History (4,528 posts)

They gave the crowd plenty fun: West Indian cricket and its relationship with the British-resident Caribbean Diaspora

Spectrum, trajectory and the role of the state in workers’ self-management

In developing our understanding, we utilise documents from Titoist Yugoslavia, and surveys and case study interviews conducted in Argentina and Venezuel

The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India

Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences

Deprived of touch: How maternal and sensory deprivation theory converged in shaping early debates over autism

In 1943, a distinguished child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, Leo Kanner, published what would become a landmark article: a description of 11 children who suffered from a distinct disorder he called ‘infantile autism’. While initially quite obscure, in the early 1950s Kanner’s report garnered much attention, as clinicians and researchers interpreted these case studies as exemplifying the ill-effects of maternal deprivation, a new theory that rapidly gained currency in the United States.

A brief conceptual history of Einfühlung: 18th-century Germany to post-World War II U.S. psychology.

This brief conceptual history, modeled on Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte, adds to earlier histories of empathy. It showed that Johann Gottfried Herder, not Robert Vischer, invented Einfühlung as an objective scholarly method during 18th-century absolutist–relativist disputes.

OUR BACK PAGES: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SIXTIES Out of the blue: an airman’s unlikely journey through the Vietnam War, the Pentagon and the radical left

An exploratory digital analysis of the early years of G. Stanley Hall’s American Journal of Psychology and Pedagogical Seminary.

Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American women activists in the Cold War

Knowing their Place: domestic service in twentieth-century Britain

Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge

Disorders of inattention and hyperactivity: The production of responsible subjects

This article explores some of the normative commitments which persist in the literature on behavioural interventions for disorders of inattention and hyperactivity.

Foreigners and Women Have the Same Problems: Binational Marriages, Women’s Grassroots Organizing, and the Quest for Legal Equality in Post-1968 Germany

Scandals in the family

The History of Psychology Newsletter, 1969–1997: History and index

The dynamic of family structures in seventeenth-century Moldavia. Adoption and godparenthood

This study analyzes aspects related to family structure and kinship (in particularly, to relations between parents and children, but other types than the blood relations) and the influences they had on seventeenth-century Moldavian society.

The Account of Several Workhouses, 1725

London Lives

1864 Octavia Hill: Social housing and home visits

History of Social Work | North East Nineteenth Century

A centenary conference organised by the National Trust and University of Oxford, Sutton House

Margaret Thatcher had secret plan to use army at height of miners’ strike

Guardian | Pa/PA Archive/Press Association Images

Ranks of police face the picket line at Orgreave Coking Plant near Rotherham in June 1984.

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

Why sociologists abandoned the sick role concept

The concept of the sick role entered sociology in 1951 when Talcott Parsons creatively separated the sick person out of the doctor–patient dyad.

America’s Town Meeting of the Air (1935)

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In this broadcast from December 1935, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins is defending and explaining the recently passed Social Security Act, while journalist George E. Sokolsky is attacking the new legislation.

The Social Work of a Suburban Church (1907)

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Wine drinking school children did poorer school work than abstainers

Brown University Library | Scientific Temperance Federation American Issue Publishing Company

The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada

Despite its unprecedented mass mortality and recent popularity among historians, the 1918–19 Spanish influenza pandemic rarely figures into national histories. Similarly, national, social, and political histories rarely inform histories of this pandemic.

National Institute of Health Plan for Social Work Research: Progress Report (2007)

Review of Cold war social science: Knowledge production, liberal democracy, and human nature, and working knowledge: Making the human sciences from Parsons to Kuhn.

Richard Titmuss: Forty years on

Richard Titmuss was one of the world’s leading public analysts and philosophers. He was enormously influential in shaping the post-war welfare state and created the discipline that we now call social policy. It is now forty years since he died. What would he have made of the present state of welfare? The present state of social policy? Welfare reformers frequently talk of going back to Beveridge. Should we not think of going back to Titmuss?

Death and taxes: understanding the death duty registers

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Advice to a drunken father (1840-60?)

Brown University Library

Arnold Toynbee: University Settlement

History of Social Work

Arnold Toynbee (1852-1881) died before the age of thirty but nevertheless in his short life as a scholar his thinking did much to change how education could be developed through work in the poorer parts of Britain’s cities. He lectured in economic history at Oxford University where he was very critical of the effects of the industrial revolution which he saw emerging all around him.