The second World War and the 'other British Isles' : memory and heritage in the Isle of Man, Orkney, and the Channel Islands / Daniel Travers.
What is often held to be Britain's 'finest hour' - the Second World War - was not experienced so uniformly across the British Isles. On the margins, the war was endured in profoundly different ways. While D-Day or Dunkirk is embedded in British collective memory, how many Britons can...
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London, UK ; New York :
Bloomsbury,
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Their finest hour?
- Collective remembrance and the British war narrative
- Manifestations of the myth
- sites of memory
- 2. The other British Isles at war
- The Isle of Man
- Orkney
- Channel Islands
- 3.The Isle of Man
- Manx culture
- Commemoration of the Second World War on the Isle of Man
- Material representations of the war
- 4. Orkney
- The Norwegian Scots
- Commemorating the Second World War
- War relics and tangible sites of memory
- The legacy of Orkney's Italian prisoners of war
- 5. Channel Islands
- A ̀peculiarity of the Crown'
- Heritage direction in the Channel Islands
- Liberation Day.