Working-Class Life in Northern England, 1945–2010

1. Introduction: Working-Class Life in the Twentieth-Century Interregnum

1. Introduction: Working-Class Life in the Twentieth-Century Interregnum
Tony Blackshaw

Part I. Some Considerations of Method

2. Walking with My Thesis: Thinking with Feeling, Cultural Fall, Paradise Lost, ‘Pure Event’ and Some Other Characteristics of a Hermeneutical Exercise
Tony Blackshaw

3. Location in the Intellectual Landscape: The Methodological, Theoretical and Metaphysical Orientation of the Present Study
Tony Blackshaw

Part II. The Inbetweeners, Then and Now

4. That Was Then: Unpacking a Sensible World
Tony Blackshaw

5. Certain Aspects of the Interregnum: Disrupting the Reigning Structures of Historical Time and Order
Tony Blackshaw

6. This Is Now: A World Inhospitable to Inbetweeners and Some Strategies for Living between Worlds
Tony Blackshaw

7. Postscript
Tony Blackshaw

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social History, Modern History