Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time

BL Reveals for the first time the real political importance of the Home Guard BL Based on original research, particularly among recently available War Office fi

The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the meaning and image

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 explor

Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.