The Great War, Memory and Ritual by Mark Connelly
This detailed case study of a part of London seeks to show how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War.-
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The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873
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The Dying and the Doctors
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Protesting about Pauperism
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Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France
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John Wyclif on War and Peace
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Gender and Space in Early Modern England
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Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire
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The War of Words
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Leprosy and Charity in Medieval Rouen
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The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England
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Women as Public Moralists in Britain
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The Political Life of Josiah C. Wedgwood
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Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in pre-Revolutionary Europe
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Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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Protection and Politics
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The Scottish Middle March, 1573-1625
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Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain
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Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535-1584
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Jacobitism and Anti-Jacobitism in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1727
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The Village World of Early Medieval Northern Spain
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Religion, Time and Memorial Culture in Late Medieval Ripon
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Women and Religion in Late Medieval Norwich
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Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England
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Imagining Roman Britain
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Time and the French Revolution
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Britannia's Glories
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Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898
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Harold Wilson's Cold War
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Heresy in Medieval France
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George Chastelain and the Shaping of Valois Burgundy
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Patterns of Philanthropy
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Red Flag and Union Jack
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 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 *
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 *
Professor of Modern British Military History, University of Kent
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| ISBN 13 | 9780861932535 |
| ISBN 10 | 0861932536 |
| Title | The Great War, Memory and Ritual |
| Author | Mark Connelly |
| Series | Royal Historical Society Studies In History New Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 271 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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