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, not just in popular culture but also in political discourse, over this period? (1980s-1990s)
How – and why – do you think the dominant cultural memory changed in Britain in the 1980s?
How was the Second World War represented in Britain’s Falklands/Malvinas War (1982) and also in its involvement in the Iraq War of 1990?
Whose stories are foregrounded, and whose are marginalised, in this recasting of the cultural memory of the war?
Did the Second World War take on a new importance in British public life in the 1980s? If so, why?
What – and who – was being commemorated? What – and who – was being left out? Why?