Expert Round Table on Second World War Britain: New Texts/New Themes

The Royal Society of Edinburgh funded Second World War Studies Network (Scotland) aims to facilitate the discussion and exchange of ideas on the theme of the Second World War. In September 2021, it held an expert round table discussing the original themes emerging from recent key texts in the field of Second World War British History.

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The invited authors were:

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

Jonathan Fennell - "Fighting the People’s War: the British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)

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 and Professor Toby Kelly, co-founders of the SWW Network, and Professor Jeremy Crang, will act as facilitators. 

For further information on the Network or to join the mailing list, please email Emma Forth, Project Administrator, (eforth@exseed.ed.ac.uk).