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‚All Human Life is There‘: The John Hilton Bureau of the News of the World and Advising the Public, 1942-1969

August 6, 2014, 6:38 p.m., Bradley, K., Allgemein.

This article considers the role of the John Hilton Bureau newspaper advice service, which ran under the auspices of the News of the World between 1942 and the late 1960s. The Bureau merits attention from historians on account of the light it can shed on how ordinary Britons accessed the law, legal and other types of advice before and after the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949. It also provides insight into how relationships between the state and individual differed between the highly regulated wartime state and the supposedly affluent, consumerist welfare state that followed it. The article also argues that the John Hilton Bureau evolved from a service defined by the reputation of the eponymous Hilton, a Cambridge professor and radio personality, to one that saw itself as a crusading organisation standing up for the ‘little man’ against a bureaucratic welfare state and unscrupulous traders. Finally, the Bureau is a reminder that the post-war welfare state was not simply divided between the public and voluntary sectors, but also included an array of private sector interests. The Bureau’s position outside of the public and voluntary sectors enabled it to be a critical and challenging voice, untainted by a sense of charity, but its location within a profit-making organisation also made it vulnerable in the longer term.

Quelle: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/129/539/888?rss=1

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Charters of Glastonbury Abbey, ed. S.E. Kelly

August 6, 2014, 6:38 p.m., Tinti, F., Allgemein.

Quelle: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/129/539/912?rss=1

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Liberalism, Scottish Nationalism and the Home Rule Crisis, c.1886-93

August 6, 2014, 6:38 p.m., Lloyd-Jones, N., Allgemein.

The present scholarly focus on Unionist-nationalism has obscured crucial features of late nineteenth-century Scottish political life. In a period of acute political crisis precipitated by the introduction of William Gladstone’s first Irish Home Rule bill, there emerged a movement for the restoration of an Edinburgh parliament. Led by the Scottish Home Rule Association, campaigners promoted a fundamental reassessment of Scotland’s post-1707 history, and argued that only a reinstated legislature could arrest a process of decay which they associated with the failures of a London-oriented Union. In setting out to demolish what we have come to understand as the Unionist-nationalist case, Home Rulers initially sought assistance from the Liberal party, which had been electorally dominant in Scotland since 1832. Their virulent attacks on the party, its organisational machinery and its leaders are far more illuminating for our understanding of how Liberalism operated after 1886 than has previously been understood.

Quelle: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/129/539/862?rss=1

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