Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- An ‘English War’, Wartime Culture and ‘Millions Like Us’
- British Cinema and ‘The People's War’
- The People's Radio: The BBC and its Audience, 1939–1945
- Was it the Mirror Wot Won it? The Development of the Tabloid Press During the Second World War
- A More Even Playing Field? Sport During and After the War
- A Time for Hard Writers: The Impact of War on Women Writers
- Safe and Sound: New Music in Wartime Britain
- More Than ‘Music-While-You-Eat’? Factory and Hostel Concerts, ‘Good Culture’ and the Workers
- ‘When Work Is Over’: Labour, Leisure and Culture in Wartime Britain
- 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
- ‘You and I – All of Us Ordinary People’: Renegotiating ‘Britishness’ in Wartime
- Postscript: A War Imagined
- Index
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Notes on Contributors
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- An ‘English War’, Wartime Culture and ‘Millions Like Us’
- British Cinema and ‘The People's War’
- The People's Radio: The BBC and its Audience, 1939–1945
- Was it the Mirror Wot Won it? The Development of the Tabloid Press During the Second World War
- A More Even Playing Field? Sport During and After the War
- A Time for Hard Writers: The Impact of War on Women Writers
- Safe and Sound: New Music in Wartime Britain
- More Than ‘Music-While-You-Eat’? Factory and Hostel Concerts, ‘Good Culture’ and the Workers
- ‘When Work Is Over’: Labour, Leisure and Culture in Wartime Britain
- 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
- ‘You and I – All of Us Ordinary People’: Renegotiating ‘Britishness’ in Wartime
- Postscript: A War Imagined
- Index
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- Millions Like Us?British Culture in the Second World War, pp. viii - ixPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999