Histories, Memories and Representations of being Young in the First World War

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Birmingham clapped her hands with the rest of the world, welcoming the signs of peace’: Working-Class Urban Childhoods in Birmingham, London and Greater Manchester During the First World War

Chapter 3 The Radical Responses Made by Women in Manchester, During the First World War, to the ‘special problems of child life accentuated by the war’

Chapter 4 Childhood Interrupted: Work and Schooling in Rural Worcestershire

Chapter 5 Fears of the Dark: Young People and the Cinema During the First World War

Chapter 6 The Navy League, the Rising Generation and the First World War

Chapter 7 ‘Girls Who Would Fight’: Young Women and the Call to Arms During the First World War

Chapter 8 ‘It Didn’t Worry Me a Bit’: Coming of Age in London in the First World War

Chapter 9 Students, Service and Sacrifice: Wartime Education, Adolescent Experiences and Understandings of the First World War

Chapter 10 Women at the Front and Class Enemies Reconciled: Anachronism in First World War Children’s Novels in the Last Four Decades

Chapter 11 Watching and Remembering the Great War: The First World War, Young People, and Television as Sight of Memory, 1968–2014

Chapter 12 Problematising Palatable Pasts: Histories and Children in Britain’s First World War Commemoration