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

by Janis Lomas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137348976
• ISBN13: 9781137348975
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"