Author: ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.
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R.A.M.C.:Great War 1914-1919, Roll of Honour
Author: ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.
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Roll of Honour
Author: Barry Blades
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473873894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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The Great War was the first 'Total War'; a war in which human and material resources were pitched into a life-and-death struggle on a colossal scale. British citizens fought on both the Battle Fronts and on the Home Front, on the killing fields of France and Flanders as well as in the industrial workshops of 'Blighty'. Men, women and children all played their part in an unprecedented mobilisation of a nation at war. Unlike much of the traditional literature on the Great War, with its understandable fascination with the terrible experiences of 'Tommy in the Trenches', Roll of Honour shifts our gaze. It focuses on how the Great War was experienced by other key participants, namely those communities involved in 'schooling' the nation's children. It emphasises the need to examine the 'myriad faces of war', rather than traditional stereotypes, if we are to gain a deeper understanding of personal agency and decision making in times of conflict and upheaval. The dramatis personae in Roll of Honour include Head Teachers and Governors charged by the Government with mobilising their 'troops'; school masters, whose enlistment, conscription or conscientious objection to military service changed lives and career paths; the 'temporary' school mistresses who sought to demonstrate their 'interchangeability' in male dominated institutions; the school alumni who thought of school whilst knee-deep in mud; and finally, of course, the school children themselves, whose 'campaigns' added vital resources to the war economy. These 'myriad faces' existed in all types of British school, from the elite Public Schools to the elementary schools designed for the country's poorest waifs and strays. This powerful account of the Great War will be of interest to general readers as well as historians of military campaigns, education and British society.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473873894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Great War was the first 'Total War'; a war in which human and material resources were pitched into a life-and-death struggle on a colossal scale. British citizens fought on both the Battle Fronts and on the Home Front, on the killing fields of France and Flanders as well as in the industrial workshops of 'Blighty'. Men, women and children all played their part in an unprecedented mobilisation of a nation at war. Unlike much of the traditional literature on the Great War, with its understandable fascination with the terrible experiences of 'Tommy in the Trenches', Roll of Honour shifts our gaze. It focuses on how the Great War was experienced by other key participants, namely those communities involved in 'schooling' the nation's children. It emphasises the need to examine the 'myriad faces of war', rather than traditional stereotypes, if we are to gain a deeper understanding of personal agency and decision making in times of conflict and upheaval. The dramatis personae in Roll of Honour include Head Teachers and Governors charged by the Government with mobilising their 'troops'; school masters, whose enlistment, conscription or conscientious objection to military service changed lives and career paths; the 'temporary' school mistresses who sought to demonstrate their 'interchangeability' in male dominated institutions; the school alumni who thought of school whilst knee-deep in mud; and finally, of course, the school children themselves, whose 'campaigns' added vital resources to the war economy. These 'myriad faces' existed in all types of British school, from the elite Public Schools to the elementary schools designed for the country's poorest waifs and strays. This powerful account of the Great War will be of interest to general readers as well as historians of military campaigns, education and British society.
Birmingham and the Great War, 1914-1919
Author: Reginald Henry Brazier
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Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Roll of Service in the Great War, 1914-1919
Author: University of Aberdeen
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The Great War and Medieval Memory
Author: Stefan Goebel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521854156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521854156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.
Great War, 1914-1918
Author: Isle of Man. War Pensions Committee
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Languages : en
Pages : 161
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Pages : 161
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The Great War
Author: Marc Ferro
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Memory and Memorials
Author: William Kidd
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351918281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The twentieth century, perhaps more than any other, was shaped by war and conflict. In particular, the two world wars have had a profound influence on the development of world history, especially in western Europe. The aim of Memory and Memorials, however, is not to seek the effects war has had on the twentieth century, but rather to explore how societies chose to remember wars and manipulate this memory for political and cultural purposes. Tackling issues of actual memory, distorted memory and reconstructions of the past, the use and nature of the war memorial, and the reflection of all these points in selected art, literature and film, the main theme of Memory and Memorials is to stress both continuity and change in memory and memorial.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351918281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The twentieth century, perhaps more than any other, was shaped by war and conflict. In particular, the two world wars have had a profound influence on the development of world history, especially in western Europe. The aim of Memory and Memorials, however, is not to seek the effects war has had on the twentieth century, but rather to explore how societies chose to remember wars and manipulate this memory for political and cultural purposes. Tackling issues of actual memory, distorted memory and reconstructions of the past, the use and nature of the war memorial, and the reflection of all these points in selected art, literature and film, the main theme of Memory and Memorials is to stress both continuity and change in memory and memorial.
The Great War, Memory and Ritual
Author: Mark Connelly
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0861932536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The work concentrates on the planning of, fund-raising for, and erection of war memorials and then goes on to show how those memorials became a focus for a continuing need to remember, particularly each year on Armistice Day."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0861932536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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The work concentrates on the planning of, fund-raising for, and erection of war memorials and then goes on to show how those memorials became a focus for a continuing need to remember, particularly each year on Armistice Day."--BOOK JACKET.
The Edinburgh University Calendar
Author: University of Edinburgh
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Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Pages : 878
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