Matthew Hilton (historian)

Career

Research

Books

• Smoking in British Popular Culture, 1800–2000.
• The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America.
• Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement.
• The Expert Consumer: Associations and Professionals in Consumer Society.
• NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-state Actors in Society and Politics since 1945.
• Choice and Justice: Forty Years of the Malaysian Consumer Movement.
• Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalisation.
• The Ages of Voluntarism: Evolution and Change in Modern British Voluntary Action.
• , A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain: Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945.
• The Politics of Expertise: How NGOs Shaped Modern Britain.
• Cultural Studies 50 Years On.

  Journals

• "'Tabs', 'Fags' and the 'Boy Labour Problem' in Late Victorian and Edwardian England", Journal of Social History, vol. 28, issue 3, pp. 587–608.
• "The female consumer and the politics of consumption in twentieth-century Britain", Historical Journal, vol. 45, issue 1, pp. 103–128.
• "The fable of the sheep; or private virtues, public vices: the consumer revolution of the twentieth century", Past & Present, vol. 176, pp. 222–256.
• "The legacy of luxury: moralities of consumption since the eighteenth century", Journal of Consumer Culture, vol. 4, issue 1, pp. 101–123.
• "Consumerism, Solidarity and communism: consumer protection and the consumer movement in Poland", Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 42, issue 2, pp. 315–343.
• "Social activism in an age of consumption: the organised consumer movement", Social History, vol. 32, issue 2, pp. 121–143.
• "The consumer movement and civil society in Malaysia", International Review of Social History, vol. 52, issue 3, pp. 373–406.
• "The death of consumer society", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. 18, pp. 211–236.
• "Politics is ordinary: non-governmental organisations and political participation in contemporary Britain", Twentieth-Century British History, vol. 22, pp. 230–268.
• "Ken Loach and the Save the Children Film: humanitarianism, imperialism and the changing role of charity in postwar Britain", Journal of Modern History, vol. 87, issue 2, pp. 357–394
• "The working practices of Birmingham’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies", Social History, vol. 40, issue 3, pp. 287–311.
• "Charity, decolonisation and development: the case of the Starehe Boys School, Nairobi", Past & Present.