Contesting Home Defence - Summerfield, Penny a Peniston-Bird, Corinna (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History)

Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home Guard's reputation and explores whether this 'people