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The Home Front in Britain

Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences since 1914

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Editors:
  1. Maggie Andrews

    1. University of Worcester, UK

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  2. Janis Lomas

    1. Independent Scholar, UK

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  • Brings together a range of new academic work by both established and emerging scholars which will encourage a reappraisal of the place of the Home Front in British conceptualisations of war and conflict

  • Showcases work which critically analyses the meaning and images of the British home and family in times war and conflict

  • Sheds light on topics and themes that have been neglected in popular representations of the home front

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Maggie Andrews, Janis Lomas
    Pages 1-5

  3. Ideas and Ideals of Domesticity and Home in the First World War

    • Maggie Andrews
    Pages 6-20

  4. A Personal Account of the Home Front

    • Angela Clare Smith
    Pages 21-38

  5. Soldiering On: War Widows in First World War Britain

    • Janis Lomas
    Pages 39-56

  6. Mortality or Morality? Keeping Workers Safe in the First World War

    • Anne Spurgeon
    Pages 57-72

  7. A Heroine at Home: The Housewife on the First World War Home Front

    • Karen Hunt
    Pages 73-91

  8. Female Agricultural Workers in Wales in the First World War

    • Thomas George
    Pages 92-107

  9. Ellen Wilkinson and Home Security 1940–1945

    • Paula Bartley
    Pages 108-138

  10. Guernsey Mothers and Children: Forgotten Evacuees

    • Gillian Mawson
    Pages 139-151

  11. The Home Front as a ‘Moment’ for Animals and Humans: Exploring the Animal-Human Relationship in Contemporary Diaries and Letters

    • Hilda Kean
    Pages 152-169

  12. The Weak and the Wicked: Non-Conscripted Masculinities in 1940s British Cinema

    • Paul Elliott
    Pages 170-184

  13. Second World War Rationing: Creativity and Buying to Last

    • Elspeth King, Maggie Andrews
    Pages 185-200

  14. Idle Women: Challenging Gender Stereotypes on Britain’s Inland Waterways During the Second World War

    • Barbara Hately-Broad, Bob Moore
    Pages 201-216

  15. ‘Doing Your Bit’: Women and the National Savings Movement in the Second World War

    • Rosalind Watkiss Singleton
    Pages 217-231

  16. Contemporary Images and Ideas of the Home Front

    • Maggie Andrews
    Pages 232-244

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 245-246
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About this book

The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the meaning and images of the British home and family in times war, challenging prevalent myths of how working and domestic life was shifted by national conflict.

Reviews

“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Worcester, UK

    Maggie Andrews

  • Independent Scholar, UK

    Janis Lomas

About the editors

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

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