During the last days of peace in 1939 nearly two million people, most of them children, were evacuated from British cities, towns and ports to the countryside, or across the Atlantic to the USA and Canada. Whole schools were evacuated together and found themselves billeted in large country houses. Others were sent off individually or in small groups to whoever had space to put them up. It was a time of great upheaval and the transition from city life to countryside often proved extremely stressful.
This is a concise history of British evacuation during the Second World War, including...
During the last days of peace in 1939 nearly two million people, most of them children, were evacuated from British cities, towns and ports to the ...
Covering the standout social, cultural, political events, and news stories from the 1960s The 1960s have gone down in history as the swinging sixties, when the permissive society swept the country in a haze of mini-skirts, psychedelic posters, pop festivals, and "love-ins." But what was it really like for ordinary British people? In this book, Mike Brown looks at some of the major aspects of living in Britain at the time: how people lived, worked, and played, how they shopped, what they ate, wore, drove, watched, and listened to. He looks at the stories and people who made the headlines; the...
Covering the standout social, cultural, political events, and news stories from the 1960s The 1960s have gone down in history as the swinging sixties,...
Despite the fact that the sea covers 70 per cent of the Earth's surface, and is integral to the workings of the world, it has been largely neglected or perceived as marginal in modern consciousness. This edited collection disrupts notions of the sea as 'other', as foreign and featureless, through specific, situated accounts which highlight the centrality of the sea for the individuals concerned. Bringing together academics who combine scholarly expertise with lived experiences on, in and with the sea, it examines humans' relationships with the sea. Through the use of auto-ethnographic...
Despite the fact that the sea covers 70 per cent of the Earth's surface, and is integral to the workings of the world, it has been largely neglected o...
