A multi-generational oral history study considering English collective memory of the Second World War and Holocaust

This thesis provides a survey of the English memory of the Second World War and Holocaust using oral interviews. Drawing from work by Halbwachs on collective memory and Grele on myth-making I demonstrate how people use national collective memory to provide frameworks for their individual narratives...

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Main Author: McKay, Thomas Joseph
Other Authors: Jensen, Olaf. ; Davies, Martin
Published: University of Leicester 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555478