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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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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.

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Bloomsbury Academic
1350006963 / 9781350006966
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
28/06/2018
United Kingdom
English
228 pages
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