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A vital work for its exploration of the way the very idea of home
became white in Britain in the postwar period Ahead of its time
when first published and reviewed in the Guardian Highly relevant
in light of the Windrush scandal and recent debates surrounding
race and colonialism in Britain This Routledge Classics edition
includes a new preface by the author
Gendering Migration demonstrates the significance of studying
migration through the lens of gender and ethnicity and the
contribution this perspective makes to migration histories. Through
a consideration of the impact of migration on men and masculine
identities as well as women and feminine identities, it extends our
understanding of questions of gender and migration, focusing on the
history of migration to Britain after the Second World War. The
volume draws on oral narratives as well as documentary and archival
research to demonstrate the important role played by gender and
ethnicity, both in ideas and images of migrants and in migrants'
own experiences. The contributors consider a range of migrant and
refugee groups who came to Britain in the twentieth century:
Caribbean, East-African Asian, German, Greek, Irish, Kurdish,
Pakistani, Polish and Spanish. The fresh interpretations offered
here make this an important new book for scholars and students of
migration, ethnicity, gender and modern British history.
Gendering Migration demonstrates the significance of studying
migration through the lens of gender and ethnicity and the
contribution this perspective makes to migration histories. Through
a consideration of the impact of migration on men and masculine
identities as well as women and feminine identities, it extends our
understanding of questions of gender and migration, focusing on the
history of migration to Britain after the Second World War. The
volume draws on oral narratives as well as documentary and archival
research to demonstrate the important role played by gender and
ethnicity, both in ideas and images of migrants and in migrants'
own experiences. The contributors consider a range of migrant and
refugee groups who came to Britain in the twentieth century:
Caribbean, East-African Asian, German, Greek, Irish, Kurdish,
Pakistani, Polish and Spanish. The fresh interpretations offered
here make this an important new book for scholars and students of
migration, ethnicity, gender and modern British history.
Imagining Home offers a unique examination of ideas and images of
home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of
imperial power. In exploring the relationship between gender,
'race' and national identity, it higlights the continuing
importance of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of
decolonization. Analyzing the significance of colonialism and
racism in shaping ideas of motherhood, employment and domestictiy,
it traces the process by which Englishness was increasingly
associated with domestic order, and the home and family constructed
as white.
Drawing extensively on oral history and life-writing, Imagining
Home examines the multiple meanings of home to women in narratives
of beloning and unbelonging. Its focus on the complex
interrelationships of white and black women's lives and identities
offers a new perspective on this period.
Imagining Home offers a unique examination of ideas and images of
home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of
imperial power. In exploring the relationship between gender,
'race' and national identity, it higlights the continuing
importance of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of
decolonization. Analyzing the significance of colonialism and
racism in shaping ideas of motherhood, employment and domestictiy,
it traces the process by which Englishness was increasingly
associated with domestic order, and the home and family constructed
as white.
Drawing extensively on oral history and life-writing, Imagining
Home examines the multiple meanings of home to women in narratives
of beloning and unbelonging. Its focus on the complex
interrelationships of white and black women's lives and identities
offers a new perspective on this period.
Did loss of imperial power and the end of empire have any
significant impact on British culture and identity after 1945?
Within a burgeoning literature on national identity and what it
means to be British this is a question that has received
surprisingly little attention. Englishness and Empire makes an
important and original contribution to recent debates about the
domestic consequences of the end of empire. mainstream media
archive - newspapers, newsreels, radio, film, and television. The
contours of the study generally follow stories told through
prolific filmic and television imagery: the Second World War, the
Coronation and Everest, colonial wars of the 1950s, and Winston
Churchill's funeral. The book analyses three main narratives that
conflicted and collided in the period - a Commonwealth that
promised to maintain immigration that showed a 'little England'
threatened by empire and its legacies; and a story of national
greatness, celebrating the martial masculinity of British officers
and leaders, through which imperial identity leaked into explores
the significance of America to post-imperial Britain. places,
imperial identity and loss of imperial power resonated in popular
narratives of nataion. As the first monograph to investigate the
significance of empire and its legacies in shaping national
identity after 1945, this is an important study for all scholars
interested in questions of national identity and their
intersections with gender, race, empire, immigration, and
decolonization.
