Women and Evacuation in the Second World War

Women and Evacuation in the Second World War
Author: Maggie Andrews
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1441140689


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Introduction ; 1. Myths, Memories and Memorials of Evacuation ; 2. Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood 1900-1939 ; 3. Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of Women: A Domestic Response to a National Problem ; 4. The Challenges of Enforced Intimacy: Looking after Evacuees ; 5. Mothers Encouraged to Wave Goodbye ; 6. Women's Organisations and Evacuation ; 7. Women Were Paid to Care: Teachers, Social Workers and Psychologists ; 8. Afterword: The Post-war Idealisation of the Family in the Wake Evacuation.


Women and Evacuation in the Second World War
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Maggie Andrews
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-08 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Introduction ; 1. Myths, Memories and Memorials of Evacuation ; 2. Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood 1900-1939 ; 3. Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of
Women's Experiences of the Second World War
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Mark J. Crowley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.
Guernsey Evacuees
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Gillian Mawson
Categories: World War, 1939-1945
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'. The Channel Islands were
Bovril,Whisky and Gravediggers
Language: en
Pages: 111
Authors: Maggie Andrews
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09 - Publisher:

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Spanish Flu' killed more than 50million people and afffected millions more across the globe between 1918 and 1920. Soldiers, POWs and workers in war-industries
Britain's Wartime Evacuees
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Gillian Mawson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-30 - Publisher: Casemate Publishers

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With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mostly childr