Fighting for Britain?

Wendy Ugolini is a lecturer in British History at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in the role of war in identity formation and has published on ethnicity in Second World War Britain and diasporic military Scottishness. Her current research focuses on the interconnections between English and Welsh identities in the two world wars. Juliette Pattinson is a Reader in Modern History at the University of Kent. She specialises in the Second World War and has published on the French resistance, British clandestine warfare, female combatants and male reserved workers and has co-edited collections on the cultural memory of the war, male POWs and partisan and anti-partisan warfare.

• Contents: Wendy Ugolini/Juliette Pattinson: Negotiating identities in multinational Britain during the Second World War – Lucy Noakes: «Deep England»: Britain, the countryside and the English in the Second World War – Gary Sheffield: Englishness in the British army of the Second World War – Martin Johnes: Welshness, Welsh soldiers and the Second World War – Bernard Kelly: «Excellent Irishmen»: Irish volunteers and identities during the Second World War – Ian S. Wood: Northern Ireland’s War – Trevor Griffiths: Scottish cinema-goers at war: The popular reception of British and Scottish films during the Second World War – Gavin Bowd: «Fortify the Cheviots!»: The Nazis and the Scottish Nationalists – Jessica Thurlow: «Total War on Spiritual Issues»: English feminists, Christian national identity and gender equality in wartime Britain – Wendy Webster: Transnational communities of allies – Iain E. Johnston: Imperial settler-regions in the Second World War: The case of British air training in southern Africa – Stuart Allan: «Some idea of our country»: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in early wartime documentary film – Linsey Robb: «His Own Weapons to His Own Battlefront»: The civilian working man in British culture 1939-1945.