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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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