Susan R. Grayzel, "The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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The Importance of Preparing for the Next War
I was struck by the image that you have as well of the, it's almost a dystopian nightmare in some instances because it is the mother walking down the street in a full gas mask herself with her. This idea that somehow you were going to feel safer putting your baby in this particular device that I was described as like it's a little rolling coffin almost right kind of unwields. To me looking at that was very similar to seeing the images of teachers in classrooms in 2020 wearing those full on essentially gas masks or oxygen masks and saying they're going to teach that way. There's nothing you know from a modern sensibility I would say or my own that's very reassuring about this but
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