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

This collection of fourteen academically rigorous and accessible chapters explores the British home front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WWI. The wide range of case studies include war widow allowances, Landgirls, the role of factory inspectors in WWI 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 conceptualizations of war and conflict.