Prime Time

A History of the Middle Aged in Twentieth-Century Britain

John Benson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317890447
• Topic: Geschichte
• Subtopic: Sozialgeschichte

Numerous studies consider the history of childhood, adolescence and old age, yet the middle aged, consistently the most productive and powerful of age groups have been consistently ignored. In this pioneering study John Benson considers how perceptions and experience of middle age have changed, and how its power-base has diminished, affected by the steady ageing of the population the increasing independence of the yound and growing economic insecurity. This thought-provoking study also illuminates the whole economic, social and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain.

Index

• ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ 26, 104
• academic study of middle age 1–4, 52, 71
• adolescents and adolescence 1–2, 28, 44, 48, 61, 70–1, 74, 94–6, 101–5, 107–11, 114, 116, 133–5
• agony aunts
  • Eyles, Mrs 98
  • Home, Evelyn 25, 98, 115–16, 146
  • Ironside, Virginia 52, 110
• alcohol 49, 58, 79
• Amis, Martin 97
• Andrews, Bernice and George Brown 111
• attitudes towards
  • age 125–6, 137–41, 146–52
  • death 138–9
  • generation and generation gap 38, 48, 104, 109, 125, 130, 133–8, 141, 145, 151
  • kinship and neighbourhood ties 141, 149
  • making a will 139–40
  • morality 125–6, 129–31, 143, 150
  • politics 15, 129–33, 140, 144, 150–1
  • security and stability 125–9, 140–1, 149–50
• autobiographical evidence 64, 84, 122–3, 130
• Barber, Lynne 28
• Barnard, Dr Christiaan 97
• Barrow-in-Furness 101–2, 130, 140
• Belbin, R. M. 46
• Bethnal Green 123–4
• Birmingham 65, 112, 148
• Booth, Hartley 3, 97
• Bournemouth...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Meanings and Numbers
• Health
• Work, Wealth and Consumption
• Family Relationships
• Attitudes
• Conclusion
• Appendix: The Wolverhampton Oral History Project
• Index