British Cultural Memory and the Second World War

Lucy Noakes is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Brighton, UK.Juliette Pattinson is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

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• Introduction: the cultural memory of the Second World War, Lucy Noakes and Juliette Pattinson \ Part One: Personal Narratives of the Second World War \ Section Introduction, Juliette Pattinson \ 1. ‘The long ago war looms large in my life': men, women and the cultural memory of the Second World War, a Mass-Observation study, Penny Summerfield \ 2. ‘War on the Web': The BBC ‘People's War' Website and Memories of the Second World War in 21st century Britain, Lucy Noakes \ 4. Race and Ethnicity in World War Two Britain, Wendy Ugolini \ 5. A Class Apart: Reconstructing Class and Gender in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, Juliette Pattinson \ 6. ‘An Officer and a Gentleman': Remembering Sexual Culture in the British Army, 1939-1945', Emma Reilly \ Part Two: Representing the War \ Section Introduction, Lucy Noakes \ 7. Remembering War, Forgetting Empire: Cinematic Representations of the North African Campaign in the Era of Decolonization, Martin Francis \ 8. The People's War in Personal Testimony and Bronze: Sorority in War and Peace, Corinna Peniston-Bird \ 9. Writing the ‘Missing Chapter': Post-War Memoirs of Bomber Command Aircrew, Frances Houghton \ 10. Total War and ‘Total Anniversary': Popular Culture and World War II Commemoration, Janet K. Watson \ 11. Remembering the home front in the new age of austerity, Rebecca Bramall