Mixing It is both a first class scholarly history and a parable for our own day. I doubt if anyone who reads the book will ever picture the home front in quite the same way again
Wendy Webster is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Huddersfield and has published widely on twentieth-century history. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Australian National University and the University of Tasmania. Her previous books include Not A Man to Match Her: The Marketing of a Prime Minister (1990), Imagining Home (1998), and the prize-winning Englishness and Empire (2005). Mixing It is part of a
wider project involving a display at Imperial War Museum North.