The Home Front in Britain
Subtitle: Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences since 1914
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 31, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781137348982
Description: "This collection of fourteen, 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 and 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"--
Notes: Source title: The Home Front in Britain: Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences since 1914