'Millions like us'? : British culture in the Second World War / edited by Nick Hayes and Jeff Hill.

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Other Authors: Hayes, Nick, Hill, Jeff, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • An 'English war': wartime culture and 'Millions like us" / Nick Hayes
  • British cinema and 'the people's war' / James Chapman
  • The people's radio : the BBC and its audience, 1939-1945 / Siân Nicholas
  • Was it the Mirror wot won it? The development of the tabloid press during the Second World War / Michael Bromley
  • A more even playing field? Sport during and after the war / Norman Baker
  • A time for hard writers : the impact of war on women writers / Joanna Alberti
  • Safe and sound : new music in wartime Britain / Robert Mackay
  • More than 'music-while-you-eat'? Factory and hostel concerts, 'good culture' and the workers / Nick Hayes
  • 'When work is over' : labour, leisure and culture in wartime Britain / Jeff Hill
  • 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 / Colin Griffin
  • 'You and I, all of us ordinary people' : renegotiating 'Britishness' in wartime / John Baxendale
  • Postscript : a war imagined / Jeff Hill.