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British Cultural Industries and the Post-War Settlement

Duck and the Diesel Engine (1958)
The rivalry between the two characters at the heart of this book encapsulated the contest between competing versions of the British railway system’s…
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‘It Laughs with and at the English’
Passport to Pimlico’s contemporary reviews stressed the film’s qualities as a specifically national form of comedy, while also relishing its…
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Ealing Plots (Part II)
After the war ended, Ealing’s comedies and dramas continued to bear the narrative hallmarks of the films it had made about the conflict.
Ealing Plots (Part I)
The Second World War was the formative period for Ealing Studios under Michael Balcon, and the nascent mythologisation of the conflict became embedded…
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The Making of the Political Economy of Post-War English Professional Football
English professional football had long functioned as a closed political economy, but changing circumstance after the Second World War resulted in its…
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The Political and Moral Economies of Post-War British Culture
The transformation of Britain’s political economy during and after the Second World War likewise reshaped its cultural industries, and the moral…
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Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Passport to Pimlico is often seen retrospectively as whimsical, but drafts of earlier versions of the film demonstrate a more sharply political edge.
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Troublesome Engines (1950)
The Rev. W. Awdry’s Troublesome Engines centred on a Christianised notion of moral economy, in which industrial action was pitted against unitary…
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Dion Georgiou
Service Games
Reading footballers’ autobiographies from between the 1940s and 1960s, and their accounts of national service, offers a useful insight into the hard…
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Ealing Studios (1977)
Published in the mid-1970s, Charles Barr’s Ealing Studios was a key text in the development of British film studies, but also embodied the declinist…
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