'Millions like us'? : British culture in the Second World War / edited by Nick Hayes and Jeff Hill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hayes, Nick.

Hill, Jeff, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Great Britain.

World War, 1939-1945.

Popular culture--Great Britain.

Popular culture.

World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. Its starting point is how this war was presented to, and understood by, contemporaries and how they differentiated it from earlier conflicts. Although this was particularly noticeable in the construction of ideas of inclusiveness and commonality where ‘the people’ pulled together to secure victory and a socially equitable peace, the essays also seek to explore the diversity of institutional and personal experiences. Essays look at major national institutions and industries such as the recently formed BBC, the culturally diverse and rapidly expanding commercial press, and the British film industry. The collection explores the role of the individual agent, with studies on established writers and composers, and how each related to the collective rationales of wartime.

Contents:

An 'English war': wartime culture and 'Millions like us" / Nick Hayes

British cinema and 'the people's war' / James Chapman

The people's radio : the BBC and its audience, 1939-1945 / Siân Nicholas

Was it the Mirror wot won it? The development of the tabloid press during the Second World War / Michael Bromley

A more even playing field? Sport during and after the war / Norman Baker

A time for hard writers : the impact of war on women writers / Joanna Alberti

Safe and sound : new music in wartime Britain / Robert Mackay

More than 'music-while-you-eat'? Factory and hostel concerts, 'good culture' and the workers / Nick Hayes

'When work is over' : labour, leisure and culture in wartime Britain / Jeff Hill

Not just a case of baths, canteens and rehabilitation centres : the Second World War and the recreational provision of the Miners' Welfare Commission in coalmining communities / Colin Griffin

'You and I, all of us ordinary people' : renegotiating 'Britishness' in wartime / John Baxendale

Postscript : a war imagined / Jeff Hill.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78138-769-9

1-84631-248-5

OCLC:

476209107