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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Great War"”.
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Wesham During the Great War
… community characteristics of Wesham prior to the Great War. It will then seek to identify any continuums and changes during and post conflict, comparing these to identified national trends. Considering initial responses, a cursory view would assume that the high number of volunteers was indicative …
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Propaganda and Poetry during the Great War.
<p>During the Great War, poetry played a more significant role in the war effort than articles and pamphlets. A campaign of extraordinary language filled with abstract and spiritualized words and phrases concealed the realities of the War. Archaic language and lofty phrases hid the horrible truth …
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Engendering race: Jamaica, masculinity and the Great War
… experiences of black Jamaican volunteers in the Great War in the context of challenges to white masculinity presented by the conflict. Elaine Showalter's discussion of "male hysteria" is developed to show that the prevalence of shell shock brought into question constructs of black masculinity. …
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Patriotic labour in the era of the great war
… of scholarship completed on the First World War, relatively little work has focused on the British Left and the conflict. The aim of this thesis is to rectify this, by examining left-wing support for the war effort, and the implications of this for the labour movement. This study aims to …
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Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and the Great War discourse on "Shell-Shock"
Introduction: The infantrymen of the Great War experienced the unimaginable. Soldiers in the trenches internalized images of confusion and gore, and returned to a society unwilling and often unable to comprehend their sacrifices. For nearly 65,000 of these soldiers, their experiences on the front …
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God, Grief and Community:Commemoration of the Great War in Huddersfield, c. 1914-1929
… of Yorkshire, during and after the First World War. It examines the creation of war memorials at all levels, from the borough-wide official scheme, through those relating to smaller geographical areas within it, and down to individual voluntary associations. The source material underpinning the …
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For King and Country: Reconsidering the Great War Soldier in Britain, 1914-1945
<p>In the postwar period historians argued that the horrors of the First World War created an irreparable disconnect between soldiers’ pre and postwar lives. Scholars led by Paul Fussell and Eric Leed presented the Great War as a futile waste of life for a meaningless cause. This historiography …
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The ‘Next Great War': Eric Linklater’s Responses to the Crises of the 1930s
… leading to the nadir of the Second World War. The thesis reveals the depths of profundity beneath the often humorous surface of Linklater’s work, how his use of comedy is at times the most apt way to respond to the absurdity of totalitarianism and war, but at other points misses the mark, …
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Unsung Equine Heroes: An Analysis of Equine Care and Management During the Great War
… Expeditionary Forces throughout the First World War, particularly examining various aspects of war equine care and management. It addresses the significance behind the use of these animals in the war before delving into the reality of how equines were cared for in terms of farrier work, skin care …
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Autonomy in the Great War: the experience of the German soldier on the Eastern Front
… and physical victims trapped in total war that was out of their control. Military historians have maintained that these ordinary German soldiers acted not as victims but as perpetrators causing atrocities in the occupied lands of the Eastern Front. This paper seeks to build on the …
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The Loss of Gallant Illusion: Aspects of the Narrative Before and After the Great War.
… styles in North American fiction after the Great War.
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The impact of the Great War on a local community: the case of East Lothian
This is a study of the impact of the Great War on one local community - the Lowland Scottish county of East Lothian. The thesis examines the economic, social and political consequences of the war in the short term of the war years and in the longer perspective of the first pre-war decade. The …
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Playing American: race and citizenship in American theatre and performance during the Great War, 1917-1919
… performance during US active engagement in the Great War through focusing on performances by and about German immigrants and African American soldiers. Quickly after President Woodrow Wilson requested a declaration of war against Germany, the American homefront became a site of coercive …
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Aspects of national identity in the art songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams before the Great War
… Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) composed before the Great War expressed the composer’s vision of “Englishness” or “English national identity”. These terms can be defined as the popular national consciousness of the English people. It is something that demands continual reassessment because it is …
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A Land Fit for Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914
… in the British Army during the First World War, Ireland's sizeable contribution to the war remained in the shadows of history for most of the twentieth century. This dissertation examines the cultural components of the memory of the Great War in Ireland and argues that, taken together, they …
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