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The Battle of Britain in the Modern Age, 1965–2020

The State’s Retreat and Popular Enchantment

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  1. Garry Campion

    1. Great Doddington, UK

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  • Assesses the afterlives of the Battle of Britain in British popular history and memory since 1965

  • Analyzes how the Battle has been memorialized and commodified in media, popular culture, historiography, and heritage sites

  • Appeals to scholars and readers interested in military history, the history of World War II, and modern British history

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. The Longest Enchantment?: The Battle of Britain in Society and Culture, 1965–2020

    • Garry Campion
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Narrow Margin: The Battle of Britain in History, 1965–2020

    • Garry Campion
    Pages 29-65

  4. An Exceptional Few: Leaders, Heroes and Their Memorialisation

    • Garry Campion
    Pages 67-108

  5. A Piece of Cake: Consuming the Battle of Britain

    • Garry Campion
    Pages 109-150

  6. The State’s Retreat?: The RAF Museum and the Battle of Britain Hall, 1978–2016

    • Garry Campion
    Pages 151-181

  7. Spitfire Summer: Museums and Heritage Sites

    • Garry Campion
    Pages 183-223

  8. An Enduring Legacy?: Battle of Britain Airfields

    • Garry Campion
    Pages 225-252

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 253-369
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About this book

The Battle of Britain has held an enchanted place in British popular history and memory throughout the modern era. Its transition from history to heritage since 1965 confirms that the 1940 narrative shaped by the State has been sustained by historians, the media, popular culture, and through non-governmental heritage sites, often with financing from the National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund. Garry Campion evaluates the Battle’s revered place in British society and its influence on national identity, considering its historiography and revisionism; the postwar lives of the Few, their leaders and memorialization; its depictions on screen and in commercial products; the RAF Museum’s Battle of Britain Hall; third-sector heritage attractions; and finally, fighter airfields, including RAF Hawkinge as a case study. A follow-up to Campion’s The Battle of Britain, 1945–1965 (Palgrave, 2015), this book offers an engaging, accessible study of the Battle’s afterlives in scholarship, memorialization, and popular culture.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Great Doddington, UK

    Garry Campion

About the author

Garry Campion is the author of The Good Fight: Battle of Britain Propaganda and The Few (Palgrave, 2008), and The Battle of Britain, 1945–1965: The Air Ministry and the Few (Palgrave, 2015). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the British Commission for Military History.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Battle of Britain in the Modern Age, 1965–2020

  • Book Subtitle: The State’s Retreat and Popular Enchantment

  • Authors: Garry Campion

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26110-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26109-2Published: 08 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26112-2Published: 08 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26110-8Published: 26 September 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 369

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, History of Military, History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, History of Modern Europe

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