Scottish Society in the Second World War
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2254-0 (ISBN)
Surprisingly little is known about Scottish experiences of the Second World War. Scottish Society in the Second World War addresses this oversight by providing a pioneering account of society and culture in wartime Scotland. While significantly illuminating a pivotal episode in Scottish history, this book also charts the uncertainties that permeated Scottish society at that time: relating to nationhood, to cultural identity, to Scotland’s place within the Union, and towards the country’s future.
Using recently discovered archives, this text examines key aspects of wartime life, including work, leisure, morale, and religion. It also explores the underlying tension between conformity and resistance, and the ways that social fissures shaped Scottish responses to war. Further, in taking a national approach to the British home front, it draws out areas of cultural difference between Scotland and established scholarship on other nations and regions of Britain.
Dr Michelle Moffat is a historian of war and society, and a research associate at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her previous publications include ‘Scotland’s fighting fields’: the mobilisation of workers in rural Scotland during the Second World War, Rural History, 33:2 (2022): 231-249; and with Alison Loveridge, Rebecca Duell and Julie Abbari, ‘Night Landscapes: A Challenge to World Heritage Protocols’, Landscape Review, 15:1 (2014): 64-75. Michelle completed her doctoral studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand and her award-winning doctorate examined Scottish life and society during the Second World War. She is currently researching dissent and discontent in wartime Britain. This is her first monograph.
List of Figures List of Abbreviations GlossaryAcknowledgements
Introduction: A ‘Grand, Unified Collective’?
Prologue: Scotland on the Eve of War
1. ‘Here Come the Keelies’: The Government Evacuation Scheme in Scotland
2. ‘What that Boy Needed was a Real Good Thrashing’: Scotland’s Moral Crisis, 1940-1945
3. ‘A War of Their Own’: Discontent and Subversion on the Scottish Home Front
4. ‘We Here in Scotland Can Also Take It’: Morale in Scotland, 1939-1945
5. The Great Escape: Scottish Wartime Holidays
6. Leisure and Pleasure: Scottish Responses to War’s Disruption of Everyday Life
7. ‘Scotland’s Fighting Fields’: The Transformation of Rural Scotland
Epilogue: A Story Worth Telling?
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-2254-X / 139952254X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-2254-0 / 9781399522540 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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