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| Biographical Info of Lawrence E. BlackLawrence Black is a visiting professor in 2010-11 as part of an exchange with the history department at Durham University, UK - http://www.dur.ac.uk/history/ He teaches modern political and cultural history and has mainly written on the history of British political culture. His latest book, Redefining British Politics: consumerism, culture and participation, 1954-70 (2010), samples interactions between social movements and political parties with socio-cultural change to interrogate notions of activism, apathy, post-materialism and the identities and practices forged in the context of post-1950s affluence. With Nicole Robertson he co-edited Taking Stock (2009), exploring the history of Co-operatives and consumerism in Britain and Europe. He is working on a book for OUP about shopping in 20th century America and Britain and collaborating with Hugh Pemberton on the history of 1970s Britain and Steven Fielding on a new political history of Britain. He is an editorial board member of the journals Twentieth Century British History and Contemporary British History, a former Fulbright scholar and in 2009 was a Fellow at Harvard’s Center for European Studies. | |
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