The home front in Britain : images, myths and forgotten experiences since 1914
2014
Book
This collection of 14, academically rigorous and accessible chapters explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. The wide range of case studies include war widows allowances, Landgirls, the role of factory inspectors in WW1 and canal boat women, national savings, Guernsey evacuees and clothes rationing in WW2. The meaning and images of the British home and family in times of war are interrogated in the past and in contemporary culture to challenge prevalent myths of how working and domestic life shifted in times of national conflict. This volume is intended to encourage a reappraisal of the place of the Home Front in British conceptualisations of war and conflict.
Main title:
The home front in Britain : images, myths and forgotten experiences since 1914 / edited by Maggie Andrews, Janis Lomas.
Author:
Andrews, Maggie, editorLomas, Janis, editor
Imprint:
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations
ISBN:
9781137348975 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.341940.341 AND
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1666821