This book seeks to place children and young people centrally within the study of the contemporary British home front, its cultural representations and its place

Spanish Flu' killed more than 50million people and afffected millions more across the globe between 1918 and 1920. Soldiers, POWs and workers in war-industries

Historically seen as figures of pity and foreboding – poverty stricken receivers of charity, tragic figures dressed in black and even sometimes sexually vorac

This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.