Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out

Democratising History interrogates the ways in which democracy has transformed modern Britain and how we teach its history. Nine research-led chapters offer new ways to think about the history of democracy in Britain since the early nineteenth century. These are complemented by six interludes that explore the democratising forces at work which are reshaping UK higher education and the professional field of modern British history itself.

Laura Carter is a historian of modern Britain whose work focuses on histories of education, gender, and social change. Her first book is Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979. Freddy Foks is a historian of the human sciences, migration, and modern Britain. His first book is Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain. He is now working on a project on subsidized emigration. Philip Harling is a historian of modern Britain and the British Empire whose work focuses on politics, administration, and state formation. He is the author of Rethinking ’Old Corruption: The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain 1779-1846 and The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction.