BRITAIN AND THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918
A Subject Bibliography of Some Selected Aspects
compiled
by
Barry Wintour
CONTENTS
PART 1: GENERAL BACKGROUND WORKS
2. Histories
and Studies of the Great War
2.2 Foreign
Policy and Diplomacy
2.4 Labour,
Industrial Relations
2.6 Politicians
and Political Parties
5.2 Social
Conditions, Social Structure
2. Memorialisation
and Commemoration
1.2 Archives
and Special Collections
This website
represents a supplement to the printed bibliography I published in 2014 under
the same title as above. Items
additional to those recorded in the latter publication as they come to my
notice will be listed here from time to time as a means of updating it on a
continuing basis. The headings and
numbering of the sections of this website follow the same structure as that
adopted in the printed publication.
Preambles to the sections are only included in the printed
publication. Apart from the inclusion
of a number of general background works, the bibliography (both the printed
publication and the online updates) primarily aims to list records in the
English language which cover selected aspects of the impact of the First World
War on Great Britain, with some coverage as well of its impact on Ireland. The arrangement is by subjects intended to encompass
publications representative of a selection of the social, political, cultural,
and military aspects of the First World War in relation to the years when the
war was being fought and also to the years after the war had ended. Some
general works are included in prefatory sections of the bibliography as
background material. Some of
the individual works within the sections are provided with an explanatory note
or indication of their contents where this might prove useful to a reader
Details related to my biographical background
can be found on the internet at http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhyl/007/homeRHb.htm
Abbenhuis,
M.M. ‘A Most Useful Tool for Diplomacy and
Statecraft: Neutrality and Europe in the “Long” Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914’,
International History Review, 35 (2013), 1-22
Black,
J. The Age of Total War, 1860-1945 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger
Security International, 2006; repr. Plymouth: Rowman
& Littlefield, 2010)
—
Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great
War to the Fall of France, 1918-40 (London: Bloomsbury, 2012)
Blom.P. The
Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in
the West, 1900-1914 (London:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008)
Ferguson,
N. The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred (London : Penguin, 2007)
Originally published London:
Allen Lane, 2006, under the title The War of the World: 1914-1989
Goebel,
S and D. Keene, eds. Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences, and Commemorations of Total
War (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)
In an analysis of the global impact of military conflict on
metropolises in the era of the First and Second World Wars this work explores
the way in which cities were transformed into battlefields as a result of the
blurring of the the boundaries between home and front.
Harari, Y. N. The
Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War
Culture, 1450-2000 (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Higham, R. and M. Parillo, eds. The Influence of Airpower upon History: Statesmanship,
Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy since 1903 (Lexington,
Kentucky: University
Press of Kentucky, 2013
Howard,
M Empires, Nations, and Wars
(Stroud: Spellmount, 2007)
Originally
published as The Lessons of History: Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1991.
Brings together the major articles and lectures of Sir Michael Howard
during his time at the University of Oxford between 1980 and 1989. Among
them are included ‘Empire Race and War in pre 1914 Britain’,
‘Europe on the Eve of the First World War’, and ‘The Edwardian Arms Race’.
Murray, N. The Rocky
Road to the Great War: The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914 (Washington,
D.C.: Potomac Books, 2013)
Murray,
W. and others, eds. The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy and War,
edited by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich and James Lacey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, 4 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) III: The
Globalizing of America, 1913-1945, by Akira
Iriye
Watson,
A. ‘Culture and Combat in the Western World, 1900-1945', Historical Journal ,
51 (2008), 529-546
Welch,
D. and J. Fox, eds. Justifying
War: Propaganda, Politics and the
Modern Age (Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan, c2012)
Based on papers presented at the conference on 'Justifying war:
propaganda, politics and the modern age' held in Kent, 2007
Bell, C. M. Churchill
and Sea Power (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2013)
Conley, M. From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Representing Naval Manhood in the British
Empire (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2009)
Goodlad,
G. ‘Britain and the Challenge of War’, History Review, 54 (2006), 3-8
— ‘British Governments, War &
Society, 1793-1918’, History Review, 55 (2006), 9-14
Johnson, G. The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the
Twentieth Century (London:
Routledge, 2005)
This book
was previously published as a special issue of the journal, Contemporary
British History
Peden,
G. C. Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen
Bombs (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2007; repr, 2009)
Pois, R. A. and
P. Langer. Command
Failure in War: Psychology and
Leadership (Bloomington,
Ind.: Indiana University Pres, 2004)
Searle, G. R. A New
England: Peace and War 1886-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
Strachan, H. ‘Merging Past with Present:
A History of the Military Historian’, Despatches (The Magazine of
the Friends of the Imperial War Museum), 2, no. 13 (2011), 26-30
A reflection on the changing role of the military historian
Struk, J. Private
Pictures: Soldiers’ Inside View of War (London: I. B. Tauris 2011)
The author looks
at war in relation to the pictures soldiers have taken from the origins of
popular photography in the Boer War through to the present day.
Suonp, M. ‘Britain, Balkan
Conflicts and the Evolving Conceptions of Militarism, 1875-1913’, History,
99 (2014), 632-651
Towle, P. Going to War: British Debates from Wilberforce to Blair (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Wrigley, C. ed. A
Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain (Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2003)
Books
The Cambridge History
of the First World War, edited by Jay Winter and the
editorial committee of the International Research Centre of the Historial de la
Grande Guerre, 3 vols.(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Vol. 1. Global War; Vol..2. The
State; Vol.3. Civil Society
Cowley, R., ed. The Great
War: Perspectives on
the First World War (London: Pimlico, 2004)
Ellis, J. and M. Cox. The
World War I Databook: The Essential Facts
and Figures for all the Combatants (London: Aurum Press, 1993; repr.
2001)
Frantzen, A. J. Bloody Good. Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War (Chicago, Ill: University of
Chicago Press, 2004)
Horne,
J., ed. A Companion to World War I
(Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010; repr. in paperback:
2012)
Keene,
J. D. and M. S. Neiberg, eds. Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First
World War Studies (Leiden:
Brill, 2011)
4th
Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies held in Washington
D.C. in 2007
Meyer, G. J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great
War, 1914-1918 (New York, N.Y.: Bantam Dell, 2007)
Neiberg, M. S. Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005)
— The World War I Reader (New York: New York University Press, 2007)
Sheffield, G. The First World
War Remembered (London: Andre Deutsch in association with IWM, 2014)
The book also contaians a film on DVD
enttled Our Empire’s Fight for Freedom alongside a series of vertans’
first-hand accounts called We Fought on the Western Front
Sondhaus,
L. World War One: The Global
Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Stone, N. World War One: A
Short History (London: Allen Lane 2007)
Storey, W. K. The
First World War: A Concise Global History (Lanham:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2009)
Willmott, H. P. World War I, 2nd edn
(London: Dorling
Kindersley 2008)
Previous
edn published as First World War in 2003 to coincide with the 90th
anniversary of the armistice.
Books
Beckett, I. F. W. The Making of the First World War (New Haven, Conn.;
London: Yale University Press 2012)
Beckett, I. F. W., ed. 1917: Beyond the Western Front (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009)
Bennett, S. H.
and C. F. Howlett, eds. Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I
America: A Documentary Reader (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014)
Ben-Yehuda,
N. Atrocity, Deviance, and Submarine
Warfare: Norms and Practices during the
World Wars (Ann Arbor: The
University of Michigan Press, 2013)
Bergen, L. van.
Before My Helpless Sight:
Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009)
Black, J. The Great War and the Making of the Modern World ( London: Continuum, 2011)
Broadberry,
S. and M. Harrison, eds. The
Economics of World War I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005)
Bürgschwentner, J., and
others, eds. Other Fronts, Other
Wars?: First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial, edited by
Joachim Bürgschwentner, Matthias Egger, Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014)
Cassar G. H. Trial by Gas: The British Army at the
Second Battle of Ypres (Washington,
D.C.: Potomac Books 2014)
Controvich,
J.T. The United States in World War
I: A Bibliographic Guide (Lanham,
Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012)
Dedio, G. and F. Dedio. The
Great War Diaries (London:
BBC Books 2014)
Published to accompany the television series entitled The Great War
Diaries
Dehne,
P. A. On the Far Western Front: Britain’s
First World War in South America (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009)
Duffett, R. The
Stomach for Fighting: Food and the Soldiers of the Great War (Manchester:: Manchester University Press 2012
Floyd, R. Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the
Great War, August 1914-December 1915
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Ford,
R. Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009)
Friedman,
N. Fighting the Great War at Sea:
Strategy, Tactics, and Technology (Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2014)
Hertog,
J. den and S. Kruizinga, eds. Caught in the Middle: Neutrals,
Neutrality and the First World War (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2011)
Hughes-Wilson, J. A
History of the First World War in 100 Objects (London: Cassell Illustrated in association with the
Imperial War Museum, 2014)
Provides a history of the First World War via the stories behind 100 items of material evidence such as weapons, letters home, items of trench decoration, and the paintings of official war artists.
Hull,
I. V. A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and
Making International Law during the Great War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014)
Jones,
H. Violence against Prisoners of War
in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914–1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Kramer, A. Dynamic
of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2007)
Krause,
J., ed. The Greater War: Other
Combatants and Other Fronts, 1914-1918 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Morrow,
J. H. The Great War: An Imperial
History (London:
Routledge, 2003)
Mulligan, W. The Great War for Peace (New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2014)
In this book the author refutes the view that the Great War
and its immediate aftermath had a disastrous effect on the rest of the 20th
century and takes the unconventional line that the first two decades of the
century - and the Great War in particular - played an important role in assisting
the development of a peaceful new order
on a global scale.
O’Hara,
V., and others, eds. To Crown the Waves: The Great Navies of the First World
War {Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press 2013)
Proctor,
T. M. Civilians in a World at War,
1914-1918 (New
York: New York University Press,
2010)
Sondhaus, L. The Great
War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War (Cambridge University
Press,
2014)
Spiering, M. and M. Wintle, eds. Ideas of Europe since 1914:
The Legacy of the First World War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2002)
Stevenson, D.
Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy (New York: Basic Books, 2004)
Striner, R. Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden
Too Great to Bear (Lanham:
Rowman & Littlefield 2014)
Tombs, R. and E. Chabal. Britain and France in Two World Wars: Truth,
Myth and Memory (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)
Tooze, A.
The Deluge: The Great War, America, and the Remaking of the Global
Order, 1916-1931(New York: Viking, 2014)
Wawro G. A Mad
Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg
Empire (New York: Basic
Books, 2014)
Woodward, D. R. America and World War I: A Selected Annotated
Bibliography of English-Language Sources (London: Routledge, 2007)
Articles
Barrett, M. and P.
Stallybrass. ‘Printing, Writing and a Family Archive: Recording the First World
War’, History Workshop Journal, 75 (2013), 1-32
Indian Sepoy Experience in Europe, 1914-18: Archive,
Language, and Feeling’, Twentieth Century British History, 25 (2014), 391-417
‘The Editors New Perspectives on the Cultural History of Britain
and the Great War’, Twentieth Century British History, 25 (2014),
345-346
This review of 4
articles[1] (assembled under the editorial guidance of Martin
Francis), offering a number of new perspectives on the cultural history of
Britain during the war of 1914–8, “constitutes the first of a number of
engagements in the pages of Twentieth Century British History, with
the centenary of the First World War, between now and 2018”.
Feltman, B. K. ‘Tolerance As a Crime? The British Treatment of
German Prisoners of War on the Western Front, 1914-1918’, War In History,
17 (2010), 435-458
Hughes, M. ‘Searching for the Soul of Russia: British Perceptions
of Russia during the First World War, Twentieth Century British History,
20 (2009), 198-226
Lambert, N.A. ‘Righting The Scholarship: The Battle-Cruiser in
History and Historiography’, Historical Journal, 58, (2015), 275-307
Pourcher, Y. ‘Trains in World War I’, Historical
Reflections, 38, Issue 1 (2012), 87-104
Prior, R. ‘The Heroic Image of the Warrior in the First World War’, War
and Society (Duntroon Australia), 23 (2005), 43-52
Rose, S. O. ‘The Politics of Service and Sacrifice in WWI Ireland
and India’, Twentieth Century British History, 25 (2014), 368-390
Rüger, J. ‘Sovereignty and Empire in the North Sea, 1807-1918’, American
Historical Review, 119, (2014), 313-338
Saunders, N. J. Trench Art, 2nd edn (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2011)
Smith, J. ‘Brazil and the Two World Wars’, Historian (Historical
Association), 84 (2004), 16-21
Smith, L.
‘The Wounds of War’, Despatches (The Magazine of the Friends of
the Imperial War Museum), no. 19 (2014), 26-28
An article about The Friends Ambulance Unit during the first World War
Stevenson, D. ‘The First World War and European
Integration’, International History Review, 34, (2012), 841-863
Stibbe, M. ‘The Internment of Civilians by Belligerent States
during the First World War and the Response of the International Committee of
the Red Cross’, Journal of Contemporary History, 41 (2006), 5-20
Winkler, J. R. 'Information Warfare in World War I’, Journal of
Military History, 73 (2009), 845-868
Books
Alexander,
R. S. Europe's Uncertain
Path, 1814-1914 (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2012)
Boemeke,
M. F. and others., eds. Anticipating
Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914; edited by Manfred F. Boemeke, Roger Chickering and Stig Föster, new edn (Cambridge:
German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Blom.P. The
Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in
the West, 1900-1914 (London:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008)
Bönker, D. Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United
States before World War I (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2012)
Chrastil, R. Organizing
for War: France, 1870-1914 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010)
Clark, C. M. The
Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War In 1914 (London: Penguin Books, 2013)
Fromkin,
D. Europe’s Last Summer: Why the World Went to War in 1914 (London: William Heinemann, 2004)
Gardner,
H. The Failure to Prevent World War
I: The Unexpected Armageddon (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014
Hamilton, R. F. and H. H. Herwig, eds. War Planning 1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2010)
Hastings, M. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (London: William Collins, 2013)
Hendrickson,
J. K. Crisis in the Mediterranean:
Naval Competition and Great Power Politics, 1904-1914 (Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2014)
Hobson,
R. Imperialism at Sea: Naval Strategic Thought, the Ideology of Sea
Power and the Tirpitz Plan, 1875-1914 (Boston: Brill Academic Publishers,
2002)
Howard,
M Empires, Nations, and Wars
(Stroud: Spellmount, 2007)
A collection of the major articles and
lectures of Sir Michael Howard during his time as Regius Professor of Modern
History in the University of Oxford between 1980 and 1989. Includes chapters on ‘Prussia in European History’, ‘The Doctrine of the Offensive in
1914’, and ‘Europe on the Eve of the First World War’. Originally
published as The Lessons of History, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1991.
Levy, J. S. and J. A. Vasquez., eds. The Outbreak of
the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-Making (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014)
McMeekin,
S. The Russian Origins of the First
World War (Cambridge,
Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 2011)
MacMillan, M. The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (New York: Random House, 2013)
Miller,
G. D. The Shadow of the Past: Reputation and Military Alliances before the
First World War (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2012)
Mulligan, W. The
Origins of the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010)
Neiberg. M. S. Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 2011)
Nolan, M. E. The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the
Enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914. (New York: Berghahn
Books, 2005)
Otte, T. G. July
Crisis: The World’s Descent Into War, Summer 1914
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014)
Sondhaus, L. World
War One: The Global Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Soroka,
M. Britain, Russia and the Road to
the First World War: The Fateful Embassy of Count Aleksandr Benckendorff
(1903-16), Birmingham Studies in First World War
History (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)
Wawro
G. A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak
of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire (New York: Basic Books 2014)
Zuber,
T. Inventing the Schlieffen Plan:
German War Planning, 1871-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press
2002; repr. 2014)
In this work Zuber challenges the traditional assumptions about the existence of a ‘Schliefen Plan’ and, presenting a radically different picture of German war planning between 1871 and 1914, comes to the conclusion that, in fact, a 'Schlieffen Plan' never really existed.
Articles
Abbenhuis,
M.M. ‘A Most Useful Tool for Diplomacy
and Statecraft: Neutrality and Europe in the “Long” Nineteenth Century,
1815-1914’, International History Review, 35 (2013), 1-22
In this article the author draws attention to the
existence of a nineteenth-century international system in whch Eurpean states
endeavoured to pursue a policy of avoidng war as a way of benefitting their
political, economic, and imperial interests.
Adamthwaite,
A. ‘Organizing for War: France, 1870-1914’, International History Review,
34 (2012), 918-919
Dickinson,
F.R. ‘Toward a Global Perspective of the Great War: Japan and the Foundations
of a Twentieth-Century World’, American Historical Review, 119 (2014),
1154-1183
Dutton,
D. ‘The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World
War/Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’, International History Review,
36 (2014), 815-817
Imlay, T. C. ‘The Origins of the
First World War’, Historical Journal, 49 (2006), 1253-1272
Review articles.
Otte, T.
G. ‘The Great Carnage’, New
Statesman, 13 December 2012
T. G. Otte offers a revisionist reading of the First World War
Ruger,
J. Revisiting the Anglo-German Antagonism’, Journal of Modern History,
83 (2011), 579-617
Review article
Zuber,
T. ‘The Schlieffen Plan: Fantasy or Catastrophe?’, History Today, 52,
Issue 9 (2002), 40-46
In this article the author argues that the German army’s plan for a
quick victory in France in 1914 was a fabrication concocted after the war.
Grayzel,
S. R. ‘“A promise of Terror to
Come”: Air Power and the Destruction of
Cities in British Imagination and Experience, 1908-39’, in Cities into Battlefields:
Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War,
edited by S. Goebel, and D. Keene (Farnham: Ashgate,
2011)
Howard,
M Empires, Nations, and Wars
(Stroud: Spellmount, 2007)
A collection of the major articles and
lectures of Sir Michael Howard during his time as Regius Professor of Modern
History in the University of Oxford between 1980 and 1989. Includes chapters on
‘Empire, Race and War in pre-1914 Britain’, and ‘The Edwardian Arms Race’. Originally published as The Lessons of
History, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Laity,
P. The British Peace Movement
1870-1914 (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001)
Newton, D. The
Darkest Days: The Truth behind Britain’s Rush to War, 1914 (London: Verso , 2014)
Wells, H. G. The War in the Air (London:
Nelson, 1908)
A novel prophetic
of the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare, a phenomenon of total
war which emerged in the First World War and was fully realized in the Second
World War. There have been a number of
reprints of this novel of which one of the most recent was publsied by Penguin
in 2005.
Wilkinson, G. R.
Depictions and Images of War in Edwardian Newspapers, 1899-1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Articles
‘
Bell,
C. M. ‘Sir John Fisher’s Naval Revolution Reconsidered: Winston Churchill at
the Admiralty, 1911-1914’, War In History, 18 (2011), 333-356
Bones, A. J. ‘British National Dailies and the Outbreak of War in
1914’, International History Review, 35 (2013), 975-992
Fletcher,
A. ‘Patriotism, the Great War and the Decline of Victorian Manliness’, History,
99, (2014), 40-72
Hampshire,
J. ‘“Spy fever” in Britain, 1900 to 1914’, Historian (Historical
Association), 72 (2001), 22-27
Johnson,
M. ‘The Liberal Party and the Navy League in Britain before the Great War’, Twentieth
Century British History, 22 (2011), 137-163
Morgan-Owen, D.G. ‘“History
is a Record of Exploded Ideas”: Sir John Fisher and Home Defence, 1904-10’, International
History Review, 36 (2014), 550-572
Paris, M. ‘Fear of Flying: The Fiction of War
1886-1916’, History Today, 43 (1993) 29
Stearn, T. ‘The Case For
Conscription’, History Today, 58, Issue 4 (2008), 16-22
In this article the author points out
that among the supporters of the campaign for compulsory military service in
Edwardian Britain were those who saw this service as a necessary measure
against the threat of invasion and the menace of German militarism.
Autobiographies,
Biographies, Memoirs
Waterhouse,
M. Edwardian Requiem: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (London: Biteback Publishing, 2013)
Books
Johnson, G. The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the
Twentieth Century (London:
Routledge, 2005)
This book
was previously published as a special issue of the journal, Contemporary
British History
Otte, T. G. The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of
British Foreign Policy, 1865–1914 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Owen, D. The Hidden Perspective:
The Military Conversations 1906-1914 (London: Haus 2014)
Soroka, M. Britain,
Russia and the Road to the First World War: The Fateful Embassy of Count
Aleksandr Benckendorff (1903-16), Birmingham Studies in First World War History (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)
Articles
Abbenhuis, M.M. ‘A Most
Useful Tool for Diplomacy and Statecraft: Neutrality and Europe in the “Long”
Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914’, International History Review, 35 (2013),
1-22
In this article the author draws attention
to the existence of a nineteenth-century international system in whch Eurpean
states, particularly Great Britain, endeavoured to pursue a policy of avoidng
war as a way of benefitting their political, economic, and imperial interests.
Bogdanor, V. ‘August 1914:
The Shadows Lengthen’, History Today, 64, Issue 8 (2014), 19-25
In this article Bogdanor takes the view
that, because Britain’s efforts to
preserve the Concert of Europe in the run up to the First World War were in vain as a result of the actions
of other countries, Britain could not avoid being dragged into the conflict.
Otte, T.G. ‘Detente 1914: Sir William Tyrrell’s Secret Mission to
Germany’, Historical Journal , 56 (2013), 175-204
Books
Bridgham, F., ed. The First World War as a Clash of Cultures (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006)
Rose,
L. A. Power at Sea, 3 vols (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press,
2007), III: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918
Among the topics covered in this book
is the naval race
between Britain and Germany in the years before the war.
Rüger,
J. The Great Naval Game: Britain and
Germany in the Age of Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
A new, highly
original perspective on the flourishing of the Anglo-German antagonism before
the First World War.
Scully, R. British Images of Germany: Admiration,
Antagonism, and Ambivalence, 1860-1914 (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Seligmann, M. S, and others, eds. The Naval Route
to the Abyss: The Anglo-German Naval Race 1895-1914, edited by Matthew S.
Seligmann, Frank Nägler and Michael Epkenhans (Farnham: Ashgate 2014)
Articles
Lambert,
N.A. ‘Righting The Scholarship: The Battle-Cruiser in History and
Historiography’, Historical Journal, 58, (2015), 275-307
Lynn-Jones,
S. M. ‘Detente and Deterrence: Anglo-German Relations, 1911-1914’, International
Security, 11 (1986), 121–150
Otte,
T.G. ‘Detente 1914: Sir William Tyrrell’s Secret Mission to Germany’, Historical
Journal , 56 (2013), 175-204
Rüger,
J. Revisiting the Anglo-German Antagonism’, Journal of Modern History,
83 (2011), 579-617
Review article
Wilkinson,
R. ‘Germany, Britain and the Coming of War in 1914’, History Review, 42
(2002), 21-26
An explanation of what went wrong in Anglo-German
relations before the Great War.
Books
Blyth,
R. J. and others, eds. The
Dreadnought and the Edwardian Age, edited
by Robert Blyth, Andrew Lambert and Jan Rueger
(Farnham:
Ashgate, 2011)
Cobb, S. Preparing for
Blockade, 1885-1914: Naval Contingency for Economic Warfare (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013)
Grimes, S. T. Strategy
and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2012)
Jones, M. ‘About Turn:
British Strategic Transformation from Salisbury to Grey’, in The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy and War, edited by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich and
James Lacey (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Lambert, N. A. Planning Armageddon: British
Economic Warfare and the First World War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012)
Parkinson, R. The Late Victorian Navy: The
Pre-Dreadnought Era and the Origins of the First World War (Woodbridge:
Boydell Press, 2008)
Prete, R. A. Strategy
and Command: The Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009)
Seligmann,
M. S. The Royal Navy and the German
Threat 1901-1914: Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against
Germany (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012)
Articles
Martin,
C. ‘The Complexity of Strategy: `”Jackie'” Fisher and the Trouble with
Submarines’, Journal of Military History, 75 (2011), 441-470
French, D.. Military
Identities: The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People, c.
1870-2000 (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005)
Jones, S. From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army,
1902-1914 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012)
Mallinson. A. 1914: Fight the Good Fight: Britain, the Army and the
Coming of the First World War (London:
Bantam Press, 2013)
Prete, R.A. Strategy and Command: The Anglo-French Coalition on the Western
Front, 1914 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009)
Articles
Connelly, M. L. ‘The Army, the Press and the Curragh Incident,
March 1914’, Historical Research, (Oxford), 84; (2011), 535-557
Evans, N. ‘The British Army and Technology before 1914’,
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 90 (2012), 113-122
Hall, B. N. ‘The “Life-Blood” of Command? The British Army,
Communications and the Telephone, 1877-1914’, War and Society (Duntroon
Australia), 27, Issue 2 (2008), 43-66
Mallinson, A. ‘The British Army: The New Contemptibles?’, History Today, 64, Issue 8 (2014), 4-5
The
author sees a parallel between the neglect of the British Army in recent years
to the state of affairs in August 1914.
Books
Boyd,
K. Manliness and the
Boy’s Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940 (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
Deslandes, P. R. Oxbridge
Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University
Press, 2005)
Johnson, M. Militarism
and the British Left, 1902-1914 (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2013)
This work challenges the view that early twentieth century
British militarism was identified with the Radical Right.
Mcgaughey, J. G. V. Ulster’s Men: Protestant Unionist
Masculinities and Militarization in the North of Ireland, 1912-1923 (Montreal; Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012)
1.1 Books
Best, G. F. A. Churchill and War (London: Hambledon and London, 2005)
Best, N. The Greatest Day
in History: How The Great War Really Ended (London:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)
Brown, M. The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914: The Men Who Went to War (London: Sidgwick
and Jackson, 2004)
Charman, I. The Great War: The
People’s Story (London: Random
House, 2014)
A reconstruction of the
experiences of indivduals through their diaries and
letters published to accompany the ITV series of the same title transmitted in
August 2014
Gregory, A. The Last
Great War: British Society and the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Roper, M. The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010)
Winegard, T. C. Indigenous
Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
1.2 Local and Regional Studies (see also Part
3, section 2.9 on Ireland)
British
Association For Local History. Local
History and the First World War [http://www.balh.org.uk/education/local-history-and-the-first-world-war]
Cookstown’s War Dead, 1914-1918; 1939-1945, compiled and
edited by Cookstown District Council in conjunction with The Friends of the Somme
Mid Ulster Branch (Cookstown: Cookstown
District Council, 2007)
Haxby Local History Group. Haxby in Wartime 1914-1918 and 1939-1945,
researched and compiled by
Pauline Briggs ... [et al.]. Editor: Tom Smith (Malton:
Bestprint & Design, 2004)
Nunn, D. Britannia Calls: Nottingham Schools and the Push for Great War
Victory (Nottingham: Knowle Hill Publishing, 2010)
Britannia Calls “was a play
performed by Nottingham elementary school children on Empire day 1915 and
1916”--T.p. verso.
Sokoloff,
S. ‘Review Article: Books on Local Aspects of the First World War’, Local
Historian , 45, Number 1 (2015), 71-73
White,
B. ‘Sowing the
Seeds of Patriotism? The Women’s Land Army in
Devon, 1916-1918’, Local Historian (The
British Association for Local History), 41 (2011), 13-27
Books
Bilbrough,
E. My War Diary 1914-1918
(London: Ebury Press in association with IWM, 2014)
Snapshot of what life was like on the home front during
the First World War
Charman, I. The Great War: The People’s Story
(London: Random House,
2014)
A reconstruction of the
experiences of indivduals through their diaries and
letters published to accompany the ITV series of the same title transmitted in
August 2014
Charman, T.
The First World War on the Home Front (London: Andre Deutsch in association with IWM, 2014)
In this book Terry Charman (Senior IWM Historian) draws on the archives of the Imperial War Museum to feature previously unpublished excerpts from diaries, letters, and newspaper reports that illustrate the wide-ranging social and economic changes that took place in Britain during the war years.
Duncan, R. Pubs and Patriots: The Drink Crisis
During World War One (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2013)
Kennedy, R. The Children’s War: Britain, 1914-1918 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2014)
Proctor, T. M. Civilians
in a World at War, 1914-1918 (New York: New York University Press,
2010)
Roper, M. The
Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War
(Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2010)
Ugolini, L. Civvies: Middle-Class Men on the English
Home Front, 1914–18 (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2013)
Van Emden, R. and S. Humphries. All Quiet on the Home Front: An Oral History of Life in Britain during
the First World War (London:
Headline 2003)
Articles
Feltman,
B.K. 'Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees during the
First World War', Social History, 39 (2014), 128-130
Elliot,
R. ‘An Early Experiment in National Identity Cards: The Battle Over
Registration in the First World War’, Twentieth Century British History,
17 (2006), 145-176
Fisher,
J. ‘The Impact of Military Service on the British Foreign Office and Diplomatic
and Consular Services, 1914-8’, International History Review, 34,
(2012), 431-448
Grant, P. ‘“An
Infinity of Personal Sacrifice”: The Scale and Nature of Charitable Work in
Britain during the First World War’, War And Society (Duntroon
Australia), 27, Issue 2 (2008), 67-88
Grayzel,
S. R. ‘Defence Against the Indefensible: The Gas Mask, the State and British
Culture during and after the First World War’, Twentieth Century British
History, 25 (2014), 418-434
Panayi, P. ‘Today's History: Forgotten Prisoners of the Great
War’, History Today, 62, (2012), 34-35
Pourcher,
Y. ‘Trains in World War I’, Historical Reflections, 38, Issue 1 (2012),
87-104
Sykes, A. ‘Which War? The English Radical Right and the First World
War’, War and Society (Duntroon
Australia), 23 (2005), 59-74
White,
J. ‘London’s Wartime Housing Crisis’, History
Today, 63, Issue 11 (2013), 43
About the housing crisis in
London preccipitated by the Great War and its profound effect on all classes
and on the capital.
Autobiographies,
Biographies, Memoirs
Roynon, G. Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries
of Georgina Lee, 1914-1919 (Stroud: Sutton, 2006)
In a work that provides a vivid insight into the manner in which
British society coped with the pressures and crises of the First World War the
reader is able to detect that the mood of the diarist changes from one of
optimism initially to one eventually of having to face the fact that the war
was going to be of a long and drawn out duration.
Books
Hochschild, A. To
End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011)
Pennell,
C. A Kingdom United: Popular Responses
to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2012)
Articles
Bourne, S. ‘Black Poppies: The Experiences of Black Citizens of
Britain and the Empire, who answered the call to serve the Mother Country
during the First World War’, History Today, 63, (2013), 51-71
Collins, T. ‘English Rugby Union and the First World War’, Historical
Journal , 45 (2002), 797-818
“The idea that war was a football match writ large was commonly expressed in Britain during the First World War. This article looks at the attitudes and actions of the English Rugby Football Union and its supporters before, during, and after the First World War to examine how such beliefs were utilized by sports organizations and the impact they had on the military and on society as a whole. Rugby union football was viewed both by its supporters and general observers alike as the most enthusiastic and committed sporting supporter of the war effort; the article explores rugby's overtly ideological stance as a means of shedding light on broader discussions about the cultural impact of the war, such as in the works of Paul Fussell and Jay Winter, and about the continued survival of traditional and Edwardian ideas of patriotism among the English middle classes in the immediate post-war period.” [Abstract from the internet]
Fletcher, A.
‘Patriotism, the Great War and the Decline of Victorian Manliness’, History,
99, (2014), 40-72
— ‘A New Moral Order: Britain at the Start of the Great War’, History Today, 64, Issue 8 (2014), 26-33
In this
article the author explores the response of ordinary people in Britain to the
declaration of war during August 1914.
Pennell, C.
‘Community Responses to the Outbreak of War, August 1914’, Local History
News, Number 104
(Summer 2012)
Books
Deslandes, P.
R. Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity
and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920 (Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, 2005)
Articles
Barnard-Cogno,
C. ‘Jane Harrison (1850-1928), between
German and English Scholarship’, European Review of History, 13 (2006),
661-676
Irish,
T. ‘Fractured Families: Educated Elites In Britain and France and the Challenge
of the Great War’, Historical Journal, 57, (2014), 509-530
Contemporary Writings of Academics on the War
‘Right and Left Among the Professors: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch on Huns and
Historians’, Cambridge Magazine, 4 (1914), 119
Laybourn, K.,
and D. Murphy. Under the Red Flag: A
History of Communism in Britain, c.1849-1991 (Stroud:
Sutton, 1999)
Books
Bevir, M. The
Making of British Socialism (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011)
Laybourn, K., and D. Murphy.
Under the Red Flag: A History of Communism in Britain, c.1849-1991
(Stroud: Sutton, 1999)
Autobiographies,
Biographies, Diaries, Memoirs
Brock,
M., and others.ed. Margot
Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street, selected
and edited by Michael and Eleanor Brock; with the assistance of Mark Pottle (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2014)
Margot Asquith’s diary of this period, as selected and presented in this work, is an interesting evocation of the British politicis of this period, providing a fascinating insight into the wartime scene as viewed from 10 Downing Street, revealing the political skirmishing that lay behind the warfare on the Western Front, and including character sketches of many important figures such as Lloyd George, Churchill, and Kitchener.
Cassar,
G. H. Lloyd George at War 1916-1918
(London: Anthem Press, 2009; repr. 2011)
Farr,
M. Reginald McKenna: Financier among
Statesmen (London: Routledge, 2008)
James, L. Churchill and Empire (London:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013; repr. London: Phoenix, 2014)
Thompson, J.
L. Forgotten Patriot: A Life of
Alfred, Viscount Milner of St. James’s and Cape Town, 1854-1925 (Madison,
N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press, 2007)
Toye,
R. Churchill’s Empire: The World
that Made Him and the World He Made (London: Macmillan, 2010; repr.
1915
Waterhouse, M. Edwardian Requiem: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (London: Biteback Publishing, 2013)
Williamson, P. Stanley Baldwin:
Conservative Leadership and National Values (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Books
Bridgen, P. The Labour Party and the Politics of War
and Peace 1900-1924 (Woodbridge; Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2009)
Cawood, I. The
Liberal Unionist Party: A History (London; New York: I.B. Tauris,
2012)
Fry, M.
G. And Fortune Fled: David Lloyd
George, the First Democratic Statesman, 1916-1922 (New York; Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011)
Keohane, N. The
Party of Patriotism: The Conservative Party and the First World War (Farnham: Ashgate, 20100
Laybourn, K.,
and D. Murphy. Under the Red Flag: A
History of Communism in Britain, c.1849-1991 (Stroud:
Sutton, 1999)
Wyburn-Powell, A. Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910 to
2010: A Study of Inter-Party Relations
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012)
Articles
Johnson, M. ‘The
Liberal War Committee and the Liberal Advocacy of Conscription in Britain,
1914-1916’, Historical Journal, 51 (2008), 399-420
Quinault,
R. ‘Asquith: A Prime Minister at War, History
Today, 64, Issue 5 (2014), 40-46
Roland Quinault re-evaluates the wartime reputation of Herbert Asquith, who resigned as premier in late 1916.
Hampton, M. Visions of
the Press in Britain, 1850-1950 (Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 2004)
Articles
Bones, A.J. ‘British National Dailies and the Outbreak of War in
1914’, International History Review, 35 (2013), 975-992
Drisceoil,
D. O. ‘Keeping Disloyalty within Bounds? British Media Control in Ireland, 1914-19’,
Irish Historical Studies, 149 (2012), 52-69
Finn, M. ‘Local
Heroes: War News and the Construction
of “Community” in Britain, 1914-18’, Historical Research (Oxford) 83
(2010), 520-538
Focusing
on the city of Liverpool and its environs as a case study this article argues
that a view of the trench experience, fostered both by soldiers’ correspondence
and the local press, helped to provide community-oriented narratives of combat
that contributed to making bereavement bearable, war better understood and
mobilization sutainable.
Neander, J. and R. Martin. ‘Media and Propaganda: The Northcliffe Press and the
Corpse Factory Story of World War I’, Global Media Journal, 3 (2010),
67-82
Bergen, D. L.,
ed. The Sword of the Lord: Military
Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century (Notre
Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004)
Best, K. A Chaplain at
Gallipoli, the Great War Diaries of Kenneth Best, edited by G. Roynon, War Diaries (London: Simon & Schuster in
association with the Imperial War Museum, 2011)
Madigan,
E. Faith under Fire: Anglican Army
Chaplains and the Great War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011)
Wiel. J. A.
de. The Catholic Church in Ireland,
1914-1918. War and Politics (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2003)
Articles
Field, C. ‘Keeping the Spiritual Home Fires Burning: Religious
Belonging in Britain during the First World War’, War And Society
(Duntroon Australia),33, 2014), 244-268
Morgan, S. ‘A “Feminist Conspiracy”: Maude Royden, Women’s
Ministry and the British Press, 1916-1921’, Womens History Review, 22
(2013), 777-800
In arguing that Royden’s rise to fame has a bearing on the connections between feminism, suffrage and women’s ordination this article examines the way in which the latter controversial issues were handled by individual churchmen through the religious and popular press.
Fitzpatrick,
D. Harry Boland’s Irish Revolution (Cork: Cork
University Press, 1999; repr. 2003)
Foster,
R. F. Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary
Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 (London: Allen Lane 2014)
Grayson, R. S. Belfast Boys:
How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War (London: Continuum, 2010)
Hart, P. The
IRA at War, 1916-1923 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
McGarry,
F. The Rising: Ireland, Easter 1916
(Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011)
Mcgaughey, J. G.
V. Ulster’s Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities and Militarization in the
North of Ireland, 1912-1923 (Montreal; Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012)
McMahon, P. British Spies and Irish Rebels: British
Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945 (Woodbridge: Boydell
Press, 2008)
Paseta, S. Irish Nationalist
Women 1900-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2013)
Pennell,
C. ‘Presenting the War in Ireland, 1914-1918’, in World War
I and Propaganda, edited by T. R. E. Paddock (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014)
Townshend,
C. Easter 1916: The
Irish Rebellion (London: Allen
Lane, 2005; repr. London: Penguin,
2006)
Wheatley,
M. Nationalism and
the Irish Party: Provincial Ireland, 1910-1916 (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005)
Articles
Bull, P.
‘Sacrifice, Liberalism and the Great War: The Case of Ireland’, War And
Society (Duntroon Australia), 23 (2005), 13-22
Dooley, T. A.
M. ‘County Monaghan, 1914-1918:
Recruitment, the Rise of Sinn Féin and the Partition Crisis’, Clogher Record,
16 (1998), 144-158
Drisceoil, D. O.
‘Keeping Disloyalty within Bounds? British Media Control in Ireland, 1914-19’, Irish
Historical Studies, 149 (2012), 52-69
Gibney, J.
‘Ireland: Easter Rising or Great War?’, History Today, 65, Issue 4
(2015), 7
McConnel, J.
‘Recruiting Sergeants for John Bull? Irish Nationalist MPs and Enlistment
during the Early Months of the Great War’, War In History, 14 (2007),
408-428
Rose, S. O. ‘The
Politics of Service and Sacrifice in WWI Ireland and India’, Twentieth Century
British History, 25 (2014), 368-390
Autobiographies,
Biographies, Memoirs, Diaries
Appleton,
E. A Nurse at the
Front: The Great War Diaries of Sister
Edith Appleton, edited by Ruth
Cowen, War Diaries (London: Simon & Schuster in association
with the Imperial War Museum, 2013)
Badeni, J The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell
(Padstow: Tabb House, 1981)
Bilbrough,
E. My War Diary 1914-1918
(London: Ebury Press in association with IWM, 2014)
Snapshot of what life was like on the home
front during the First World War
Brock,
M., and others.ed. Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View
from Downing Street, selected and edited by Michael and Eleanor Brock;
with the assistance of Mark Pottle. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2014)
Bullock, I. and
R. Pankhurst, eds. Sylvia
Pankhurst: From Artist to Anti-fascist
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992)
Crewdson, R., ed. Dorothea’s War: The Diary of a First World War Nurse (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
2013)
Books
Fell, A. S. and
C. E. Hallett, eds. First World War
Nursing: New Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2013)
A
collection of works by scholars in a collaborative approach to Allied wartime
nursing in a wide range of interdisciplinary aspects such as the history of the
profession, recruitment, teaching, differing national socio-political
backgrounds, and traditional cultural and gender notions of women and
nursing.
Griffin, B. The
Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain:
Masculinity, Political Culture, and the Struggle for Women’s Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Hannam, J. and K.
Hunt. Socialist Women: Britain, 1880s to 1920s (London: Routledge 2002)
Hendley,
M. C. Organized Patriotism and the Crucible of War: Popular Imperialism in Britain, 1914-1932 (Montréal, Québec: McGill-Queen’s University
Press, 2012)
In
this book’s comparison of how three major patriotic organizations founded
between 1901 and 1902 (the National
Service League, the League of the Empire, and the Victoria League) fared during the war the author shows
that the National Service League, with its strongly masculinist and
militaristic character, failed to flourish in wartime whereas the League of the
Empire and the Victoria League, strongly female in their membership and with
aims and concepts related to education and hospitality, family, home and
kinship, prospered not only during the war but beyond into the 1920’s. The author sees this as an indication of how
the traumatic nature of the Great War produced a fundamental reshaping of
popular patriotism and imperialism that is evident to the author in his
comparison of the post-war histories of the above organizations. This book affords an insight into women's roles in
Britain during the height of popular imperialism.
Jackson. L. A. Women
Police: Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006)
King, S. Women, Welfare,
and Local Politics, 1880-1920: “We might be trusted” (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2006)
Noakes, L. Women
in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948 (London: Routledge, 2006)
Paseta, S. Irish Nationalist Women 1900-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2013)
Potter, J. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women’s Literary Responses to the Great
War 1914—1918 (Oxford: Clarendon, 2005)
Powell,
A. Women in the War Zone: Hospital
Service in the First World War (Gloucestershire:
History Press 2009)
Zweiniger-Bargielowska, I., ed.
Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (Harlow: Longman, 2001)
Articles
Benton, S. ‘Women, War and Citizenship’, History Workshop
Journal, 58 (2004), 326-334
Review of Nicoletta Gullace’s, The Blood of Our Sons: Men, Women and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship during the Great War (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and Sonya Rose’s, Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Heald, H. ‘For England’s Sake: Women Engineers in the First World
War’, History Today, 64, Issue 10 (2014), 28-35
The author discusses the
opportunities the First World War presented to women interested in engineering,
Kitching, P. ‘Four Faces
of nursing and the First World War’, Historian (Historical Association),
119 (2013), 30-35
McCarthy, H. ‘Pacifism and Feminism in the Great War’, History
Today, 65, Issue 4 (2015), 4
McDermid, J. ‘Women at Work, 1860-1939: How Different Industries
Shaped Women’s Experiences’, Social History, 39 (2014), 279-281
McEnroe, N. ‘The Duchess
and the Soldier’, History Today, 64 (2014), 4-5
This article is about the ten oil paintings by Victor Tardieu (1870-1937) which depict the tented field hospital established and run by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland at Bourbourg, twelve miles south-west of Dunkirk, during the summer of 1915. Tardieu served there as an auxiliary with the Duchess of Sutherland for several months and subsequently joined the American Ambulance Field Service, during which time he was commissioned to produce war posters used to generate funds from the American public. The ten paintings were given to the Duchess by the artist and have descended through the Sutherland family. They have now been acquired by the Florence Nightingale Museum, which exhibited them to honour the work of the Duchess of Sutherland and her nurses in the First World War from March 14th to October 26th, 2014 [http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/]. The image accompanying McEnroe’s article [Oil on panel. 8.5 x 10.75 inches. Signed, inscribed and dated, 'Bourbourg Aout 1915'. Dedicated to Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland (1867-1955)] is one of the ten paintings exhibited.
