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Second World War Network (Scotland)

Second World War Network (Scotland)

Funded by The Royal Society of Edinburgh 2021-2023

Expert Round Table: ‘New Texts, New Themes’

In September 2021 we held an expert round table discussing the original themes emerging from recent key texts in the field of Second World War British History.

 

Our invited authors were:

 

Alan Allport

Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941, London: Profile Books Ltd., 2020

 

Lucy Noakes

Dying for the Nation : Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020

 

Beryl Pong

British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime: for the duration, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Daniel Todman

Britain’s War: A New World: 1942-1947, London: Allen Lane, 2020

 

Wendy Webster

Mixing It : Diversity in World War Two Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018

 

Dr Wendy Ugolini, Professor Toby Kelly and Professor Jeremy Crang – co-founders of the SWW Network – acted as facilitators.

 

The round table took place on Wednesday 8th September, from 3pm – 5pm BST, on Zoom.

 

 

A recording of the event can also be viewed here.

 

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