Bøker av Lucy Noakes

A brand-new social history of how Briton's felt about and celebrated VE Day, utilising the rich Mass Observation archives - published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of VE Day in 2025.

This text looks at public and private ideas of national identity in times of war, how they were arrived at and the extent to which they were shaped by gender.

Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime - not just to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones, but to the state, tasked with managing the deaths of its citizens in conflict. -- .