Monger, D. ‘Nothing Special?: Propaganda and Women’s Roles in Late First World War Britain, Women's
History Review, 23 (2014), 518-542
“This article explores women’s roles as subjects, objects and producers of
National War Aims Committee propaganda in Britain during 1917–18” (extract from
an abstract on the internet)
Morgan, S. ‘A “Feminist Conspiracy”: Maude Royden, Women’s
Ministry and the British Press, 1916-1921’, Womens History Review, 22
(2013), 777-800
In arguing that Royden’s rise to fame has a bearing on the connections between feminism, suffrage and women’s ordination this article examines the way in which the latter controversial issues were handled by individual churchmen through the religious and popular press.
Reeves, J. ‘The
Liverpool Women’s War Service Bureau and its Work 1914-1918’, Local
Historian, 44, (2014), 312-324
Roberts, H. ‘A Woman’s Eye: British Women and Photography during the
First World War’, Despatches (The Magazine of
the Friends of the Imperial War Museum), no. 18 (2014), 40-44
An article by Hilary Roberts, IWM Curator
of Photography, about the role of women photographers in the First World War
Scollan, M. ‘Gladys Lilian King and the Work of the Women Police
in London’s Strand 1918-19: A Memoir’, Womens
History Review, 23 (2014), 256-271
This edited
transcription of a previously unpublished memoir, written by Gladys Lilian
King, describes the work of the Women Police Service in London’s Strand during
the last years of the First World War when she was stationed at the Beaver Hut
(opened by the Canadian Young Men’s Christian Association in 1918). Based on her experience there she provides
an insight into the supervision of Commonwealth soldiers by women police.
Ward, P. ‘Women of Britain Say Go: Women’s Patriotism in the First
World War’, Twentieth Century British History, 12 (2001), 23-45
The author examines the patriotic activities of some
aristocratic and middle-class women in Great War and notes that these had
repercussions on postwar politics.
White, B. ‘Sowing the
Seeds of Patriotism? The Women’s Land Army in Devon, 1916-1918’, Local
Historian (The British Association for Local History), 41 (2011),
13-27
Woollacott, A. ‘Maternalism,
Professionalism and Industrial Welfare Supervisors in World War I Britain’, Women’s
History Review, 3 (1994), 29-56
Articles
Millman, B. ‘HMG and the War against Dissent, 1914-18’, Journal
of Contemporary History’, 40 (2005), 413-440
Books
Mcdermott, J.
British Military Service Tribunals, 1916-1918: ‘A Very Much Abused Body of Men’ (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2011)
Articles
McDermott, J. ‘Conscience and the Military Service Tribunals during the First World War: Experiences in Northamptonshire’, War in History, 17 (2010), 60-85
Smith, L. ‘The Wounds of War’, Despatches (The
Magazine of the Friends of the Imperial War Museum), no. 19 (2014), 26-28
An article about The Friends Ambulance Unit during the First World War
Spinks, P. ‘“The
War Courts”: The Stratford-upon-Avon Borough Tribunal 1916-1918’, Local
Historian (The British Association for Local History), 32 (2002), 210-217
Laity,
P. The British Peace Movement
1870-1914 (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001)
Articles
Larsen,
D. ‘War Pessimism in Britain and an American Peace in Early 1916’, International
History Review, 34 (2012), 795-817
Books
McCarthy,
H. The British People and the League
of Nations: Democracy, Citizenship and
Internationalism, c. 1918-45 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011)
Yearwood, P.
J. Guarantee of Peace: The League of
Nations in British Policy, 1914-1925 (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2009)
Books
Grayzel, S. R. At Home and Under Fire. Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the
Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
— ‘“A promise of Terror to Come”: Air Power and the Destruction of Cties in British
Imagination and Experience, 1908-39’, in Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and
Commemorations of Total War, edited by
S. Goebel, and D. Keene (Farnham: Ashgate,
2011)
Platt, B. ‘“Terrorizing the Fortress of London”? German
Bombings, Public Pressure, and the Creation of the British Home Defense System
in World War I’, A thesis presented in
partial fulfilment of the requirements for the
degree Master of Arts in History (unpublished masters thesis, Terre
Haute, Indiana State University, 2010) [http://hdl.handle.net/10484/959]
Articles
Sadler, J. ‘On British Soil: Hartlepool, 16 December, 1914’, Historian (Historical Association), 123 (2014), 28-31
About
the bombardment of Hartlepool by the German Navy.
Wiggam, M. ‘At Home and under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in
Britain from the Great War to the Blitz’, Contemporary British History,
27 (2013), 118-120
Books
Thacker, T. British Culture and the First World War: Experience,
Representation and Memory (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)
3.3.2 Fiction [No
updates]
3.3.4 Poetry
[No
updates]
3.4.1 General
[No
updates]
3.4.2 Popular Music
Articles
Burns, R. G. H.
‘British Folk Songs of the Great War - Then and Now’, Journal of Military
History, 79 (2015), 1059-1077
Charman, T. ‘ “… And my heart’s right there” ’, Despatches (The Magazine of the Friends of the Imperial War
Museum), No. 14 (2012), 20-22
A reflection by IWM historian, Terry Chapman,
on the popular songs of the Firsst World War.
3.4.3 ‘Serious’ Music [No
updates]
Books
Mason, T.
and E. Riedi. Sport and the
Military: The British Armed Forces, 1880–1960 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010)
3.5.2 The
Theatre [No updates]
Books
Duncan, R. Pubs and Patriots: The Drink Crisis
During World War One (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2013)
Ewing,
K. D. and C. A. Gearty. The Struggle for
Civil Liberties: Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in Britain 1914-1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Articles
Grayzel, S. R.
‘Defence Against the Indefensible: The Gas Mask, the State and British Culture
during and after the First World War’, Twentieth Century British History,
25 (2014), 418-434
Johnson, M. ‘The
Liberal War Committee and the Liberal Advocacy of Conscription in Britain,
1914-1916’, Historical Journal, 51 (2008), 399-420
Books
Cassar,
G. H. Lloyd George at War 1916-1918
(London: Anthem Press, 2009; repr. 2011)
Horn,
M. Britain, France and the Financing
of the First World War (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002)
Articles
Manton, K. ‘Sir William
Beveridge, The British Government and Plans for Food Control in Time of War, c.
1916-1941., Contemporary British History, 23 (2009), 363-385
Ewing, K. D. and C. A. Gearty. The Struggle for Civil Liberties:
Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in Britain 1914-1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
4.1.4.1
General
·
Articles
Drisceoil, D. O.
‘Keeping Disloyalty within Bounds? British Media Control in Ireland, 1914-19’ Irish
Historical Studies, 149 (2012), 52-69
Walsh, M. ‘No Peace For The Wicked: A Censored Painter
[C. R. W. Nevinson] of the Great War ‘, Index on Censorship, 32; Issue 3
(2003 ), 21-29
4.1.4.2 News Reporting
·
Articles
Finn, M. ‘Local
Heroes: War News and the Construction
of “Community” in Britain, 1914-18’, Historical Research (Oxford) 83
(2010), 520-538
Focusing
on the city of Liverpool and its environs as a case study this article argues
that a view of the trench experience, fostered both by soldiers’ correspondence
and the local press, helped to provide community-oriented narratives of combat
that contributed to making bereavement bearable, war better understood and
mobilization sutainable.
4.2.1 General
Books
Paddock,
T. R. E., ed. World War I and Propaganda (Leiden; Boston:
Brill, 2014)
Welch, D. Propaganda:
Power and Persuasion (London: British Library,
2013)
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the British Library,
London, 17 May - 17 Sept. 2013.
Welch. D., ed.
Propaganda, Power and Persuasion from World War I to Wikileaks (London: I.B. Tauris,
2014)
Welch, D. and J.
Fox, eds. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age
(Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012)
Based on
papers presented at the conference on ‘Justifying war: propaganda, politics and
the modern age’ held in Kent, 2007.
Articles
Doty, B. ‘“As a Mass, a Phenomenon so Hideous”: Crowd Psychology, Impressionism, and Ford Madox Ford’s Propaganda’, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 6 (2013), 169-182
Harker, R.
‘Propaganda: Power and Persuasion. The British Library’, Public Historian,
35 (2013), 103-107
Review of the exhibition, Propaganda: Power and Persuasion, held at the British Library, London, 17 May-17 Sept. 2013 (Jude England, Curator; Ian Cooke, Co-Curator) and of the work with the
same title by David Welch (q.v) published by the British Library to accompany
the exhibition.
Leikauf, R.
‘Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age’, Historical
Journal Of Film Radio And Television, 33 (2013), 330-332
Martin, N. ‘“Fighting a
Philosophy”: The Figure of Nietzsche in British Propaganda of the First World
War’, Modern Language Review, 98 (2003), 367-380
Strachan, H.
‘John Buchan and the First World War:
Fact into Fiction’, War in History, 16 (2009), 298-324
An
exploration of the the ways in which Buchan, a man of affairs, historian, and
propagandist as well as a novelist, exploited the inside knowledge of the facts
about the war (derived from his government activities) to write his fictions
about it both during the war and after it.
Also includes a consideration of Buchan’s thoughts about the war’s
conduct and the function of propaganda within it.
Tylee, C. M. ‘“Munitions of the Mind”: Travel Writing,
Imperial Discourse and Great War Propaganda by Mrs. Humphry Ward’, English
Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 39 (1996), 171-192
Moore, A.
‘Monuments Men and Martyred Towns: The Arras Belfry by Fernand Sabatté’, Journal
of Military History, 79 (2015), 1047-1058
“The Arras Belfry, an oil painting by the French artist Fernand
Sabatté, is held at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. It depicts the
destruction of the town’s late medieval belfry by German artillery in 1914 and
is part of a genre of First World War propaganda imagery known as the “martyred
towns” series … Artist Sabatté was a French army officer based in Arras in
Northern France where he was in charge of salvaging artworks from medieval
churches and town halls destroyed in the fighting”. [Abstract from the internet]
Neander, J. and R. Martin. ‘Media and Propaganda: The Northcliffe Press and the
Corpse Factory Story of World War I’, Global Media Journal, 3 (2010),
67-82
Books
Monger,
D. ‘Transcending the Nation: Domestic Propaganda and
Supranational Patriotism in Britain, 1917-18’, in World War
I and Propaganda, edited
by T. R. E. Paddock (Leiden; Boston:
Brill, 2014)
Monger, D. Patriotism
and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and
Civilian Morale (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2012)
Articles
Monger, D.
‘Nothing Special?: Propaganda
and Women’s Roles in Late First World War Britain, Women’s History Review,
23 (2014), 518-542
“This article explores
women’s
roles as subjects, objects and producers of National War Aims Committee
propaganda in Britain during 1917–18” (extract from an abstract on the
internet)
4.2.4.1 General
[No updates]
4.2.4.2 Courting
America; Anglo-American Relations
Books
Boghardt,
T. The Zimmermann Telegram:
Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I (Annapolis,
Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2012)
Bennett, S. H. and C. F. Howlett, eds. Antiwar Dissent and
Peace Activism in World War I America: A Documentary Reader (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014)
Carlisle, R.
P. Sovereignty at Sea: U.S. Merchant Ships and American Entry into
World War I (Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2009)
Floyd, R. Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and
the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914-December 1915 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Kennedy, R.
A. The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I and America’s
Strategy for Peace and Security (Kent,
Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009)
Controvich,
J. T. The United States in World War
I: A Bibliographic Guide (Lanham,
Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012)
Dobson, A. P. Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth
Century: Of Friendship, Conflict, and
the Rise and Decline of Superpowers (London:
Routledge, 2005)
The New
Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, 4 vols
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) III: The Globalizing of
America, 1913-1945, by Akira Iriye
Woodward, D. R. America
and World War I: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources
(London:
Routledge, 2007)
Articles
Peifer, D.
‘The Sinking of the Lusitania, Wilson’s Response, and Paths Not Taken:
Historical Revisionism, the Nye Committee, and the Ghost of William Jennings
Bryan’, Journal of Military History, 79 (2015), 1025-1046
4.2.4.3 British Propaganda Material Distributed in the USA [No
updates]
4.2.4.4 The United States Contribution to the
Propaganda Campaign [No
updates]
4.2.5 The Media
4.2.5.1 General [No updates]
4.2.5.2 Printed
Propaganda Material [No updates]
4.2.5.3
Visual Propaganda
·
Articles
Bottomore, S.
‘Charles Urban: Pioneering The Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America,
1897-1925’ Historical Journal of Film Radio And Television, 34 (2014),
276-278
Dutton, P.
‘“More Vivid than the Written Word” Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett’s film, With the
Dardanelles Expedition (1915)’, Historical Journal of Film Radio And
Television.,24 (2004), 205-222 [For information relating to this film see Byrnes, P. Gallipoli on Film in the section 4.3.2.1
of Part 4: Remembering the War]
General
·
Articles
Biernoff, S. and
J. Tynan. ‘Making and Remaking the
Civilian Soldier: The World War I
Photographs of Horace Nicholls’, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 5
(2012), 277-293
In this article it is
argued that Horace Nicholls’ photographs of wartime army recruitment and
post-war facial reconstruction represent a response to the brief from
Wellington House to record the war effort on the home front that is colured by
his artistic aspirations and his love of a good story (seeming to result in an
uneasy combination lying between photojournalism, propaganda and record
keeping).
Posters
·
Books
Fit Men Wanted: Original Posters from the Home Front, with a foreword by Nigel Steel (London:
Thames & Hudson in association with the Imperial War Museum, 2012)
Reproductions of the best (and most
forgotten after their initial use) of the Imperial War Museum's collection of
over 30,000 British Government wartime posters and proclamations, mostly from
the First and Second World Wars.
Hadley, F. and
M. Pegler. Posters of the Great War
(London; Pen & Sword, 2013)
Published in Association with
Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne, France
James, P.,
ed. Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture (Lincoln,
Neb: University of Nebraska Press, 2009)
·
Articles
Steel, N. ‘The Power of
Words’, Despatches (The Magazine of the Friends of the Imperial
War Museum), No. 15 (2012), 42-43
An examination by Nigel Steel, IWM’s Principal
Historian, of the proclamation posters used in both World Wars.
Books
Cassar, G. H.
Lloyd George at War 1916-1918 (London: Anthem Press, 2009; repr. 2011)
Dehne, P. A. On the Far Western Front: Britain’s First World War in South America
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009)
Friedman, I. British
Pan-Arab Policy, 1915-1922: A Critical Appraisal (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2010)
Miller, R., ed. Britain,
Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2010)
Millman, B. Pessimism
and British War Policy, 1916-1918 (London: Frank Cass, 2001)
Schneer, J. The
Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (London: Bloomsbury, 2011)
Cassar, G.
H. Kitchener's War: British Strategy
from 1914 to 1916 (Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 2004)
Dehne, P.
A. On the Far Western Front: Britain’s
First World War in South America (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2009)
Lambert, N. A.
Planning Armageddon:
British Economic Warfare and the First World War (Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012)
Neilson, K. and G. Kennedy, eds. The British Way in Warfare: Power and the
International System, 1856-1956. Essays in Honour of David French (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)
Prete, R.A. Strategy and
Command: The Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009)
Pattee, P.
G. At War in Distant Waters. British
Colonial Defence in the Great War (Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2014)
Townshend,
C. Desert Hell: The British Invasion
of Mesopotamia (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 2011)
Originally published as: When God Made
Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921,
London: Faber, 2010.
Articles
Greenhalgh, E.
‘David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and the 1918 Manpower Crisis’, Historical
Journal, 50 (2007), 397-422
Maiolo,
J. and T. Insall. ‘Sir Basil Zaharoff
and Sir Vincent Caillard as Instruments of British Policy towards Greece and
the Ottoman Empire during the Asquith and Lloyd George Administrations,
1915-8’, International History Review, 34 (2012), 819-839
“The
notorious arms trader Sir Basil Zaharoff is remembered as the archetypal
‘merchant of death’. During the First World War, he is alleged to have
exercised a malign influence over statesmen in London and Paris. Recently
released Foreign Office files now allow us to document Zaharoff's wartime
activities on behalf of the British government as an agent of influence in the
Levant. The new sources reveal that Sir Vincent H.P. Caillard, the financial
director of the arms-maker Vickers, played a key role in making Zaharoff's
services available to prime ministers Asquith and Lloyd George. While Zaharoff
has often been portrayed as a sinister force, manipulating statesmen into
pursuing his financial and political interests, the reality was the reverse.
Zaharoff was a convenient tool of two prime ministers rather than a powerful
political manipulator in his own right.”
[Abstract on the internet]
Martin, C. ‘The Complexity of Strategy: `”Jackie'” Fisher and the
Trouble with Submarines’, Journal of Military History, 75 (2011),
441-470
Varnava, A. ‘Imperialism First, the War Second: The British, an Armenian Legion, and Deliberations on Where to Attack the Ottoman Empire, November
1914-April 1915’, Historical
Research (Oxford),
87
(2014), 533-555
Books
Beach, J. Haig’s Intelligence GHQ and the German Army,
1916-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013)
Blum, H. Dark Invasion, 1915:
Germany’s Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in
America (Melbourne; London: Scribe 2014)
Also published under the title Dark
Invasion: The Secret War against the Kaiser’s Spies
Boghardt, T. The
Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World
War I (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2012)
King, M. Secrets in a
Dead Fish: The Spying Game in the First World War (Oxford: Bodleian Library 2014)
McMahon, P. British
Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008)
Oliver, D. Airborne Espionage: International Special
Duties Operations in the World Wars (Stroud: Sutton,
2005)
Articles
Beach, J.
‘“Intelligent Civilians in Uniform”: The British Expeditionary Force’s
Intelligence Corps Officers, 1914-1918’, War and Society, 27, Issue 1
(2008), 1-22
—
‘British Intelligence and German Tanks, 1916-1918’, War in History, 14
(2007), 454-475
Heffernan, M. ‘Geography, Cartography and Military
Intelligence: The Royal Geographical Society and the First World War’, Transactions
of the Institute of British Geographers, n.s. 21 (1996), 504-533
Larsen, D. ‘Spying on Your Friends: Breaking American Codes in the First World
War’, The Fountain (Trinity College Cambridge), Issue 19 (2014), 4-5
Describes
the code-breaking activities of the naval group known as Room 40 and a lesser
known army orgaganization called MI1(b).
Dwells particularly on the activities of MI1(b) in its breaking of the
diplomatic codes of the United States.
Winkler, J. R.
'Information Warfare in World War I’, Journal of Military History, 73
(2009), 845-868
Emsley, C. Soldier,
Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the
British Armed Services since 1914 (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2013)
Connelly,
M. Steady the Buffs!: A Regiment, a
Region and the Great War, Oxford Scholarship Online (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
Mallinson. A. 1914: Fight
the Good Fight: Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War (London: Bantam Press, 2013)
Marble, S. British
Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War: “The Infantry Cannot Do With A Gun Less” (Farnham:: Ashgate 2013}
Mason,
T. and E. Riedi. Sport and the
Military: The British Armed Forces, 1880–1960 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Mayhew, E. Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013)
Morton-Jack, G. The Indian Army on the Western Front:
India’s Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium in the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 2013)
Prete, R.A. Strategy and Command: The
Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009)
Roy, K. The Indian Army in the Two
World Wars (Boston: Brill, 2012)
Seal, G. The
Soldiers’ Press: Trench Journals in the
First World War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Tynan, J. British Army
Uniform and the First World War: Men in
Khaki (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan 2013)
Yockelson, M. A. Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918
(Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press 2008?)
Articles
Boff, J.
‘Combined Arms during the Hundred Days Campaign, August-November 1918’, War
in History, 17 (2010), 459-478
Constantine, S. ‘“If an inhabitant attacks, wounds or kills a
soldier, the whole village will be destroyed”. Communication and Rehearsal in
Soldiers’ Phrasebooks 1914-1918’, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 6
(2013), 154-168
Feltman, B. K.
‘Tolerance As a Crime? The British Treatment of German Prisoners of War on the
Western Front, 1914-1918', War in History, 17 (2010), 435-458
Harris, P. and S. Marble.
‘‘The “Step-by-Step” Approach: British Military Thought and Operational
Method on the Western Front, 1915-1917’, War in History, 15 (2008),
17-42
Jack, G. M. ‘The Indian Army on the Western Front, 1914-1915: A
Portrait of Collaboration’, War in History, 13 (2006), 329-362
Jenkinson, J. ‘“All in the Same Uniform?” The Participation
of Black Colonial Residents in the British Armed Forces in the First World
War’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40, (2012),
207-230
Phillips, C. ‘Not Your Typical Soldier, Not Your Typical Service:
Sir Francis Dent and the First World War’, Historian (Historical
Association), 122 (2014), 28-31
Phillips, G. ‘Black Beauties of the Western Front’, History
Today, 62, Issue 1 (2012), 5-6
About the horses and mules employed by the
British army during the First World War
Merrick, P.
‘Horses for the Great War’, Local Historian (British
Association for Local History), 44 (2014), 221-242
Ugolini, L. ‘War-stained: British Combatants and Uniforms, 1914-18’,
War and Society (Duntroon Australia), 33 (2014), 155-171
Wild, J. ‘“A Merciful, Heaven-Sent Release”?: The Clerk and The First World War in British Literary Culture’, Cultural And Social History, 4 (2007), 73-94
An exploration of the experience of the Great
War by the large number of British office workers who
enlisted in the armed forces and the effect which, it is argued, this had on
shaping a more democratic postwar society as was evidenced by the figure of the
fictional clerk that emerges in British literature after 1918.
Wilkinson, R. ‘Lloyd
George and the Generals’, History Review, 61 (2008), 31-36
About the fractious
relations between Lloyd George and the generals during the Great War
Books
McConnel, J.
‘Recruiting Sergeants for John Bull? Irish Nationalist MPs and Enlistment
during the Early Months of the Great War’, War In History, 14 (2007),
408-428
Articles
Johnson, M. ‘The
Liberal War Committee and the Liberal Advocacy of Conscription in Britain, 1914-1916’,
Historical Journal, 51 (2008), 399-420
Books
Gibson, C. Behind the
Front: British Soldiers and French
Civilians, 1914-1918 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Oram, G. Military Executions during World War I (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Articles
Fletcher, A.
