Roll of Honour by Barry Blades

Roll of Honour by Barry Blades

The Great War was the first Total War; a war in which human and material resources were pitched into a life-and-death struggle on a colossal scale. British citizens fought on both the Battle Fronts and on the Home Front, on the killing fields of France and Flanders as well as in the industrial workshops of Blighty. Men, women and children all played their part in an unprecedented mobilisation of a nation at war. Unlike much of the traditional literature on the Great War, with its understandable fascination with the terrible experiences of Tommy in the Trenches, Roll of Honour shifts our gaze. It focuses on how the Great War was experienced by other key participants, namely those communities involved in schooling the nations children. It emphasises the need to examine the myriad faces of war, rather than traditional stereotypes, if we are to gain a deeper understanding of personal agency and decision making in times of conflict and upheaval. The dramatis personae in Roll of Honour include Head Teachers and Governors charged by the Government with mobilising their troops; school masters, whose enlistment, conscription or conscientious objection to military service changed lives and career paths; the temporary school mistresses who sought to demonstrate their interchangeability in maledominated institutions; the school alumni who thought of school whilst knee-deep in mud; and finally, of course, the school children themselves, whose campaigns added vital resources to the war economy. These myriad faces existed in all types of British school, from the elite Public Schools to the elementary schools designed for the countrys poorest waifs and strays. This powerful account of the Great War will be of interest to general readers as well as historians of military campaigns, education and British society.

Barry Blades is an independent researcher working on topics related to the History of Education and the Great War, 1914-1919. He began his career as a teacher of History in secondary schools in London and Peterborough and later became a Deputy Headteacher and Associate Headteacher. He has also been a secondary School Governor, a primary school Chair of Governors, a Trustee for an educational charity and a Visiting Lecturer in the History of Education. From 2006 to 2010 Barry was an Education Consultant working directly with headteachers and sponsors of new secondary schools and Academies projects.

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ISBN 13	9781399074728
ISBN 10	1399074725
Title	Roll of Honour
Author	Barry Blades
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2022-07-26
Number of pages	304
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