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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"British Army"”.
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Stress in British Army personnel
… a lack of recent research on stress in the British Army which addresses either traumatic or organisational stress. This study considers soldiers' experiences of both occupational and traumatic stress, in addition to identifying the contribution of an individual's expectations and evaluations …
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The recruitment of the British Army 1807-1815
… relied on a small, highly trained, professional army, in keeping with the warfare of the eighteenth century. Britain is seen as distinct and insulated from the experiences on the continent. It is undeniable that Britain had peculiar strategic, structural, and political restraints that impacted on …
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Combat motivation in the eighteenth-century British army
… to Military history. Combat motivation in the army of eighteenth-century Britain merits study, since the subject as it pertains to pre-industrial armies has at present received little attention. The soldiers of Hanoverian Britain received motivation from several sources. Basic training in the …
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Scotland and the British army, c.1700-c.1750
The historiography of Scotland and the British army in the early eighteenth century largely concerns the suppression of the Jacobite risings and the growing assimilation of Highland soldiers into its ranks during and after the Seven Years War. This thesis seeks to redress this by foregrounding all …
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Narrating Identity: Career Soldiers Anticipating Exit from the British Army
Career soldiers exiting the British Army undergo routine “resettlement” processes to tackle their adjustment into civilian employment. This is a transition made by thousands of leavers each year, but little is known about how coming out of the Army is individually experienced and understood, or …
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The validation of the selection of male British army officers
… Board as a method for the selection of army officers. The research suggests that the Regular Commissions Board is moderately predictive of training and regimental performance, although little direct evidence is found that the Board is able to validly identify those who will be able to …
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Energy management practices in the Ministry of Defence: the British Army
… levels of energy management in some areas of the British Army (Army) have been identified, which if left unchecked, may lead to ineffective energy management practices and inefficiencies which are common in many organisations. This will have financial and environmental implications for the …
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British Army Music in the Interwar Years: Culture, Performance, and Influence
This thesis aims to identify how British army bands in the interwar years were a primary stakeholder in the music industry and to explore their role in projecting soft power for the British military. There were approximately 7,000 full-time bandsmen serving in the British army, which was about a …
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Sickness and Service: The British Army and the First World War
… icknessa nd ill health experiencedb y the British Army during the First World War. A review of the literature has confirmed that this issue offers considerable scope for further exploration by historians, and is an issue that continues to remain in the shadow of the wounded.The focus within …
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Spectacle and power: Military imagery and the British Army, 1803-1856
In the early nineteenth century, the British army placed a high priority on maintaining a splendid outward spectacle, but this was not merely the result of sartorial frivolity on the past of military commanders. Images constitute a fundamental means by which peoples' opinions and actions are …
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The British Army in Ireland 1961-1921 : a social and cultural history
… is to provide a social and a cultural history of British soldiers who served in Ireland during the revolutionary period stretching from the Easter Rising of 1916 to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. As such, it represents the first concerted attempt to view the period though the eyes of the …
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Invisibility, appropriation, subversion: British Army observation posts at the Shankill Falls divide, 1972
… buildings that were appropriated by the British Army: a public housing project, a police station, a hospital, and a former linen mill. Through ethnographic interviews and archive research, I reconstruct speculative architectural drawings of each observation post. I consider how these …
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The development of the British army during the wars with France, 1793-1815
The British Army that fought the engagement at Waterloo in 1815, was outwardly little changed from that which was engaged in the initial campaigns of the Wars, twenty-two years previously. Line upon line of red-coated, musket-armed infantry, manoeuvred as chess pieces across open fields, deciding …
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