‘Between the Lines: First World War
Correspondence’, History Today, 5, Issue 11 (2009), 45-51
A consideration of what soldiers’ letters home reveal about their
inner lives. By helping to make life in
the trenches more bearable these letters provided siome emotional
solace and contributed to the maintenance of morale.
Duffett, R. The Stomach for Fighting:
Food and the Soldiers of the Great War (Manchester:: Manchester University Press 2012
Gibson, C. Behind the Front: British Soldiers and French Civilians,
1914-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2014)
Merridale, C.,
ed. Culture and Combat Motivation (London: Sage,
2006)
Special
issue of Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 41, no.2, April 2006
Roper, M. The Secret Battle: Emotional
Survival in the Great War (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2010)
Seal, G. The Soldiers’ Press: Trench Journals in the First World War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2013)
Wilson, R. J.. Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality during the Great War (London: Routledge, 2011)
Articles
Bourke, J. ‘The Emotions
in War: Fear and the British and American military, 1914-45’, Historical
Research (Oxford), 74 (2001), 314-330
Brown, M.
‘“Somewhere in France”’, History Today, 56, Issue 7 (2006), 22-24
In welcoming a new publication of the collected numbers of The Wipers
Times, Malcolm Brown wonders why we find the idea of humour in the trenches so
shocking
Duffett, R. ‘Beyond the Ration: Sharing and Scrounging on the Western
Front’, Twentieth Century British History, 22, (2011), 453-473
Feltman, B. K. ‘Tolerance As a Crime? The British Treatment of
German Prisoners of War on the Western Front, 1914-1918', War in History,
17 (2010), 435-458
Fletcher, A. ‘Between the Lines:
First World War Correspondence’, History Today, 5, Issue 11
(2009), 45-51
A consideration of what
soldiers’ letters home reveal about their inner lives. By helping to make life in the trenches more
bearable these letters provided siome emotional solace and
contributed to the maintenance of morale.
Jones, E. ‘The
Psychology of Killing: The Combat Experience of British Soldiers during the
First World War’, Journal of Contemporary History, 41 (2006),
229-246
Munslow, A.
'Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality during the Great War', Rethinking
History, Special Issue: Historical Justice, 18, (2014), 304-308
Roper, M.
‘Nostalgia as an Emotional Experience in the Great War’, Historical Journal ,
54 (2011), 421-452
Watson, A. and
P. Porter. ‘Bereaved and Aggrieved: Combat Motivation and the Ideology of
Sacrifice in the First World War’, Historical Research, 83 (2010), 146-164
Wilson, R. ‘The Burial of the Dead: The British Army on the
Western Front, 1914-18’, War and Society (Duntroon Australia), 31
(2012), 22-41
An examination of the development of a ‘war culture’ within
the British Army in relation to the response of soldiers to death and burial on
the Western Front.
Ball, T. ‘When This Bloody War is Over: The Northumberland
Fusiliers in 1918’, Journal of the Society For Army Historical Research,
91 (2013), 24-59
Barton, P. and
others. Beneath Flanders Fields: The
Tunneller’s War, 1914-18, by Peter Barton, Peter Doyle and Johan
Vanderwalle (Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2004; repr. in paperback 2006)
Blair,
D. The Battle of Bellicourt Tunnel:
Tommies, Diggers and Doughboys on the Hindenburg Line, 1918 (London:
Frontline Books, 2011)
Boff. J. ‘Combined Arms during the Hundred Days Campaign, August-November 1918’,
War in History, 17 (2010), 459-478
— Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The British
Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2012)
An examination of how the
opposing armies fought during the ‘Hundred Days’ campaign and an assessment of
how far the British Army’s application of adaptation to the changing nature of
modern warfare provided the basis for this army's part in the Allied victory.
Bond, B. ed. Liddell Hart’s Western Front: Impressions of the Battle of the Somme, with war letters, diary and occasional notes
written on active service in France and Flanders 1915 and 1916, limited edn (Brighton: Tom Donovan, 2010)
Bechthold, M.
‘Command, Leadership, and Doctrine on the Great War Battlefield: The
Australian, British, and Canadian Experience at the Battle of Arras, May 1917’,
War and Society, 32 (2013), 116-137
Bridge, C.
‘Australia’s Gallipoli, 1915:
Myths and Realities’, Historian, 125 (2015), 34-37
Cassar G. H.
Trial by Gas: The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books 2014)
Clayton, A. Martin-Leake: Double VC (London: Leo Cooper 1994)
Corrigan, G. Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian
Corps on the Western Front, 1914-15 (Staplehurst: Spellmount, 1999)
Doherty, S. and
T. Donovan. The Indian Corps on the
Western Front: A Handbook and Battlefield Guide (Brighton: Tom Donovan Editions, 2014)
Duffy, C. Through German Eyes: The British
and the Somme (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006)
Hammond, B. Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First
Great Tank Battle (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)
Harris, P. and
S. Marble. ‘The “Step-by-Step'”
Approach: British Military Thought and Operational Method on the Western Front,
1915-1917’, War in History, 15 (2008), 17-42
Hart, P. 1918: A Very British Victory (London: Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 2008)
Herwig, H.
H. The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle
That Changed the World (New York: Random House, 2009; repr. in paperback
2011)
Hudson, R.
‘Ypres Cloth Hall Bombarded, History Today, 65, Issue 1 (2015), 36-37
An examination of a 1915 photograph of the
medieval Cloth Hall in the Belgian city of Ypres following heavy German
shelling, together with details of the Ypres battles and a brief history of the
Cloth Hall and Ypres.
Jankowski, P. Verdun: The Longest Battle of the
Great War (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013)
Lloyd, N. Hundred Days: The Campaign that Ended
World War I (New York: Basic Books 2014)
— ‘The Imperial
Triumph of Amiens’, History Today, 64, Issue 5 (2014), 72
Nick
Lloyd revisits John Terraine’s ground-breaking 1958 article on the decisive,
though neglected, Allied victory at Amiens in 1918
Mace, M. and J. Grehan. Slaughter
on the Somme, 1 July 1916: The Complete
War Diaries of the British Army’s Worst Day (London: Pen & Sword, 2013)
In this work
are gathered together, for the first time ever, all the War Diary entries for
those battalions that were enagaged in the battle on that day.
Marble, S. .British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War: “The Infantry Cannot Do With A Gun Less” (Farnham:: Ashgate 2013)
Morton-Jack, G. The Indian Army on the Western Front:
India’s Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium in the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 2013)
Neiberg, M. S. The Second Battle of the Marne (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2008)
Mosier, J. Verdun: The Lost History of the Most
Important Battle of World War I, 1914-1918 (New York: Penguin Group, 2013)
Philpott,
W. Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
(New York: Alfred. A. Knopf, 2010)
Prete, R.A. Strategy and Command: The
Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009)
Sharpe, A. ‘The Battle of Neuve Chappelle & the
Indian Corps, Andrew Sharpe describes a neglected 1915 battle over the “most
dismal, swampy and disgusting region of the British Front”’, History Today,
65, Number 8 (2015), 46-50
Stevenson,
D. With Our Backs to the Wall:
Victory and Defeat in 1918 (London: Allen
Lane, 2011; repr. London: Penguin, 2012)
Van Hartesveldt, F. R. The Battles of
the British Expeditionary Forces, 1914-1915: Historiography and Annotated
Bibliography (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005)
Ward, C.
Living on the Western Front: Annals and Stories,
1914-1919 (London;
New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2013)
, W. and G. Whittaker. Somewhere in France: A Tommy’s Guide
to Life on the Western Front (Stroud: Amberley Publishing,
2014)
By means of the letters of William
Whittaker, a soldier in the Great War, and family anecdotes Geoffrey Whittaker,
his son, re-creates the world of the Tommy in the trenches.
Williamson, W. A Tommy at Ypres: Walter’s War, the
diary and letters of Walter Williamson Williamson compiled by Doreen Priddey
(Stroud: Amberley 2013)
Originally published: 2011
Ward, C. Living on the Western Front: Annals and
Stories 1914-1919 (London:
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)
Italian Front
Thompson, M. The White War: Life and Death on
the Italian Front 1915-1919 (London: Faber, 2009)
Macedonian
Front
Hall, R. C. Balkan Breakthrough: The Battle of Dobro
Pole 1918 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010)
Gallipoli Expedition
Bridge, C. ‘Australia’s Gallipoli, 1915: Myths And Realities’, Historian, 125
(2015), 34-37
Clews,
T. Churchill's Dilemma: The Real
Story behind the Origins of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign (Santa
Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2010)
Crawley, C. Climax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the
August Offensive (Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press 2014)
Dutton, P.
‘“More Vivid than the Written Word” Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett’s film, With the
Dardanelles Expedition (1915)’, Historical Journal of Film Radio And
Television.,24 (2004), 205-222 [For information relating to this film see Byrnes, P. Gallipoli on Film in the section 4.3.2.1
of Part 4: Remembering the War]
Emden, R. van and S. Chambers Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in
Soldiers’ Words and Photographs (London: Bloomsbury 2015)
Erickson., E. J.
Gallipoli: The Ottoman Campaign (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2010)
Hart, P. Gallipoli (London: Profile Books 2013)
Macleod, J. Gallipoli, Great Battles (Oxford: Oxford
University Press 2015)
— Reconsidering
Gallipoli (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2004)
Macleod, J., ed.
Gallipoli: Making History (London:
F. Cass 2004)
Prior, R. Gallipoli: The End of the Myth (Sydney,
N.S.W.: UNSW Press, 2009)
Ruddeno, V. Gallipoli: Attack from the Sea (Sydney:
University of New South Wales Press, 2008)
The Middle East and
Palestinian Front
Allen, J. J. T. E. Lawrence and the Red Sea
Patrol: The Royal Navy’s Role in Creating the Legend (London: Pen &
Sword Military, 2015)
Bar-Yosef, E. ‘The Last Crusade? British Propaganda
and the Palestine Campaign, 1917-18’, Journal of Contemporary History,
36 (2001), 87-110
Brown, M. T. E. Lawrence (London:
British Library 2003)
Ford, R. Eden
to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East (London:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009)
Grainger, J.
D. The Battle for Palestine, 1917
(Woodbridge, UK; Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2006)
Kitchen,
J. E. The British Imperial Army in
the Middle East: Morale and Military Identity in the Sinai and Palestine
Campaigns, 1916-1918 (London: Bloomsbury, 2014)
Rogan,
E. The Fall of the Ottomans: The
Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 (London: Allen
Lane, 2015)
Sheffy, Y. ‘Chemical Warfare and the Palestine Campaign,
1916-1918’, Journal of Military History, 73 (2009), 803-844
Ulrichsen,
K. C. The First World War in the
Middle East (London: Hurst, 2014)
Woodfin,
E. C. Camp and Combat on the Sinai
and Palestine Front: The Experience of the British Empire Soldier, 1916-1918
(Houndmills, Basingstoke,: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012)
Woodward, D. R. Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East ( Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 2006)
Townshend, C. Desert
Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 2011)
Originally
published as: When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and
the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921, London : Faber, 2010.
