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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Defence of the Realm Act"”.
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Drug-related activity in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland between 1900 and 1922: what evidence can be found through systematic searches of the Times digital achive.
Much has been written about drug-taking during the nineteenth century, particularly in relation to opium. However, the early twentieth century has received considerably less attention, despite being a crucial period in the history of drug-taking within Britain. During 1916, the Defence of the Realm …
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Empire and Emergency: Reverberations of the British Empire in the Authorisation of Internment under the Defence of the Realm Acts
Regulation 14B of the Defence of the Realm Acts, which was issued in June 1915, empowered the Secretary of State to intern individuals, including British subjects, he deemed to be “of hostile origin or association” for the purpose of “securing public safety or the defence of the Realm”. The Defence …
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Pulling oneself together: power and character in British literature, 1914-1939
A revealing legend from the First World War told of a tribe of deserters from all armies that had reverted to a pre-political “state of nature,” living beneath no-man’s-land in abandoned trenches and pillaging corpses in the night. This tale inspires the under-examined question that is central to …