Mixing It - Diversity in World War Two Britain

During World War Two, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war. Mixing It tells the extraordinary tales of their contributions to the British war effort, and uncovers the forgotten history of the role WWII played in the making of multiethnic Britain.

List of contents

• Introduction: The 'Big Proposition'


• 1: 1940


• 2: Enemies and Neutrals


• 3: The Empire Comes to Britain


• 4: Allies


• 5: Language, Speech, and Sound


• 6: Sexual Patriotism


• 7: Aftermath


• Bibliography

About the author

Wendy Webster is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Huddersfield and has published widely on twentieth-century history. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Australian National University and the University of Tasmania. Her previous books include Not A Man to Match Her: The Marketing of a Prime Minister (1990), Imagining Home (1998), and the prize-winning Englishness and Empire (2005). Mixing It is part of a wider project involving a display at Imperial War Museum North.

Summary

During World War Two, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war. Mixing It tells the extraordinary tales of their contributions to the British war effort, and uncovers the forgotten history of the role WWII played in the making of multiethnic Britain.

Additional text

Mixing It is both a first class scholarly history and a parable for our own day. I doubt if anyone who reads the book will ever picture the home front in quite the same way again

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Webster, Wendy (Professor of History Webster
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780192895219
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289521-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Migration, immigration & emigration, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)