British Society, 1939-1951 - Subject Essays
Peter Ciuffetti
Editorial Board members have written essays that contextualize the primary source material and highlight key themes, topics, and events discussed within British Society, 1939-1951. Facing Armageddon: British society and civil defense, 1939-1945, Brett Holman; The Evolution of the Ministry of Information and Home Front propaganda, 1939–42, David Clampin; They also serve: British women and the Second World War, Juliette Pattinson; "Careless Talk": reading Britain's Home Front fiction, Karen Schaller
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UNE: University of New England · 28 February 2018 English
By the late 1930s it was widely expected, drawing on the experience of German air raids on Britain in the First World War, that if and when the next war …
UEA: University of East Anglia · 1 January 2018 English
When my students read the story “Careless Talk,” they often see the discussion of food as a sort of deceptively innocuous backdrop for the more serious matters in the story …
University of Kent · 1 January 2018 English
This essay gives you an introductory view of the topic of war and social change on the British Home Front by using the changing position of women as a case …
LJMU: Liverpool John Moores University · 7 December 2018 English
A good deal has been made of the fact that amongst the numerous volumes which are the official History of the Second World War, the Ministry of Information (MoI) is …