The Home Front in Britain: Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences Since 1914

ISBN-13: 9781137348975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 246 str.

Maggie Andrews; Janis Lomas

Opis

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 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.

Recenzje

"This is a rich and potent mix of topics that both enhances our knowledge of the wars and, perhaps more significantly, suggests yet more avenues for future research. ... This book in its wide-ranging survey is certainly 'doing its bit' to challenge some of the misconceptions we hold about the two home fronts, opens up discussion on several hitherto neglected aspects and adds significantly to our knowledge." (Peter Grant, Review in History, history.ac.uk, April, 2016)

Spis treści

Introduction; Maggie Andrews and Janis Lomas 1. The Idea and Ideal of Domesticity and Home in WW1; Maggie Andrews 2. A Personal Account of The Home Front; Angela Clare Smith 3. Soldiering on: War Widows in WW1 Britain; Janis Lomas 4. Mortality or Morality? Keeping Workers Safe in World War One; Anne Spurgeon 5. A Heroine at Home: The Housewife on the WW1 Home Front; Karen Hunt 6. Female Agricultural Workers in Wales in WW1; Thomas George 7. Ellen Wilkinson and Home Security; Paula Bartley 8. Guernsey Mothers and Children: Forgotten Evacuees; Gillian Mawson 9. The Home Front as a 'Moment' for Animals and Humans: Exploring the Animal - Human Relationship in Contemporary Diaries and Letters; Hilda Kean 10. The Weak and the Wicked: Non-Conscripted Masculinities in 1940s British Cinema; Paul Elliott 11. Rationing in WW2: Creativity and Buying to Last; Elspeth King and Maggie Andrews 12. The 'Idle Women': Breaking Gender Stereotypes on Britain's Inland Waterways During the Second World War; Barbara Hately-Broad and Bob Moore 13. 'Doing Your Bit': Women and the National Savings Movement in the Second World War; Rosalind Watkiss Singleton 14. Contemporary Images and Ideas of the Home Front; Maggie Andrews

O autorze

Dr. Paula Bartley, University of Wolverhampton, UK Dr. Paul Elliott, University of Worcester, UK Thomas George, Cardiff University, Wales Dr. Barbara Hately-Broad, University of Sheffield, UK Professor Karen Hunt, Keele University, UK Dr. Hilda Kean, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Elspeth King, University of Worcester, UK Gillian Mawson, University of Manchester, UK Professor Bob Moore, University of Sheffield, UK Dr. Rosalind Watkiss Singleton, University of Wolverhampton and Ruskin College, UK Angela Clare Smith, Heritage Museums across the UK Dr. Anne Spurgeon, University of Birmingham, UK