Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime – not just to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones, but to the state, tasked with managing the deaths of its citizens in conflict. -- .
Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime – not just to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones, but to the state, tasked with managing the deaths of its citizens in conflict. -- .
This text looks at public and private ideas of national identity in times of war, how they were arrived at and the extent to which they were shaped by gender.
A brand-new social history of how Britons felt about and celebrated VE Day, utilising the rich Mass Observation archives - published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of VE Day in 2025.
An exacting study of the activities that marked the First World War Centenary within the UK from 2014 to 2018 that considers how this period shaped national identity and the increasingly collaborative field of public history.
A brand-new social history of how Britons felt about and celebrated VE Day, utilising the rich Mass Observation archives - published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of VE Day in 2025.