{"id":32384,"date":"2023-08-24T05:30:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T05:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/why-is-the-second-world-war-so-central-to-narratives-of-british-history-and-national-identity\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T05:30:42","slug":"why-is-the-second-world-war-so-central-to-narratives-of-british-history-and-national-identity","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/why-is-the-second-world-war-so-central-to-narratives-of-british-history-and-national-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Second World War so central to narratives of British history and national identity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

need a 2000 word essay written on the above title with reference to the publication ‘Mass Observation’ which was around during this period, reference to films and propagnda is also needed and how they affect the memory of the war today in Britain <\/p>\n

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Why does the war become so visible, not just in popular culture but also in political discourse, over this period? (1980s-1990s)<\/span><\/div>\n

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How \u2013 and why \u2013 do you think the dominant cultural memory changed in Britain in the 1980s?<\/span>
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How was the Second World War represented in Britain\u2019s Falklands\/Malvinas War (1982) and also in its involvement in the Iraq War of 1990?<\/span>
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Whose stories are foregrounded, and whose are marginalised, in this recasting of the cultural memory of the war?<\/p>\n

Did the Second World War take on a new importance in British public life in the 1980s? If so, why?<\/span>
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What \u2013 and who \u2013 was being commemorated? What \u2013 and who \u2013 was being left out?  Why?<\/span>
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need a 2000 word essay written on the above title with reference to the publication ‘Mass Observation’ which was around during this period, reference to films and propagnda is also needed and how they affect the memory of the war today in Britain  key questions to look at  Why does the war become so visible, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[524],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/32384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/32384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=32384"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=32384"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=32384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}