British working-class culture was fundamentally remade between the 1880s and 1920s

Evidence

The more we look at it, the more convinced we become that somewhere in this period lies the matrix of factors and problems from which our history—and our peculiar dilemmas—arise. Everything changes—not just a shift in the relations of forces but a reconstitution of the terrain of political struggle itself. It isn’t just by chance that so many of the characteristic forms of what we now think of as “traditional” popular culture either emerge from or emerge in their distinctive modern form, in that period. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 996

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which specific characteristics of modern ‘traditional’ British popular culture actually date from this 1880s-1920s period? Worth chasing concrete studies.