| Contents |
Introduction / Maggie Andrews and Janis Lomas -- 1. Ideas and Ideals of Domesticity and Home in First World War / Maggie Andrews -- 2. A Personal Account of The Home Front / Angela Clare Smith -- 3. Soldiering on: War Widows in First World War Britain / Janis Lomas -- 4. Mortality or Morality? Keeping Workers Safe in First World War / Anne Spurgeon -- 5. A Heroine at Home: The Housewife on the First World War Home Front / Karen Hunt -- 6. Female Agricultural Workers in Wales in the First World War / Thomas George -- 7. Ellen Wilkinson and Home Security 1940-1945 / 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. Second World War Rationing: Creativity and Buying to Last / Elspeth King and Maggie Andrews -- 12. Idle Women: Challenging 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. |
| Abstract |
"This collection of fourteen, academically rigorous and accessible chapters explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. The wide range of case studies include war widows allowances, Landgirls, the role of factory inspectors in WW1 and canal boat women, national savings, Guernsey evacuees and clothes rationing in WW2. The meaning and images of the British home and family in times of war are interrogated in the past and in contemporary culture to challenge prevalent myths of how working and domestic and shifted in times of national conflict. This volume is intended to encourage a reappraisal of the place of the Home Front in British conceptualisations of war and conflict"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Contains plates with illustrations, facsimiles and portraits. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2014025708 |
| ISBN | 9781137348982 hardback : alk. paper |
| ISBN | 1137348984 hardback : alk. paper |
| ISBN | 9781137348975 paperback : alk. paper |
| ISBN | 1137348976 paperback : alk. paper |
