Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction: The fabric of war; Citizen soldiers and fighting families; Soldiers' stuff; War work; Patriotism at play; Little Britons and future citizens; The limits of loyalty; Homes away from home; Threads of consolation; Peace: 'Too sad to understand'; Acknowledgements ; Endnotes; Bibliography; Image credits; Index

About the Author

Kate Hunter is a social historian with an interest in World War One. Currently Associate Professor and Head of the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, she researches and teaches on gender, family and race relations, including the social and cultural histories of the Great War. She is an Honorary Research Associate at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the author of many articles and books, including Father’s Right-Hand Man: Women on Australia’s Family Farms, 1880s to the 1920s (2004) and Hunting: A New Zealand History (2009).

Kirstie Ross is Curator Modern New Zealand at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, specialising in 20th century social history and material culture. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Slice of Heaven: 20th Century Aotearoa and Te Papa’s World War One centennial exhibition, and has written popular and scholarly articles and essays on topics ranging from soldier photography to camping and tramping, as well as the book Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century (2008).