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Calvary Or Catastrophe? French Catholicism's First World War
... aims for peace and reconstruction as evinced in his writing on Catholicism and society? The mixed reaction to the text by high-profile literary and philosophical figures in France such as André Gide and the French ...
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Introduction: Untold Legacies of the First World War
... It is a truism that the First World War had a dramatic impact on 20 th -century British society. The expansion of the British electorate, the greater opportunities available to women and an improvement of ...
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The British Centennial Commemoration of the First World War
... Finally, the satirising of the high command reached new heights with the BBC comedy televi- sion production of Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), an immensely influential series. The comedy required hardly any scene setting ...
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From Brel to Black Metal: The First World War in Popular Music and Music Videos
... a First World War song is probably ‘Pack Up Your Troubles’ or ‘Over There’ but since the late 1950s there have been around 500 newly composed songs featuring the War in one form or ...
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Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War
... The third section of Psychological Trauma centres on how the medical profession responded to large-scale psychiatric breakdown. The focus is less on the theories and concepts that physicians developed during wartime, ...
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Philanthropy in Britain during the First World War
... Many of these are still in use today, such as flag days, which, though not invented during the First World War, mushroomed after 1914. Direct mail to potential donors was used for the first time to ...
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The rhetoric of disfigurement in First World War Britain
... has emerged as a recurring (I am tempted to say, haunting) presence in this interdisciplin- ary domain. 10 The most recent of these are War and Medicine, at the Wellcome Collection in London; and Faces of Battle, at the ...
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Shell shocked: trauma, the emotions and the First World War
... despite first dipping into it as an undergraduate and probably getting through more than half of it in disjointed segments over the intervening ...the First World War on British society, but it would ...
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Re evaluating syndicalist opposition to the First World War
... the First World War, Thorpe also acknowledged, although he did not emphasise, important qualifications to this stance in certain national contexts - notably the collapse into patriotism of the CGT in France ...
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Combat Resilience in the First World War – a Historiographical Review
... Because of the success enjoyed by youth organizations like the Boy Scouts, sacrificial ideology ‘reveals itself most clearly and personally’ in the letters of soldiers.(5) If they had not been successful, sacrificial ...
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Mapping the First World War Using Interactive Streamgraphs
... Abstract In this paper, we use unsupervised named entity recognition and streamgraphs in order to visualize massive amounts of unstructured textual stream data, namely, French newspapers (e.g. Le Figaro, La presse, ...
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Art from the First World War Review Article
... the First World War runs from 19 July 2014 to 8 March 1915, and is billed as ‘the largest exhibition of British First World War Art for almost 100 years; over 120 works from the usual suspects ...
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British Diplomacy on Albania during the First World War
... the First World War was very much interested in the situation in ...the First World War it had a completely different policy in relation to Albania, coming to the position of making ...
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Aftershocks: Violence in Dissolving Empires after the First World War
... Finally, John Paul Newman’s contribution looks at the various responses from Habsburg South Slavs, especially Croats, to the demise of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and ...
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The French Army and the First World War
... As Elizabeth Greenhalgh alludes to in the introduction of her well-researched and constructed monograph, The French Army and the First World War, common perceptions of France’s military experience between ...
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Men of Science: The British Association, Masculinity and the First World War
... the First World War the BAAS was generally seen as no longer fulfilling the vital role it had played in the nineteenth century as the chief arena for the demonstration and public presentation of ...
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Representing, Remembering and Rewriting Women’s Histories of the First World War
... response to the hundreds of thousands of war deaths. Laura Seddon Gendered Musical Responses to First World war Experiences investigates how women composers responded to the First World War in ...
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First World War Digital Resources
... own First World War website [7]. As with the first two sites reviewed, the Library’s resources are collated into broad themes based upon the political, military and social history of the ...the ...
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The First World War Centenary in the UK: ‘A Truly National Commemoration’?
... the First World War, the position of historians as the primary mediators of nationhood through the articulation of national history has been gradually superseded by at least two ‘memory booms’ widely ...
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Conrad and the First World War
... During the First World War, Conrad believed himself peripheral to a transitional historical moment. In November 1914, he wrote : ‘ the thoughts of this war sit on one’s chest like a nightmare. I am ...
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