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National Service Life Stories - Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant, Joel Morley

National Service Life Stories

Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain
Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289896-8 (ISBN)
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National Service Life Stories studies the impact that compulsory military service had on men, using original, in-depth oral interviews with over one hundred ex-national servicemen to shine new light on changing meanings of class, masculinity and citizenship, as well as the complexities of popular memory.
National service was a defining feature for a generation of young men in post-war Britain. Around 2.3 million of them were called up between the end of World War Two and 1963, when conscription ended. However, national service was forgotten almost before it had ended, a process aided subsequently by professional historians who have been reluctant to assess its longer-term influence on British social and political history.

Based on original oral interviews with well over one hundred men, this book explores the ways in which compulsory military participation reverberated in the memories of interviewees long beyond the end of conscription, and how these early military experiences shaped their later life stores. Unlike existing accounts that tend to rely on memoirs written by officers, or else oral interviews that concentrate narrowly on the details of military service, this study focusses instead on men from working-class backgrounds and it situates national service in the context of the life course and the wider transformations that have occurred in British society since conscription ended. In so doing, the work shines new light on important areas of current scholarly interest and historiographical concern, including the changing meaning and experience of class, masculinity, and citizenship, as well as the complexities of popular memory.

Peter Gurney is Professor of British Social History at the University of Essex, where he has taught since 1999. Matthew Grant has taught history at the University of Essex since 2013, having previously worked at the Universities of Sheffield, Manchester, and Teesside. Joel Morley specialises in the social and cultural history of war in twentieth-century Britain, and oral history. He was awarded a PhD in History at Queen Mary University of London, and has since taught at QMUL and the University of Birmingham, and held post-doctoral research positions at the University of Essex and the University of Bristol.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.2.2025
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-289896-5 / 0192898965
ISBN-13 978-0-19-289896-8 / 9780192898968
Zustand Neuware
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