As today’s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further insights from the interviews and photographs of celebrated social scientists such as Peter Townsend, whose work helped transform care of the aged. A comprehensive and sensitive examination of the creative pursuits, family relations, work lives, health, and living conditions of the elderly, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain charts the determined efforts of aging Britons to shape public understandings of old age in the modern era.
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From the Inside Flap
“ Charlotte Greenhalgh’s Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain makes a signal contribution to modern British history by recovering the lives, voices, and agency of the elderly in the twentieth century. It is an acute and moving account of people who have been, until now, largely left out of the historical narrative.”—Stephen Brooke, author of Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day
“ Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain is an outstanding history of the emotional, social, institutional, family, embodied, and narrated lives of older people across twentieth-century Britain. It demonstrates not just that older lives matter historically but also that old age is itself historically contingent and has been actively constituted in tandem with particular welfare and medical discourses. This is an important and innovative book based on meticulous scholarship and a sensitive reading of sources.”—Claire Langhamer, author of The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution
“This important and highly original book takes the history of both old age and social research in new directions. Imaginative and innovative throughout, it is particularly noteworthy for offering a careful reanalysis of the social research testimony collected directly from elderly people in the past. The result is that these people’s lives are understood on their own terms, rather than through the prism of social policy debates or the claims of social science experts.”—Jon Lawrence, Associate Professor in History, University of Exeter
About the Author
Charlotte Greenhalgh is Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and teaches history at Monash University in Melbourne.

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Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain (Berkeley Series in British Studies Book 13)

Greenhalgh, Charlotte

Berkeley series in British studies, 12, Oakland, California, 2018

University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2018

United States, United States of America

First, 2018-06-15

Jun 15, 2018

1, PT, 2018

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lg2461481

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URN:ISBN:978-0-520-29878-1

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Source title: Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain (Berkeley Series in British Studies)

"This book provides the first comprehensive study of the emotional, social, institutional, family, embodied and narrated lives of older people across twentieth century Britain. It demonstrates not just that older lives matter historically but also that old age is itself historically contingent and has been actively constituted in tandem with particular welfare and medical discourses. It also offers important insights into the ways in which social scientists constituted the topics of their research through their need to extrapolate from experience to abstraction, for the purposes of policy recommendation. In fact, it suggests the near impossibility of the task that social science set itself in this period: to respect individual experience while moving beyond it. Finally, the book feeds into broader historiographical discussions concerning the relationship between the 'expert' and 'experience' in this period. Returning to the data generated alongside the resulting analysis, Greenhalgh places the understandings ... and lived experiences ... of individuals within this broad age category center stage in a way that is both moving and intellectually enlightening"--Provided by publisher

As today&rsquo;s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further insights from the interviews and photographs of celebrated social scientists such as Peter Townsend, whose work helped transform care of the aged. A comprehensive and sensitive examination of the creative pursuits, family relations, work lives, health, and living conditions of the elderly, <I>Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain</I> charts the determined efforts of aging Britons to shape public understandings of old age in the modern era.

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