The Great War, Memory and Ritual by Mark Connelly

The Great War, Memory and Ritual by Mark Connelly

This detailed case study of a part of London shows how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War.

Local historians will relish the way contrasting case studies are developed as a powerful means of analysis, using an array of sources including newspapers, council records, church, school, business and hospital archives, parish and political magazines and pamphlets, memoirs and oral histories, photos and war memorials.A provocative and important book.it remains a valuable read. * FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY *
A fascinating, nuanced account of the manner in which the characters and communities in one corner of south-eastern England shaped the forms and styles of memorials erected in the years following the Armistice.... Highly recommended. * CERCLES *
An excellent piece of original research, and an engaging study of how the fallen of the Great War were remembered through observance and memorial. * MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY *
A very good and very readable detailed case study. * ARMCHAIR AUCTIONS *
The war memorials of the 1914-1918 war are to be found everywhere in the British Isles....Through the meticulous scholarship of Mark Connelly, we can once again hear the voices of those who created them. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
A deep knowledge of memoirs, newspaper files, and local archives enables Connelly to show the communitarian codes that underlay the war memorial movement as well as the conflicts and divisions these activities occasioned. * ALBION *

Mark Connelly's fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, Cream City Review, The Ledge, Milwaukee Magazine, The Great American Literary Magazine, and Digital Papercut. He received an Editor's Choice Award in Carve Magazine's Raymond Carver Short Story Contest in 2014; in 2015 he received Third Place in Red Savina Review's Albert Camus Prize for Short Fiction. In 2005 Texas Review Press published his novella Fifteen Minutes, which received the Clay Reynolds Prize.

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ISBN 13	9780861933273
ISBN 10	0861933273
Title	The Great War, Memory and Ritual
Author	Mark Connelly
Series	Royal Historical Society Studies In History New Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Year published	2015-02-19
Number of pages	271
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