Did loss of imperial power and the end of empire have any significant impact on metropolitan culture and identity after 1939? Within a burgeoning literature on national identity and Englishness, this is a question that has received surprisingly little attention. Drawing on extensive research in the media archive, Wendy Webster's highly readable study investigates popular narratives of nation, and the significance of empire and its legacies in shaping national identity after 1939. What were the tensions and uncertainties involved in defining a post-imperial nation? How did imperial...
Did loss of imperial power and the end of empire have any significant impact on metropolitan culture and identity after 1939? Within a burgeoning lite...
Imagining Home offers a unique examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. In exploring the relationship between gender, 'race' and national identity, it higlights the continuing importance of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of decolonization. Analyzing the significance of colonialism and racism in shaping ideas of motherhood, employment and domestictiy, it traces the process by which Englishness was increasingly associated with domestic order, and the home and family constructed as...
Imagining Home offers a unique examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial po...
Was the British empire given away in a fit of collective indifference? This work looks at connections between stories of empire told in the media - the Second World War, the Coronation and Everest, colonial wars of the 1950s, immigration, Winston Churchill's funeral - and contributes to debates about the domestic consequences of the end of empire.
Was the British empire given away in a fit of collective indifference? This work looks at connections between stories of empire told in the media - th...
Mr Cartermann's garden isn't just like any garden. It's a garden to stay out of trouble and to get into contact with fairies. But not every fairy is good and peace loving. Evil fairies are unleashing situations, animals and characters from fiction all over Great Britain, leaving the books with blank pages. Ron, trying to overcome his low self-esteem and Amelia, growing up, out and under the tight regime of her father, set about trying to restore order. This proves to be difficult when heavy snowstorms burst out over the country and a Hound, looking very much like an ugly terrifying dinosaur,...
Mr Cartermann's garden isn't just like any garden. It's a garden to stay out of trouble and to get into contact with fairies. But not every fairy is g...
During World War Two, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war. Mixing It tells the extraordinary tales of immigrants who contributed to the British war effort, and uncovers the forgotten history of the role WWII played in the making of multiethnic Britain.
During World War Two, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war. Mixing...
