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Next, Laura Quinton reads a a timely addition to the scholarship on culture and everyday life in interwar Britain, in "Dancing in the English Style: Consumption, Americanisation and National Identity in Britain, 1918–1950" by Allison Abra https://t.co/HRtF1J0ucC

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@tcbhjournal Pimlott Lecture 2021 @KennettaPerry Kennetta Hammond Perry, "David Oluwale's Britain: A Political History of Black Life" 7 July, 3pm. Free, but please register: https://t.co/iumAjEBUIj

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Chris Bell review's @dmorganowen's 'The Fear of Invasion: Strategy, Politics and British War Planning, 1880–1914', which represents "a major correction to the orthodox interpretation of British naval policy" https://t.co/lmVZkFwOGi

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.@DrAEFox praises "Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914–1918" by Brian N. Hall - a thorough examination of the often overlooked subject of communications, and how they shaped the British war effort https://t.co/R8twEdDfoY

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.@benjamin__bland admires Matthew Worely's "No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984" - a scholarly examination of the complexities of the cultural and political moment that shaped, and was shaped by, Punk https://t.co/KveRI8PdsO

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.@samwetherell admires Wendy Webster's "Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain" as "a rich and vivid account of the tensions and relationships forged as British people became became increasingly exposed to people from across the world" https://t.co/Gizg42Fuab

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.@evemworth explores the conservatism of technology in "Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing", by Marie Hicks https://t.co/6WrHNAmD0M

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And, last one for today, @DrLeeworthy enjoys "Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880–1939. By Robert Snape" which moves 'voluntary action' history beyond a subfield, establishing its importance to accounts of everyday life in Britain https://t.co/o8o5zo7pMp

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Then, @dacretu examines Michelle Tusan's "The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill", a 'tour de force' that draws on an impressively wide range of sources https://t.co/Ymuc3Fn656

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Obi B. Egbuna, C. L. R. James and the Birth of Black Power in Britain: Black Radicalism in Britain 1967–7, by R. E. R. Bunce, Paul Field, introduces us to the transnational nature of anti-racism campaigns in modern Britain https://t.co/ROe6d2FaeH