The People's Victory
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-83895-515-1 (ISBN)
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'The VE Day book' Amol Rajan, Today, Radio 4
IN 1937, Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson created the social survey organisation Mass Observation to capture the thoughts, feelings and minutiae of individuals across the British Isles. At its height Mass Observation had 1,000 concurrent writers - stretching from Penzance to Aberdeen and including miners, academics and housewives - and collected over 1 million individual diary entries between 1937 and 1960.
In The People's Victory, historian Lucy Noakes mines the Mass Observation archive to present a groundbreaking history of how Britons at home celebrated and experienced the end of World War II. Alongside street celebrations and tea parties, we find bonfires and bell ringing, water fights and wagon rides, solitary and shared walks - and copious amounts of alcohol. However, as Noakes also reveals, not everyone felt like celebrating that May: many were still waiting for news of family members who had vanished in the fog of war, whilst thousands of British soldiers were still interned in the Far East.
By centring the voices, feelings and fears of the public at the heart of the People's War, Noakes also traces the hopes and changing attitudes of a nation in flux, revealing how the camaraderie and selflessness of wartime led to the birth of the welfare state.
Lucy Noakes is the Rab Butler Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, a Trustee of the Mass Observation Archive and the current President of the Royal Historical Society. She is a historian of twentieth-century Britain and an expert on the social and cultural history of the Second World War. Her publications include three single authored books - War and the British: National Identity and the Second World War, Women and the British Army 1907-1948 and Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain - and three edited collections.
Map: Geographical Distribution of Wartime Mass Observation Diarists Prologue: 'An Anthropology of Our Own People' Chapter One: The Second World War in British Myth and Memory - 'I Had a Pretty Quiet War Really' Chapter Two: Mass Observation and the Second World War - 'They Speak for Themselves' Chapter Three: Mass Observers at War - 'War Begins at Home' Chapter Four: 1-6 May 1945 - 'A Week of Confusion and Fluctuating Emotions' Prologue - 7 May 1945: The Funeral of Germany Chapter Five: Daytime, Monday 7 May - 'The Most Unsettling Day of All' Chapter Six: Evening, Monday 7 May - 'I Still Rejoiced with All My Heart' Prologue - 8 May 1945: An End and a Beginning Chapter Seven: Daytime, Tuesday 8 May - 'So, This Is V Day' Chapter Eight: Evening, Tuesday 8 May - 'This Is Your Victory' Afterword: 'It Is All Very Difficult to Imagine We Have Peace'
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83895-515-1 / 1838955151 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83895-515-1 / 9781838955151 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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