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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Ex-servicemen"”.
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Enabling the Great War: Ex-Servicemen, the Mixed Economy of Welfare and the Social Construction of Disability, 1899-1930
Upwards of 750,000 British ex-servicemen returned home permanently disabled from the First World War. Dealing with the enormity of war time disability put great strain on medical and financial resources and forced the British government to reassess, and radically alter its responsibilities towards …
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Bolshevizing Britain in the Interwar Imagination
… action to ensure Britain's long-term survival. Examining the novels of four British popular fiction writers (H. C. McNeile's Bull-Dog Drummond (1920) and The Black Gang (1922), Emerson C. Hambrook's The Red-Tomorrow (1920), Edward Shanks's The People of the Ruins (1920), and J. D. Beresford's …
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In the shadow of war: continuities and discontinuities in the construction of the masculine identities of British soldiers, 1914-1924
… subject of enormous critical debate. This study examines how masculinities were disrupted and. reconstructed during and after the war. It is a study of British men, previously civilians, who became servicemen in the First World War. It aims to map the continuities and discontinuities in the …
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Commercial farming and social change in Mkushi district, 1945-1975
… with agricultural development within the context of a changing environment both under colonial rule and in the post-colonial period. It is a case study of Mkushi District in which a farm block was established where white farmers, especially ex-servicemen, were settled on crownland in the …
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Commercial farming and social change in Mkushi district, 1945-1975
… with agricultural development within the context of a changing environment both under colonial rule and in the post-colonial period. It is a case study of Mkushi District in which a farm block was established where white farmers, especially ex-servicemen, were settled on crownland in the …
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The `Peace Arsenal' scheme: the campaign for non-munitions work at the Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich, after the First World War
… a campaign which drew in traders, councillors, ex-Servicemen and clerics. The effect of this was to aid the integration of the local labour movement into the national constitution which was being reconstructed at the time. Central aspects of this new constitution were an increase in the …
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Foreign fields: identity and location in soldiers' writings of the First World War
This thesis explores the central importance of locations to the soldiers' experience of the First World War. In particular, it examines the ways in which place forms their sense of identity during the War, and colours their memories after it. The Western Front, through years of concentrated …
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Care Work and Nursing in Royal Greenwich Hospital, 1705-1714
… the early eighteenth century. In particular, it examines the experiences of nurses who cared for disabled ex-servicemen in Greenwich, a hospital for former sailors, in the early eighteenth century. Early modern naval nursing developed out of complex intersections of gendered ideas about care …
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Minorites, military service, and the legacies of post-war reconstruction in the British Isles, 1918-1939
… have been slow to recognise the role and experiences of Britain’s minority communities in shaping notions of citizenship during the first decades of British mass democracy, the thesis focuses on the role of military service in the formation of minority rights agendas. Scholarship on the …
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Grub Street and academia : the relationship between journalism and education, 1880-1940, with special reference to the London University Diploma for Journalism, 1919-1939
… British universities between 1880 and 1970. It examines the arguments presented for, and against, such moves and describes the various courses introduced to meet the demands of education for journalism. These include the first, 4 commercial, London School of Journalism of 1887, the syllabus …