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Contesting Home Defence
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction: contested histories
PART ONE: POLITICAL CHALLENGES
2. The People’s Army: competing visions of the Home Guard
3. Women, weapons and home defence
PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS
4. The Home Guard in wartime popular culture
5. Representations of women and home defence
6. Dad's Army and Home Guard history
PART THREE: PERSONAL TESTIMONY
7. Men’s memories of the Home Guard
8. Women, memory and home defence
9. Conclusion
Appendix 1 Personal Testimony: Women
Appendix 2 Personal Testimony: Men
Bibliography

About the Author

Penny Summerfield is Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester. Corinna Peniston-Bird is Lecturer in History at the University of Lancaster

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