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The home front in Britain : images, myths and forgotten experiences since 1914 /

This collection of fourteen, academically rigorous and accessible chapters explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WWI. The wide range of case studies include war widows allowances, Landgirls, the role of factory inspectors in WWI and canal boat women, national sa...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Andrews, Maggie (Editor), Lomas, Janis (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Great Britain > History > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women in war > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
HISTORY > Military > World War I.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.