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The Second World War and the 'other British Isles' : memory and heritage in the Isle of Man, Orkney, and the Channel Islands
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ISBN: 1350006955 1350006971 1350006963 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"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 recall that Finns were interned on the Isle of Man, that enemy soldiers developed British infrastructure in Orkney, or that British subjects were sent to concentration camps from Guernsey? Such experiences, tangential to the dominant British war narrative, are commemorated elsewhere in the 'other British Isles'. In this remarkable contribution to British Island Studies, Daniel Travers pursues these histories and their commemoration across numerous local sites of memory: museums, heritage sites and public spaces. He examines the way these island identities assert their own distinctiveness over the British wartime story, and ultimately the way they fit into the ongoing discourse about how the memory of the Second World War has been constructed since 1945."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Islands and Britishness
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ISBN: 1283436523 1443835439 9786613436528 9781443835435 9781283436526 1443835161 9781443835169 6613436526 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Islands and archipelagos hold great imaginative power, and they have long been a subject of study for cartographers and geographers, for anthropologists and historians of colonisation. But what does it mean to be an islander? Can one feel both British and Manx, for example? What are British tourists looking for when they go to former island colonies? How do past relationships with Britain affect islands today? This collection takes a variety of perspectives to provide answers to such question...


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The Long Aftermath : Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016

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