Children’s reading 1939-45
I was not quite three when the war started in 1939, but became a keen reader during the next six years. Favourite books, carried from one part of Britain to another as my parents moved home after home to avoid bombing, helped provide a welcome sense of continuity to a world otherwise very much in f...
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| Pubblicato in: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/strenae, |
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Strenae
2024
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | I was not quite three when the war started in 1939, but became a keen reader during the next six years. Favourite books, carried from one part of Britain to another as my parents moved home after home to avoid bombing, helped provide a welcome sense of continuity to a world otherwise very much in flux. With numbers of book warehouses destroyed during 1940 bombing raids on London Docks there followed a great shortage of all books for children. I sometimes wonder whether my own future academic... |
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