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'Ten Pound Poms'
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Table of Contents

List of figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
A note on punctuation of interviews
Introduction
PART I EMIGRATION
1. Imagining Australia
22 Leaving Britain
3. Between two worlds
PART II BRITONS IN POSTWAR AUSTRALIA
4. Strangers on the shore
5. 'Butlins without the laughs': life on the hostel
6. An Australian working life
7. Suburban dreams and family realities: making a home in Australia
8. Ten pound pioneers of the back-packing generation
9. ‘My wayward heart’: the British exodus from Australia
PART III MIGRATION, MEMORY AND IDENTITY
10. Coming 'home'
11. British Australians: migration, nationality and identity
Appendix: statistical summary of project interviews
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

A. James Hammerton is Honorary Research Associate at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Alistair Thomson is Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex and Reader in Continuing Education and History

Reviews

"This book presents a brilliantly vivid, informative, sensitive and thoughtful account of the major post-war migration stream to Australia. Because the authors write in an intelligent, lucid and jargon-free manner, this is a book accessible to many."--Steven Constantine, University of Lancaster.

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