Wendy Ugolini is an award-winning historian of the Second World War specialising in ethnicities and identity formation. Educated at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, she is a Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Edinburgh. Her first book, Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'. Italian Scottish Experience in World War II was awarded the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Book Prize. Dr Ugolini's research addresses the relationship between war and identities within modern British society, focusing on dual identifications. She was co-founder of the Second World War Network (Scotland) funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

• Introduction PART ONE: INVENTING AND ENCOUNTERING 1: Elite Identities 2: Welshburbia: Welshness in the English suburbs 3: Narrating and encountering Wales PART TWO: REGIMENTING AND MOBILIZING 4: First World War identities 5: Second World War identities 6: Mourning and Memorializing PART THREE: CREATING AND FAKING 7: Imagining Wales from England 8: Constructing Wales as a site of solace 9: Welshness as Masquerade Conclusion

The book provides a wholly new perspective on the social, cultural, and military history of Britain at war. It shows English-Welsh duality to have been an important strand of pluralistic Britishness in wartime, and that this diasporic construction of Welshness held a wide urban appeal with significant implications for military enlistment, cultural production, and commemorative practices in England.

Wendy Ugolini is an award-winning historian of the Second World War specialising in ethnicities and identity formation. Educated at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, she is a Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Edinburgh. Her first book, Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'. Italian Scottish Experience in World War II was awarded the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Book Prize. Dr Ugolini's research addresses the relationship between war and identities within modern British society, focusing on dual identifications. She was co-founder of the Second World War Network (Scotland) funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

• Introduction PART ONE: INVENTING AND ENCOUNTERING 1: Elite Identities 2: Welshburbia: Welshness in the English suburbs 3: Narrating and encountering Wales PART TWO: REGIMENTING AND MOBILIZING 4: First World War identities 5: Second World War identities 6: Mourning and Memorializing PART THREE: CREATING AND FAKING 7: Imagining Wales from England 8: Constructing Wales as a site of solace 9: Welshness as Masquerade Conclusion

The book provides a wholly new perspective on the social, cultural, and military history of Britain at war. It shows English-Welsh duality to have been an important strand of pluralistic Britishness in wartime, and that this diasporic construction of Welshness held a wide urban appeal with significant implications for military enlistment, cultural production, and commemorative practices in England.

Wendy Ugolini is an award-winning historian of the Second World War specialising in ethnicities and identity formation. Educated at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, she is a Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Edinburgh. Her first book, Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'. Italian Scottish Experience in World War II was awarded the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Book Prize. Dr Ugolini's research addresses the relationship between war and identities within modern British society, focusing on dual identifications. She was co-founder of the Second World War Network (Scotland) funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

• Introduction PART ONE: INVENTING AND ENCOUNTERING 1: Elite Identities 2: Welshburbia: Welshness in the English suburbs 3: Narrating and encountering Wales PART TWO: REGIMENTING AND MOBILIZING 4: First World War identities 5: Second World War identities 6: Mourning and Memorializing PART THREE: CREATING AND FAKING 7: Imagining Wales from England 8: Constructing Wales as a site of solace 9: Welshness as Masquerade Conclusion

The book provides a wholly new perspective on the social, cultural, and military history of Britain at war. It shows English-Welsh duality to have been an important strand of pluralistic Britishness in wartime, and that this diasporic construction of Welshness held a wide urban appeal with significant implications for military enlistment, cultural production, and commemorative practices in England.