A hard rain: Children's shrapnel collections in the second world war

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 107-125

  Moshenska, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood; Collecting; Home front; Memory; Warfare

Indexed keywords

CHILD; MATERIAL CULTURE; MEMORY; WAR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 40149110933     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: 14603586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359183507086221     Document Type: Article

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