A vital work for its exploration of the way the very idea of home
became white in Britain in the postwar period Ahead of its time
when first published and reviewed in the Guardian Highly relevant
in light of the Windrush scandal and recent debates surrounding
race and colonialism in Britain This Routledge Classics edition
includes a new preface by the author
Did loss of imperial power and the end of empire have any
significant impact on British culture and identity after 1945?
Within a burgeoning literature on national identity and what it
means to be British this is a question that has received
surprisingly little attention. Englishness and Empire makes an
important and original contribution to recent debates about the
domestic consequences of the end of empire. Wendy Webster explores
popular narratives of nation in the mainstream media archive -
newspapers, newsreels, radio, film, and television. The contours of
the study generally follow stories told through prolific filmic and
television imagery: the Second World War, the Coronation and
Everest, colonial wars of the 1950s, and Winston Churchill's
funeral. The book analyses three main narratives that conflicted
and collided in the period - a Commonwealth that promised to
maintain Britishness as a global identity; siege narratives of
colonial wars and immigration that showed a 'little England'
threatened by empire and its legacies; and a story of national
greatness, celebrating the martial masculinity of British officers
and leaders, through which imperial identity leaked into narratives
of the Second World War developed after 1945. The book also
explores the significance of America to post-imperial Britain.
Englishness and Empire considers how far, and in what contexts and
unexpected places, imperial identity and loss of imperial power
resonated in popular narratives of nataion. As the first monograph
to investigate the significance of empire and its legacies in
shaping national identity after 1945, this is an important study
for all scholars interested in questions of national identity and
their intersections with gender, race, empire, immigration, and
decolonization.
During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all
over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles,
and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British
Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became
more diverse than it had ever been before. Through diaries,
letters, and interviews, Mixing It tells of ordinary lives pushed
to extraordinary lengths. Among the stories featured are those of
Zbigniew Siemaszko - deported by the Soviet Union, fleeing
Kazakhstan on a horse-drawn sleigh, and eventually joining the
Polish army in Scotland via Iran, Iraq, and South Africa - and
'Johnny' Pohe - the first Maori pilot to serve in the RAF, who was
captured, and eventually murdered by the Gestapo for his part in
the 'Great Escape'. This is the first book to look at the big
picture of large-scale movements to Britain and the rich variety of
relations between different groups. When the war ended, awareness
of the diversity of Britain's wartime population was lost and has
played little part in public memories of the war. Mixing It
recovers this forgotten history. It illuminates the place of the
Second World War in the making of multinational, multiethnic
Britain and resonates with current debates on immigration.
During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all
over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles,
and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British
Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became
more diverse than it had ever been before. Through diaries,
letters, and interviews, Mixing It tells of ordinary lives pushed
to extraordinary lengths. Among the stories featured are those of
Zbigniew Siemaszko - deported by the Soviet Union, fleeing
Kazakhstan on a horse-drawn sleigh, and eventually joining the
Polish army in Scotland via Iran, Iraq, and South Africa - and
'Johnny' Pohe - the first Maori pilot to serve in the RAF, who was
captured, and eventually murdered by the Gestapo for his part in
the 'Great Escape'. This is the first book to look at the big
picture of large-scale movements to Britain and the rich variety of
relations between different groups. When the war ended, awareness
of the diversity of Britain's wartime population was lost and has
played little part in public memories of the war. Mixing It
recovers this forgotten history. It illuminates the place of the
Second World War in the making of multinational, multiethnic
Britain and resonates with current debates on immigration.
Mr Cartermann's garden isn't just like any garden. It's a garden to
stay out of trouble and to get into contact with fairies. But not
every fairy is good and peace loving. Evil fairies are unleashing
situations, animals and characters from fiction all over Great
Britain, leaving the books with blank pages. Ron, trying to
overcome his low self-esteem and Amelia, growing up, out and under
the tight regime of her father, set about trying to restore order.
This proves to be difficult when heavy snowstorms burst out over
the country and a Hound, looking very much like an ugly terrifying
dinosaur, is snapping at your heels. When Amelia finds Mr
Cartermann's spell book "Magicus Perfecticum" things are changing
drastically. An adventurous and magical book for young and old.
Visit also www.magicusperfecticum.webs.com and have fun!
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