Overview
- 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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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.
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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
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Home Front in Britain
Book Subtitle: Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences since 1914
Editors: Maggie Andrews, Janis Lomas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137348999
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34898-2Published: 31 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34897-5Published: 31 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34899-9Published: 29 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 246
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, History of Military, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Modern History, US Politics