Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 A Personal Account of the Home Front

Chapter 4 Soldiering On: War Widows in First World War Britain

Chapter 5 Mortality or Morality? Keeping Workers Safe in the First World War

Chapter 6 A Heroine at Home: The Housewife on the First World War Home Front

Chapter 7 Female Agricultural Workers in Wales in the First World War

Chapter 8 Ellen Wilkinson and Home Security 1940–1945

Chapter 9 Guernsey Mothers and Children: Forgotten Evacuees

Chapter 10 The Home Front as a ‘Moment’ for Animals and Humans: Exploring the Animal-Human Relationship in Contemporary Diaries and Letters

Chapter 11 The Weak and the Wicked: Non-Conscripted Masculinities in 1940s British Cinema

Chapter 12 Second World War Rationing: Creativity and Buying to Last

Chapter 13 Idle Women: Challenging Gender Stereotypes on Britain’s Inland Waterways During the Second World War

Chapter 14 ‘Doing Your Bit’: Women and the National Savings Movement in the Second World War

Chapter 15 Contemporary Images and Ideas of the Home Front