The British Labour Party’s response to the Israel/Arab conflict is traced in this chapter from 1947 until the early 1970s through the reflections of some of its leading figures and, in particular, of Richard Crossman. Crossman had an intense and lengthy involvement with the Israel/Palestine issue. He was a member of the 1947 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that made a last ditch effort to try to resolve the conflict in Palestine. For Crossman as for many in the Labour Party, the establishment of Israel represented the promise of a social democratic development in the Middle East, that many on the left-wing of the labour movement believed would constitute a ‘third way’, transcending the rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union. His strong attachment to Israel led him to subscribe to many of the myths of Labour Zionism though towards the end of his life he expressed some criticism of Israeli policies in the West Bank and Gaza.

Chapter Six extends these reflections on selfhood to narrativity, a crucial element of the construction of self. This chapter examines how narrativity was used, interpreted and experienced in the daily lives of the older people with whom this research was conducted. This chapter furthers the analysis of Chapter Four by demonstrating the distinctiveness of narrative styles at times employed by older people in comparison with younger adults. How such narrative activity and style are interpreted and responded to by their interlocutors forms a critical aspect of how oldness comes to be constructed and projected onto the older narrator, endangering the very work of building the self that narration seeks to accomplish.

In historical and contemporary terms, Ireland and Scotland have extensive pedigrees in relation to migration. Compared with the nineteenth century, the historiography of twentieth-century migration from Ireland and Scotland is somewhat thin, a surprising feature given the numbers involved. Assessment of agent activity is a key element in the historiography of Scottish migration, but is less extensively covered for the Irish moving abroad. Within a Scottish context, the focus has generally been on Highland Gaelic migrants. The schemes for New Zealand and Australia were similar but Australia's differed in that Britain contributed equally to the costs incurred and married migrants could apply. Sporadic nomination, together with schemes such as the Empire Settlement Act, enabled Scottish and Irish migrants from the north to avail themselves of subsidised fares. By 1952, the Irish flow significantly altered towards settlement in Britain, with four-fifths of migrants from independent Ireland moving there.

Trauma-tragedy can be considered an intensification of the trans-historical trope of trauma, a trope which is particularly identifiable in our structure of feeling. In trauma-tragedy there is a desire to evoke a sense of being there in an attempt to generate an effect of 'real' presence, or presence in 'reality'. The perpetually changing nature of tragedy which Raymond Williams identifies is braided to his central critical framework, that of the 'structure of feeling'. This term is an analytical 'tool' which he developed and regularly modified throughout his career. Despite the criticisms which have been levelled at the notion of structure of feeling, it provides a useful means of investigating theatre and performance, especially in light of Williams' own work in Modern Tragedy. Williams proposes private-tragedy, which ends with the individual 'bare and unaccommodated' and battered by 'the storm he has himself raised'.

Siblings were among the 'host of intermediaries' between couples, kin, and neighbours who negotiated marriage in early modern England. Sibling economics encompassed household management via physical care, financial transactions, and the more intangible exchange of social credit. From the cradle to the grave, siblings provided physical care, especially for children, the ill, and the dying. In addition to involving physical care, sibling economics were based on a world of reciprocal social and financial labour. Though Peter Laslett once described co-resident siblings as a 'no family' category of household, scholarship has recognized this connection between families and households and hinted at the importance of siblings within them. Georgian families valorized households as the markers of social and economic adulthood. Both married and unmarried siblings shared physical households throughout adulthood and old age.

This introduction sets out the conceptual, historical and literary-critical foundations on which this book is built. It begins by exploring some of the conceptual approaches to the study of collective memory. It focuses in particular on cultural memory and the influential role of fictional texts. It then examines the fraught historical legacies of the Second World War and evaluates Henry Rousso's pioneering model of the evolutions in French memories of the Second World War, the ‘Vichy syndrome’. Lastly, the introduction examines critical approaches to the study of popular culture. It investigates the narrative template of crime fiction and identifies the specific contribution crime fiction can make to our understanding of the wartime past.

This chapter analyses representations of wartime persecution and extermination in the work of three French crime writers from the 1980s and 1990s. It begins by setting out the context for the reappraisal of Jewish memories of the Second World War in France during these years, above all the trials for crimes against humanity which reignited public debate on the extent of French state collusion in the Holocaust. It then discusses novels by Gérard Delteil, Thierry Jonquet and Konop. The chapter investigates how each crime novelist grapples with the moral dilemma of representing the concentration camps in fiction just as the survivor generation begins to disappear.