Histories, memories and representations of being young in the First World War. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maggie Andrews, N.C. Fleming, Marcus Morris.
• Editors: Andrews, Maggie; Fleming, N. C (Neil C.); (Lecturer in history), Morris, Marcus
• Contents: Introduction- Maggie Andrews, N.C. Fleming, Marcus Morris Part I: Childhood in War 1. 'Birmingham clapped her hands with the rest of the world, welcoming the signs of peace': Working-Class Urban childhoods in Birmingham, London, and Greater Manchester during the First World War- Rebecca Ball2. The radical responses made by women in Manchester, during the First World War, to the 'special problems of child life accentuated by the war'- Alison Ronan 3. Childhood Interrupted: Work and Schooling in Rural Worcestershire- Maggie Andrews, Anna Muggeridge, Hayley Carter and Lisa Cox-Davies Part II: Youth in War 4. Fears of the dark: young people and the cinema during World War One- Melanie Tebbutt5. The Navy League, the Rising Generation and the First World War- N.C. Fleming6. 'Girls Who Would Fight': Young Women and the Call to Arms during the First World War- Marcus Morris7. 'It Didn't Worry Me a Bit': Coming of Age in London in the First World War- Ruth Percy8. 'Students, Service and Sacrifice: Wartime Education, Adolescent Experiences and Understandings of the First World War'- Keith Vernon and Oliver Wilkinson Part III: Memories and Representations 9. Women at the Front and class enemies reconciled: Anachronism in First World War children's novels in the last four decades- Jane Rosen10. Watching and Remembering the Great War: The First World War, Young People, and Television as Sight of Memory, 1968-2014- Sam Edwards11. Problematizing Palatable Pasts: Histories and Children in Britain's First World War Commemoration- Maggie Andrews.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 940.3161; World War, 1914-1918 -- Children -- Great Britain; World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Collective memory -- Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030499396
• Related ISBNs: 9783030499389
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