' and Henry James 'The Ambassadors' and really enjoyed both!
Paperback, 2015
$8.40Member price:$4.20 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lamaze: An International History
Paula A. MichaelsBen Mechen@jenny_crane 100%. Definitely quite a regular gospel of NCT classes anyway. Look forward to reading this when you finish it! I also remember a good LRB essay about this a while ago. just looked it up and it’s by Eliane Glaser and it’s a review of Paula Michaels’ excellent book on Lamaze.
Paperback, 2017
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The Ambassadors
Henry JamesBen Mechen@_zoethomas This year I read Sylvia Townsend Warner 'Summer Will Show' and Henry James 'The Ambassadors' and really enjoyed both!
Paperback, 2008
$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Writings on Media: History of the Present
Stuart HallBen Mechen@phoebeemyers Hey, yes, I managed to photograph the article in the end when the British Library reopened last year. DM your email address and I'll send. It's also just been republished in Stuart Hall, Writings on Media (Duke University Press, 2021)
Hardcover, 2021
$107.95Member price:$102.55 + Free shipping5% off
Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas and Movements
Mike FinnBen Mechen@sbriercliffe @jack_saundrs @wrkclasshistory Mike Finn’s book Debating Anarchism has an introduction that usefully goes into what an anarchist history might look like - while the rest of the book is a history of anarchism as set of ideas, practices, movements etc
Hardcover, 2021
$90.00Member price:$90.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Summer Will Show
Sylvia Townsend WarnerBen Mechen@_zoethomas This year I read Sylvia Townsend Warner 'Summer Will Show' and Henry James 'The Ambassadors' and really enjoyed both!
Paperback, 2009
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Social History of Medicine: Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750-1950
Joan LaneBen MechenGreat end to the week to see this brilliant article on 1970s bodies, magazines and selfhood out there. It's part of a forthcoming special issue of Social History of Medicine on "sexpertise" edited by me, @callingdrjones_ and @HannahLC88 - more to come! https://t.co/qNsFBsuTsX
Paperback, 2009
$56.99Member price:$54.14 + Free shipping5% off
The Entertainer
John OsborneBen Mechen@sadhistorygeek @carter740 Death of music hall seemed to haunt postwar generation actually: John Osborne's The Entertainer, Pinter's comedy of menace riffs on it, Colin Macinnes wrote a good popular history called Sweet Saturday Night in late-60s.
Paperback, 2015
$13.95Member price:$13.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance
Peter LinebaughBen Mechen@sbriercliffe @jack_saundrs @wrkclasshistory Maybe also some of Peter Linebaugh’s books eg Stop Thief on the history of the commons
Paperback, 2014
$24.95Member price:$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book