![]() ![]() ![]() That is, they were experienced physically and emotionally-in physical and mental wounds, in ruptured domesticities and new opportunities and in the wholesale disruption and re-formation of communities displaced by bombing and reconstruction. For them, its effects were directly embodied. Yet as the articles in this volume observe across a variety of examples, World War II affected individuals, groups and communities in ways both intimate and immediate. ![]() Typically, they have been explored in relation to demographic, socioeconomic, technological and geopolitical trends and events. From the advent of the ‘cradle to grave’ Welfare State to the end of (formal) empire, the effects of total war were enduring. ![]() It is something of a cliché to speak of Britain as having been transformed by the traumas of World War II and by its aftermath. ![]()
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