The Home Front in Britain : Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences Since 1914

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. 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-- Machine Generated Contents Note: -- 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. Edited By Maggie Andrews, University Of Worcester, Uk And Janis Lomas, Independent Scholar, Uk. Contains Plates With Illustrations, Facsimiles And Portraits. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction....Pages 1-5 Ideas and Ideals of Domesticity and Home in the First World War....Pages 6-20 A Personal Account of the Home Front....Pages 21-38 Soldiering On: War Widows in First World War Britain....Pages 39-56 Mortality or Morality? Keeping Workers Safe in the First World War....Pages 57-72 A Heroine at Home: The Housewife on the First World War Home Front....Pages 73-91 Female Agricultural Workers in Wales in the First World War....Pages 92-107 Ellen Wilkinson and Home Security 1940–1945....Pages 108-138 Guernsey Mothers and Children: Forgotten Evacuees....Pages 139-151 The Home Front as a ‘Moment’ for Animals and Humans: Exploring the Animal-Human Relationship in Contemporary Diaries and Letters....Pages 152-169 The Weak and the Wicked: Non-Conscripted Masculinities in 1940s British Cinema....Pages 170-184 Second World War Rationing: Creativity and Buying to Last....Pages 185-200 Idle Women: Challenging Gender Stereotypes on Britain’s Inland Waterways During the Second World War....Pages 201-216 ‘Doing Your Bit’: Women and the National Savings Movement in the Second World War....Pages 217-231 Contemporary Images and Ideas of the Home Front....Pages 232-244 Back Matter....Pages 245-246