Millions Like Us?: British Culture in the Second World War

This collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. Its starting point is how this war was presented to, and understood by, contemporaries and how they differentiated it from earlier conflicts. Although this was particularly noticeable in the construction of ideas of inclusiveness and commonality where ‘the people’ pulled together to secure victory and a socially equitable peace, the essays also seek to explore the diversity of institutional and personal experiences. Essays look at major national institutions and industries such as the recently formed BBC, the culturally diverse and rapidly expanding commercial press, and the British film industry. The collection explores the role of the individual agent, with studies on established writers and composers, and how each related to the collective rationales of wartime.

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British Culture in the Second World War

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures and Tables
pp vii-vii

Notes on Contributors
pp viii-ix

Acknowledgements
pp x-x

An ‘English War’, Wartime Culture and ‘Millions Like Us’
pp 1-32

British Cinema and ‘The People's War’
pp 33-61

The People's Radio: The BBC and its Audience, 1939–1945
pp 62-92

Was it the Mirror Wot Won it? The Development of the Tabloid Press During the Second World War
pp 93-124

A More Even Playing Field? Sport During and After the War
pp 125-155

A Time for Hard Writers: The Impact of War on Women Writers
pp 156-178

Safe and Sound: New Music in Wartime Britain
pp 179-208

More Than ‘Music-While-You-Eat’? Factory and Hostel Concerts, ‘Good Culture’ and the Workers
pp 209-235

‘When Work Is Over’: Labour, Leisure and Culture in Wartime Britain
pp 236-260

Not Just a Case of Baths, Canteens and Rehabilitation Centres: The Second World War and the Recreational Provision of the Miners’ Welfare Commission in Coalmining Communities
pp 261-294

‘You and I – All of Us Ordinary People’: Renegotiating ‘Britishness’ in Wartime
pp 295-322

Postscript: A War Imagined
pp 323-335

Index
pp 336-342

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