Moments of Modernity : Reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964 Book

	List of Illustrations
	Notes on the Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Jazz at the Spirella: Coming of Age in Coventry in the 1950s	22
2	State-Sponsored Autobiography	41
3	The Commercial Domain: Advertising and the Cultural Management of Demand	55
4	Towards a Modern Labour Market? State Policy and the Transformation of Employment	76
5	Limits of Americanisation: The United States Productivity Gospel in Britain	96
6	Population Politics in Post-War British Culture	114
7	Disorders of the Mind, Disorders of the Body Social: Peter Wildeblood and the Making of the Modern Homosexual	134
8	The Labour Party: Modernisation and the Politics of Restraint	152
9	'New Conservatism'? The Industrial Charter, Modernity and the Reconstruction of British Conservatism after the War	171
10	Reveries of Race: The Closing of the Imperial Moment	189
11	New Towns for Old: The Fate of the Town Centre	208
12	'Here is the Modern World Itself': The Festival of Britain's Representations of the Future	228
	Notes	247
	Index	282