Histories, Memories and Representations of being Young in the First World War

Introduction- Maggie Andrews, N.C. Fleming, Marcus Morris
Part I: Childhood in War
1. 'Birmingham clapped her hands with the rest of the world, welcoming the signs of peace': Working-Class Urban childhoods in Birmingham, London, and Greater Manchester during the First World War- Rebecca Ball 2. The radical responses made by women in Manchester, during the First World War, to the 'special problems of child life accentuated by the war'- Alison Ronan 3. Childhood Interrupted: Work and Schooling in Rural Worcestershire- Maggie Andrews, Anna Muggeridge, Hayley Carter and Lisa Cox-Davies
Part II: Youth in War
4. Fears of the dark: young people and the cinema during World War One- Melanie Tebbutt 5. The Navy League, the Rising Generation and the First World War- N.C. Fleming 6. 'Girls Who Would Fight': Young Women and the Call to Arms during the First World War- Marcus Morris 7. 'It Didn't Worry Me a Bit': Coming of Age in London in the First World War- Ruth Percy 8. 'Students, Service and Sacrifice: Wartime Education, Adolescent Experiences and Understandings of the First World War'- Keith Vernon and Oliver Wilkinson
Part III: Memories and Representations
9. Women at the Front and class enemies reconciled: Anachronism in First World War children's novels in the last four decades- Jane Rosen 10. Watching and Remembering the Great War: The First World War, Young People, and Television as Sight of Memory, 1968-2014- Sam Edwards 11. Problematizing Palatable Pasts: Histories and Children in Britain's First World War Commemoration- Maggie Andrews