Books by A. James Hammerton

This is the first book to explore the multiple country movement of migrants of the 'British diaspora' since the 1960s. It is an engaging oral history of migrant experiences and attitudes, based largely on intimate life histories which connect migration to life experiences like love and marriage, radical 'lifestyle' change and global identities. -- .

More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story, illuminated by the riveting testimony of migrant life histories -- .

'original, imaginative and challenging...brings concerns together about gender, the family, and wider currents in British social, cultural and even political experience in the second half of the 19th century.' - Leonore Davidoff