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Sport and the Home Front - Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45 (Paperback)
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Sport and the Home Front - Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original
ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the
Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment
of sport in government policy, media representations and the
everyday lives of wartime citizens. Acknowledged as a core
component of British culture, sport was also frequently criticised,
marginalised and downplayed, existing in a constant state of
tension between notions of normality and exceptionality, routine
and disruption, the everyday and the extraordinary. The author
argues that sport played an important, yet hitherto neglected, role
in maintaining the morale of the British people and providing a
reassuring sense of familiarity at a time of mass anxiety and
threat. Through the conflict, sport became increasingly regarded as
characteristic of Britishness; a symbol of the 'ordinary' everyday
lives in defence of which the war was being fought. Utilised to
support the welfare of war workers, the entertainment of service
personnel at home and abroad and the character formation of
schoolchildren and young citizens, sport permeated wartime culture,
contributing to new ways in which the British imagined the past,
present and future. Using a wide range of personal and public
records - from diary writing and club minute books to government
archives - this book breaks new ground in both the history of the
British home front and the history of sport.
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