Title: The Home Front in Britain
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"--
Subjects: World war, 1914-1918, great britain, World war, 1939-1945, great britain, Women in war, Women, social conditions, Great britain, history, 20th century, Great britain, social conditions, Women, great britain, History, World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1939-1945, Social conditions, Women, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, HISTORY / Military / World War I., HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National, Great Britain, Military, World War I., World War II, Modern, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Government, National, Social history, World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924