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- The British Home Front and the First World War
- The British Home Front and the First World War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables and Charts
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 The United Kingdom in 1914
- Part I Government
- Part II Resources
- Part III People
- Part IV Production
- Part V Social Impacts
- 24 Press and Propaganda
- 25 Pacifism
- 26 Homes and Families in Wartime
- 27 Crime and Policing
- 28 Children
- 29 The ‘Home Front’ as War Front
- Conclusion
- Index
26 - Homes and Families in Wartime
from Part V - Social Impacts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2023
- The British Home Front and the First World War
- The British Home Front and the First World War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables and Charts
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 The United Kingdom in 1914
- Part I Government
- Part II Resources
- Part III People
- Part IV Production
- Part V Social Impacts
- 24 Press and Propaganda
- 25 Pacifism
- 26 Homes and Families in Wartime
- 27 Crime and Policing
- 28 Children
- 29 The ‘Home Front’ as War Front
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
At the outbreak of the First World War, families across Britain, were infinitely varied. An assortment of combinations of individuals resided together in a multitude of different types of homes, which in their own diverse ways acted as the focus of families’ economic activities and as spaces of emotional belonging and comfort. Homes could contain several generations, a widow supported by her sons, a co-habiting couple, perhaps with previous partners they could not afford to divorce,1 combinations of grown-up siblings, relatives, lodgers and domestic servants living together. Families and homes were often finely balanced economic units, relying upon a range of methods of production and consumption to make ends meet. Class, economic circumstances and the particularity of the geographical locale in which a family resided all shaped the day-to-day practices of domestic life, and the contributions that different members needed to make to the economic survival of the home.
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- The British Home Front and the First World War , pp. 525 - 542Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023