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...world of Coronation Street supplies resources for reimagining the everyday spaces that the show’s viewers occupy. As the fictional lives of the characters on Coronation Street unfold, the soap is a space where contesting views and perspectives are aired, inviting the audience into on-going political contestation as part of their ordinary television watching routines. It...

...World War I Recruitment poster] Offering the government a bracelet for to re-fashion into a bullet wasn’t an unusual gesture in 1915. If Britons weren’t putting their lives in the line, many felt compelled to make financial sacrifices to help pay for the war. With most taxable economic activity suspended, the country had to finance much of its military spending by...

...World War II and to bolster Britain’s depleted workforce. In 1948 the UK and Colonies citizenship was created. Accordingly, every citizen of the Commonwealth had the right to reside in the UK. Estimates suggest this could have meant as many as 800 million people. There were arrivals from all over the Commonwealth. But host communities were not offered enough by way of...