People Educated at Birkenhead School - Alan Rouse, Andreas Whittam Smith, Andrew Irvine (Mountaineer), Barry Porter, Birkenhead School, Campbell West-W (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Alan Rouse, Andreas Whittam Smith, Andrew Irvine (mountaineer), Barry Porter, Birkenhead School, Campbell West-Watson, Chris Moyes, Crispin Wright, David Hallatt, Donald Allister, Donald Nicholls, Baron Nicholls of Birkenhead, F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, George Frodsham, Gordon Willmer, Graham Richards, Graham Vick, Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, Henry Graham White, Henry Pelling, John Aiken, Karl McCartney, Kevin Sampson (writer), Lance Fortune, Melvill Jones, Michael F. Land, Nevill Willmer, Philip Toosey, Robert Hope-Jones, Timothy Mason, Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, William Wade, Baron Wade of Chorlton. Excerpt: Timothy Wright Mason (2 March 1940 5 March 1990) was a British Marxist historian of Nazi Germany. He was born in Birkenhead, the child of school-teachers and was educated at Birkenhead School and Oxford University. He taught at Oxford from 1971 1984 and was twice married. He helped to found the left-wing journal History Workshop Journal. Mason specialized in the social history of the Third Reich, especially that of the working-class. Mason's most famous books were his 1975 work Arbeiterklasse und Volksgemeinschaft (The Working Class and the National Community), a study of working-class life under the Nazis and his 1977 book, Sozialpolitik im Dritten Reich (Social Policy in the Third Reich). Unusually for a British historian, most of his books were originally published in German first. Mason saw his role as developing history that was flexible, humane and analytical. Mason wrote about the historians' role in 1986: "If historians do have a public responsibility, if hating is part of their method and warning part of their task, it is necessary that they should hate precisely." Mason's interest as a Marxist historian were in writing history that was not deterministic, and in revising the views about fascism. As part of his efforts to develop a broader picture of the Third Reich, Mason approached such topics as women in Nazi Germany, a critique of "intentionalist" views of the Third Reich, and theories of generic fascism as an analytical tool. In Social Policy in the Third Reich, Mason unlike his counterparts in East Germany did not focus just on resistance movements within the German working class, but sought a comprehensive picture of working class life with how the working class viewed itself, and by the Nazi regime. Mason argued that the Nazi leadership was haunted by the memory of the November Revolution of 1918, and so the Nazi dictatorship was prepared to make no small material allowances in the form of social policy, a reluctance to impose material shortages, a