This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed throu

Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.

This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children’s literature through their representations of work

Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war. In-depth a

Publishing for children between 1930 and 1960 has been denigrated as a relatively fallow period for creativity and quality, certainly in comparison with the ‘