Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-78656-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Reihe: Material Culture and Modern Conflict

How do children cope when their world is transformed by war? This book draws on memory narratives to construct an historical anthropology of childhood in Second World Britain, focusing on objects and spaces such as gas masks, air raid shelters and bombed-out buildings. In their struggles to cope with the fears and upheavals of wartime, with families divided and familiar landscapes lost or transformed, children reimagined and reshaped these material traces of conflict into toys, treasures and playgrounds. This study of the material worlds of wartime childhood offers a unique viewpoint into an extraordinary period in history with powerful resonances across global conflicts into the present day.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moshenska, Gabriel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Preface and Acknowledgements



Introduction

Chapter 1: Gas masks

Chapter 2: Collecting shrapnel

Chapter 3: Air Raid Shelters

Chapter 4: Bombsites

Chapter 5: Aircraft down to earth

Conclusion

Bibliography

List of BBC WW2 People’s War sources

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriel Moshenska is Associate Professor in Public Archaeology at University College London, UK.