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Zusatztext This is a beautifully written and often moving book; a contribution to both the historiography of the war years and a thoughtful meditation on the construction of selfhood. Informationen zum Autor James Hinton, Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick, has published widely on the social history of twentieth-century Britain. His early work in labour history included The First Shop Stewards' Movement (1973) and Labour and Socialism (1983). A spell of intense political activism in the 1980s anti-nuclear movement was reflected in Protests and Visions. Peace Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain (1989). More recently he has published monographs on two contrasting groups of active citizens during the second world war: Shop Floor Citizens (1994), and Women and Social Leadership (2002). Following his work on the Mass Observation diaries, he is now engaged on a full-scale history of Mass Observation. Klappentext A fascinating re-evaluation of the social history of the second world war, looking at the diaries kept by nine 'ordinary' people in wartime Britain for the Mass Observation social research organization. Zusammenfassung A fascinating re-evaluation of the social history of the second world war, looking at the diaries kept by nine 'ordinary' people in wartime Britain for the Mass Observation social research organization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Introduction 2: Nella Last: nation before husband 3: Gertrude Glover: moral guardian 4: Mary Clayton: bombed out and keeping going 5: Eleanor Humphries: serving genius 6: Lillian Rogers: Birmingham flaneuse 7: Ernest van Someren: the good life 8: Denis Argent: between the acts 9: The Waltons: a democratic marriage 10: Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index
