1926, 1984. .. And All That!
13 Steve Humphries, A Secret World of Sex: Forbidden Fruit: The British Experience, 1900–1950, London, 1991, p. 9. 14 Humphries, Secret World, p. 16. 15 Judy Giles, ‘ ‘‘Playing Hard to Get’’: Working-class Women, Sexuality and Respectability in Britain, 1918–40’, Women’s History Review 1: 2, 1992, p. 243. 16 As note 15. 17 Giles ‘‘Playing Hard to Get’’, 16, p. 250. 18 See Eustace Chesser, The Sexual, Marital and Family Relationships of the English Woman, London, Hutchinson, 1956. Geoffrey Gorer, Exploring English Character, London, 1955.
Class, Community, and Collective Action: Social Change in Two British Coalfields, 1850-1926
Part 1 Traditions of community. Part 2 Mining communities and collective action: Kerr and Kiegal - the isolated mass and collective action Olson - small groups and collective action Craig Calhoun - communal collective action mining towns and villages as communities. Part 3 South Wales: the valleys the structure of a local society local politics - the axis of change the decline of Mabonism the miners' next step - class action and local autonomy the reorganization of the union the lodge in its community the strikes of the 1920s the strange death of liberal Wales - a sociological revolution? Part 4 Ynysybwl: the role of the chapels the colliery company in the village the decline of the company's influence and the rise of the lodge labour leaders and community leaders the sociology of Ynysybwl strikes. Part 5 Nottinghamshire: socks and the squirearchy butties and sticky cherries religion and the miners the development of a regional society the political sociology of the coalfield Nottinghamshire in the lockouts the social origins of Spencerism? Part 6 Hucknall: before the mines the coming of the pits John Edward Ellis labour relations and working-class organization Hucknall into the 20th-century strikes and Hucknall. Part 7 Class, community and collective action.
Negotiating the cultural and economic outcomes of sport heritage attractions: the case of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
ABSTRACT Contemporary museums must balance their roles as commercial entities and repositories of various, and often dissonant, heritages and histories. Sports museums in particular often have clear commercial and nostalgic aims, particularly through tourist visitation, though the extent to which they represent more challenging narratives remains unclear. This paper examines how one of the most famous sports museums in the world, the National Baseball Hall of Fame (NBHF) in Cooperstown, New York, balances its dual role as tourist attraction and repository of baseball's sometimes checkered past. It was found that different sections of the museum provide greater or lesser degrees of engagement with more controversial issues, although the commercial outputs and appeal of the museum remains clear throughout. Utlimately, the NBHF demonstrates that balancing veneration and critique in collections can be commercially prosperous, and can provide a template for other sport and popular culture museums who may be wary of incorporating more challenging narratives in their exhibits. Furthermore, the symbiotic relationship between the Hall of Fame and the village of Cooperstown, particularly in creating and maintaining cultural and economic outputs, requires further exploration.