The Home Front in Britain

Introduction; Maggie Andrews and Janis Lomas 1. The Idea and Ideal of Domesticity and Home in WW1; Maggie Andrews 2. A Personal Account of The Home Front; Angela Clare Smith 3. Soldiering on: War Widows in WW1 Britain; Janis Lomas 4. Mortality or Morality? Keeping Workers Safe in World War One; Anne Spurgeon 5. A Heroine at Home: The Housewife on the WW1 Home Front; Karen Hunt 6. Female Agricultural Workers in Wales in WW1; Thomas George 7. Ellen Wilkinson and Home Security; Paula Bartley 8. Guernsey Mothers and Children: Forgotten Evacuees; Gillian Mawson 9. The Home Front as a 'Moment' for Animals and Humans: Exploring the Animal - Human Relationship in Contemporary Diaries and Letters; Hilda Kean 10. The Weak and the Wicked: Non-Conscripted Masculinities in 1940s British Cinema; Paul Elliott 11. Rationing in WW2: Creativity and Buying to Last; Elspeth King and Maggie Andrews 12. The 'Idle Women': Breaking Gender Stereotypes on Britain's Inland Waterways During the Second World War; Barbara Hately-Broad and Bob Moore 13. 'Doing Your Bit': Women and the National Savings Movement in the Second World War; Rosalind Watkiss Singleton 14. Contemporary Images and Ideas of the Home Front; Maggie Andrews