British Cultural Memory and the Second World War

Lucy Noakes is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Brighton, UK.Juliette Pattinson is Reader in History, University of Kent, UK.

Scholars of cultural memory may productively encounter unfamiliar approaches amongst the breadth employed in this much-needed collection of thought-provoking scholarship. It is essential reading for historians of the cultural memory of the Second World War, and of the period itself. Its format renders this high-quality scholarship particularly accessible, making this an extremely useful text for introducing students to the topic, as well as developing and broadening our understanding of the memory of the Second World War -- Joel Morley, Queen Mary University of London, UK Twentieth Century British History

• Notes on ContributorsList of IllustrationsForeword: Memory and the Historians: Ordinary Life, Eventfulness, and the Instinctual Past - Geoff Eley (University of Michigan, USA)1. Introduction - 'Keep calm and carry on': The Cultural Memory of the Second World War in Britain - Lucy Noakes (Brighton University, UK) and Juliette Pattinson (University of Kent, UK)2. The Generation of Memory: Gender and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain - Penny Summerfield (University of Manchester, UK)3. 'War on the web': The BBC 'People's War' Website and Memories of Fear in Wartime in 21st century Britain - Lucy Noakes4. The People's War in Personal Testimony and Bronze: Sorority and the Memorial to the Women of World War II - Corinna M. Peniston-Bird (Lancaster University, UK)5. 'When are you going back': Memory, Ethnicity and the British Home Front - Wendy Ugolini (University of Edinburgh, UK)6. Remembering War, Forgetting Empire? Representations of the North African Campaign in 1950s British Cinema - Martin Francis (University of Cincinnati, USA)7. 'A story that will thrill you and make you proud': The Cultural Memory of Britain's Secret War in Occupied France - Juliette Pattinson8. The 'Missing Chapter': Bomber Command Aircrew Memoirs in the 1990s and 2000s - Frances Houghton (University of Edinburgh, UK)9. Total War and Total Anniversary: The Material Culture of Second World War commemoration in Britain - Janet Watson (University of Connecticut, USA)10. Memory, Meaning and Multidirectionality: 'Remembering' Austerity Britain - Rebecca Bramall (Brighton University, UK)Select bibliographyIndex