Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War. It involved men and women of every class, generation and locality in Britain. This book examines how civil defence personnel developed local workplace communities, engaged with ideas about civil duty, and helped to create the myth of the 'people's war'.
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Jessica Hammett is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol -- .
Creating the people’s war examines how the personnel of the civil defence services understood and represented themselves as essential wartime workers. Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War and involved millions of men and women of every class, generation and geographical location in Britain. This is the first book to focus on civil defence, and it explores both the importance of the organisation within the war effort and the everyday experiences of personnel.
The book asks: why has the ‘people’s war’ been such a persistent and attractive myth? It shows how this myth was used by ordinary people to describe the value of their work, disputing hierarchies of war service. Fractures and divisions within civil defence continued throughout the war on lines of gender, generation, class and morality.
Chapters focus on First World War veterans, housewives, adolescents, conscientious objectors and couples engaging in extra-marital affairs. Sources used include personal narratives in diaries, memoirs and oral histories alongside popular representations. Significantly, the book highlights the importance of group narratives through records of conversation and co-produced community civil defence magazines.
This examination of civil defence shows that in their social groups and personal narratives, volunteers were able to reshape understandings of citizenship and duty to fit their own circumstances. They wrote themselves into the ‘people’s war’ and invested it with meaning, creating national identity from the bottom up.
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