Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century

1 Recovery, Retrieval and Healing 1.1 Reflexivity 1.2 Recovery 1.3 Our Fathers' Deaths 1.4 Writing a Life 2 Missing Persons 2.1 Picking Up the Pieces 2.2 Selective Memory 3 Changing Perspectives on Death, Dying and Loss 4 World War One and its Transformations 4.1 A Farming Family 4.2 The Arrival of Children and War 4.3 Living with the Legacy of Conflict in Ireland 4.4 Life in the Industrialised West Midlands 5 Family Life Between the Wars: 1918-1931 5.1 The Armistice and its Aftermath 5.2 The School Magazine and the Diaries 5.3 The Pathe News Film 5.4 Family Life in the Gilmore Household 5.5 The Route to Brighton 6 War in Prospect, 1930-1939 6.1 The Great Outdoors 6.2 Leaving School, Leaving Topsham 6.3 Reading Between the Lines6.4 The Mannings at Home 6.5 Out to Work 6.6 Mother and Son 6.7 Transitions to Adulthood (1): Sketching 6.8 Transitions to Adulthood (2): Walking 6.9 At Home in a Group 6.10 Brother and Mother 7 At Home and Abroad 7.1 War in Prospect 7.2 Living with War 7.3 Arthur on Active Service 7.4 The Italian Campaign 7.5 The Aftermath 7.6 Enlistment 7.7 Enlistment and Training for the Normandy Landings 7.8 Seven Years of Change 8 Experiencing the Horror of World War Two 8.1 The Bigger Picture 8.2 The Allied Advance 8.3 Personal Journey 9 Growing Up Post-War: All Over Now? 9.1 Home Life 9.2 Fathering 9.3 Social Life 9.4 Leaving Home 9.5 Bringing the Threads Together 9.6 The Impact of War9.7 The End of Family Life 10 Endings and Beginnings 10.1 L'Osteria Restaurant, London 10.2 The Rutland Arms, Bakewell 10.3 Form, Content and Style 10.4 John Lewis, Birmingham 10.5 Death Studies 10.6 Journey's End? 10.7 Legacies We Take Forward 10.8 The Personal and the

Carol Komaromy is Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, UK, where she has worked since 1994.

Jenny Hockey is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK.

"Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century is a rich and engaging memoir that can be accessed by all, regardless of professional background or specialty. Indeed, its wide scope means that it will appeal to anyone interested in genealogy, material culture, military and social history, as well as death studies." (Laura Towers, Mortality, Vol. 24 (1), 2019)