British Cultural Memory and the Second World War

Lucy Noakes is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Brighton, UK.Juliette Pattinson is Reader in History, University of Kent, UK.

• Notes on ContributorsList of IllustrationsForeword: Memory and the Historians: Ordinary Life, Eventfulness, and the Instinctual Past - Geoff Eley (University of Michigan, USA)1. Introduction - ‘Keep calm and carry on’: The Cultural Memory of the Second World War in Britain - Lucy Noakes (Brighton University, UK) and Juliette Pattinson (University of Kent, UK)2. The Generation of Memory: Gender and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain - Penny Summerfield (University of Manchester, UK)3. ‘War on the web’: The BBC ‘People’s War’ Website and Memories of Fear in Wartime in 21st century Britain - Lucy Noakes4. The People’s War in Personal Testimony and Bronze: Sorority and the Memorial to the Women of World War II - Corinna M. Peniston-Bird (Lancaster University, UK)5. ‘When are you going back’: Memory, Ethnicity and the British Home Front - Wendy Ugolini (University of Edinburgh, UK)6. Remembering War, Forgetting Empire? Representations of the North African Campaign in 1950s British Cinema - Martin Francis (University of Cincinnati, USA)7. ‘A story that will thrill you and make you proud’: The Cultural Memory of Britain’s Secret War in Occupied France - Juliette Pattinson8. The ‘Missing Chapter’: Bomber Command Aircrew Memoirs in the 1990s and 2000s - Frances Houghton (University of Edinburgh, UK)9. Total War and Total Anniversary: The Material Culture of Second World War commemoration in Britain - Janet Watson (University of Connecticut, USA)10. Memory, Meaning and Multidirectionality: ‘Remembering’ Austerity Britain - Rebecca Bramall (Brighton University, UK)Select bibliographyIndex

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