Colonial and other Campaigns and Expeditions
Stapleton, T.
J. No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East
Africa Campaign of the First World War (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, 2006)
The
following selection of works are representative of the personal experiences
expressed in the books, diaries, letters, and journals written by soldiers
during the war (some of which were not published until after the war had
ended). A selection of works
representative of personal experiences viewed in retrospect (i.e. written after
the war) will be found in the section 4.2.2 of Part 4 (Remembering the War)
Maultsaid, J. A. B. Star Shell Reflections, 1914-1916: The Great War Diaries of Jim Maultsaid, [edited by] B. A. McClune (London: Pen
& Sword, 2015)
Simpkin, A. Despatch Rider on the Western Front,
1915-18: The Diary of Sergeant Albert
Simpkin MM, edited by David Venner (London: Pen & Sword, 2015)
Allen, J. J.
T. E. Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol: The Royal Navy’s Role in Creating the Legend (London: Pen & Sword Military, 2015
Ben-Yehuda, N. Atrocity,
Deviance, and Submarine Warfare: Norms
and Practices during the World Wars (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan
Press, 2013)
Black.
N. The British Naval Staff in the
First World War (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2009)
Butler, D. A.. Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland
and the Allied Triumph in the First World War (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006)
Conley, M. From
Jack Tar to Union Jack: Representing
Naval Manhood in the British Empire (Manchester; Manchester University Press, 2009)
Davison, R. L. The Challenges of Command: The Royal
Navy’s Executive Branch Officers, 1880-1919 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)
Friedman, N. Fighting
the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology (Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2014)
Pattee, P. G. At War in
Distant Waters. British Colonial Defence in the Great War (Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2014)
Philpott, M Air and Sea
Power in World War I: Combat Experience
in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012)
Redford, D. and P. D. Grove. The
Royal Navy : A History since 1900 (London: I.B. Tauris 2014)
Rose, L. A. Power at
Sea, 3 vols (Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 2007), III: The Age of
Navalism, 1890-1918
Sondhaus, L. The Great
War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War (Cambridge University
Press, 2014)
Till, G.
The Development
of British Naval Thinking: Essays in
Memory of Bryan Ranft (London: Routledge, 2006)
Articles
Martin, C. ‘The Complexity of Strategy: “Jackie'” Fisher and the
Trouble with Submarines’, Journal of Military History, 75 (2011),
441-470
Autobiographies
and Biographies
Grinnell-Milne,
D. Wind in the Wires (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1933;
repr. London: Grub Street,
2014)
Memoir of a British pilot about his experiences of flying in the First World War
Books
Bennett, L. Gunning for the Red Baron (College Station, Texas: Texas
A and M University Press, 2006)
Oliver, D. Airborne Espionage: International Special
Duties Operations in the World Wars (Stroud: Sutton, 2005)
Philpott, M Air and Sea Power in World War I: Combat Experience in the Royal Flying Corps
and the Royal Navy (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012)
Platt, B. ‘“Terrorizing the Fortress of London”?
German Bombings, Public Pressure, and the Creation of the British Home Defense
System in World War I’, A thesis
presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of
Arts in History (unpublished masters thesis, Terre Haute, Indiana State University,
2010) [http://hdl.handle.net/10484/959]
Articles
Holman, B. ‘The
Shadow of the Airliner: Commercial
Bombers and the Rhetorical Destruction of Britain, 1917-35’, Twentieth
Century British History, 24, (2013), 495-517
Articles
Fara, P. ‘A Social Laboratory: The First World War Provided
Unprecedented Opportunities for Scientists, Especially Women’, History Today,
64 (2014), 43
Juniper, D. ‘The First World War and Radio Development’, History
Today, 54; Issue 5 (2004), 32-41
Sheffy, Y.
‘Chemical Warfare and the Palestine Campaign, 1916-1918’, Journal of
Military History, 73 (2009), 803-844
Autobiographies, Biographies, Diaries
Owens, H. A Doctor on the
Western Front; The Diary of Henry Owens,
edited by John Hutton (London: Pen
& Sword, 2013)
Books
Bergen, L. van.
Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine
on the Western Front (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009)
Translation of book originally published in Dutch as: Zacht en eervol : lijden ensterven in een Grote Oorlog. Antwerp, 1999.
Harrison,
M. The Medical War: British Military
Medicine in the First World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Leese,
P. Shell Shock:
Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
Mayhew, E. Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013)
Articles
Bourke, J. ‘The
Emotions in War: Fear and the British and American military, 1914-45’, Historical
Research (Oxford), 74 (2001), 314-330
Brosnan,
M. ‘Saving Lives: Frontline Medicine in a Century of
Conflict’, Despatches (The Magazine of the Friends of the Imperial War
Museum), No. 15 (2012), 12-16
The author provides an insight into an
exhibition which explores war and medicine from the First World War to the
conflict in Afghanistan. This
exhibition was mounted at IWM North in March 2012 and ran until 1 September
2013.
Hartley,
P. ‘Change Me: Facial Injuries in the First World War’, History
Today, 58, Issue 3 (2008), 70-71
Humphries,
M.O. and K. Kurchinski. ‘Rest, Relax and Get Well: A
Re-Conceptualisation of Great War Shell Shock Treatment’, War and Society
(Duntroon Australia), 27, Issue 2 (2008), 89-110
Macmillan, A.
‘1917: Queries Regarding The Royal Army
Medical Corps and its Predecessors’, Journal of the Society for Army
Historical Research, 90, NUMB 362 (2012), 125
Reid, F. Distinguishing between Shell-shocked
Veterans and Pauper Lunatics: The Ex-Services’ Welfare Society and Mentally
Wounded Veterans after the Great War’, War in History, 14 (2007),
347-371
Simpson, D.
‘Brain Wounds in the First World War:
Lessons from the Steel Thunderstorms’, War and Society (Duntroon
Australia) 23 (2005), 53-58
Barham. P. Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2004)
A history of the thousands of
rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties, and put into lunatic
asylums.
Cohrs, P. O.
The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain, and the
Stabilisation of Europe, 1919-1932
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Beckett, I. F. W. The
Making of the First World War (New Haven, Conn.;
London: Yale University Press 2012)
This global perspective of
the Great War provides a revision and expansion of our perception of the legacy
of the war
Cohen, D. The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in
Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2001)
Grayzel, S.
R. ‘“A promise of Terror to Come”: Air Power and the Destruction of Cties in
British Imagination and Experience, 1908-39’, in Cities into
Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios,
Experiences and Commemorations of Total War, edited by S. Goebel, and D. Keene (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)
Grogan, S. Shell Shocked Britain: The First World
War’s Legacy for Britain’s Mental Health (London: Pen
& Sword, 2014)
Hendley, M. C. Organized Patriotism and the
Crucible of War: Popular Imperialism in
Britain, 1914-1932 (Montréal, Québec: McGill-Queen’s University
Press, 2012)
In this book’s comparison of how three
major patriotic organizations founded between 1901 and 1902 (the National Service League, the League of
the Empire, and the Victoria League) fared during the war the author shows
that the National Service League, with its strongly masculinist and
militaristic character, failed to flourish in wartime whereas the League of the
Empire and the Victoria League, strongly female in their membership and with
aims and concepts related to education and hospitality, family, home and
kinship, prospered not only during the war but beyond into the 1920’s. The
author sees this as an indication of how the traumatic nature of the Great War
produced a fundamental reshaping of popular patriotism and imperialism that is
evident to the author in his comparison of the post-war histories of the above
organizations. This book affords
an insight into women’s roles in Britain during the height of popular imperialism.
Holman, B. The Next War in the Air: Britain’s Fear
of the Bomber, 1908-1941(Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited 2014)
Jalland,
P. Death in War and Peace: A History
of Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970 (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2010)
Kent, S. K. Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in
Britain, 1918-1931 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Kettenacker, L. and T. Riotte, eds. The Legacies of Two World Wars: European Societies in the Twentieth Century
(New York: Berghahn Books, 2011)
Keynes, J.
M. The Economic Consequences of the Peace, The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes,
vol 2 (London: Macmillan; St. Martin's Press, for the
Royal Economic Society, 1971)
Lentin, A. General
Smuts, South Africa: The Peace Conferences of 1919-23
and their Aftermath (London: Haus Publishing 2010)
Mulligan, W. The Great War for
Peace (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014)
In this book the author refutes the view that the Great War
and its immediate aftermath had a disastrous effect on the rest of the 20th
century and takes the unconventional line that the first two decades of the
century - and the Great War in particular - played an important role in
assisting the development of a peaceful new order on a global scale.
Reynolds, D.
The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century (London: Simon & Schuster, 2013
Seldon, A. and D.
Walsh. Public Schools and the Great War: The Generation
Lost (Barnsley:
Pen & Sword Military 2013)
Winter, J. M.,
ed. The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years On (Columbia: Kansas City, Mo.:
University of Missouri Press; National World War I Museum, 2009)
Articles
Biernoff, S. and
J. Tynan. ‘Making and Remaking the
Civilian Soldier: The World War I
Photographs of Horace Nicholls’, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 5
(2012), 277-293
In this article it is argued that Horace Nicholls’ photographs of wartime army recruitment and post-war facial reconstruction represent a response to the brief from Wellington House to record the war effort on the home front that is colured by his artistic aspirations and his love of a good story (seeming to result in an uneasy combination lying between photojournalism, propaganda and record keeping.
Davis, B. ‘Experience, Identity, and Memory: The Legacy of World
War I’, Journal of Modern History, 75 (2003), 111-131
Review article
Grayzel, S. R.
‘Defence Against the Indefensible: The Gas Mask, the State and British Culture
during and after the First World War’, Twentieth Century British History,
25 (2014), 418-434
Janes, D.
‘Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury Queerness and John Maynard Keynes’ The Economic
Consequences of the Peace (1919)’, Literature and History, 23 (2014),
19-32
Pugh, M. ‘A
Nationalism Born of the Great War’, History Today, 64, Issue 7 (2014),
6-7
This article relates to the impact of the war on Scottish society.
Rubery,
M. ‘From Shell Shock to Shellac: The Great War, Blindness, and Britain’s
Talking Book Library, Twentieth Century British History, 26:1 (2015),
1-25
Wild, J. ‘“A Merciful, Heaven-Sent Release”?: The Clerk and The First World War in British Literary Culture’, Cultural And Social History, 4 (2007), 73-94
An exploration of the experience of the Great War by the large number of British office workers who enlisted in the armed forces and the effect which, it is argued, this had on shaping a more democratic postwar society as was evidenced by the figure of the fictional clerk that emerges in British literature after 1918.
Witt,
S. ‘International Mind Alcoves: The
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Libraries, and the Struggle for
Global Public Opinion, 1917–54’, Library & Information History, 30
(2014), 273-290
Articles
Grayzel, S. R.
‘Defence Against the Indefensible: The Gas Mask, the State and British Culture
during and after the First World War’, Twentieth Century British History,
25 (2014), 418-434
Books
Ball,
S. Portrait of a Party: The
Conservative Party in Britain 1918-1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013)
Gottlieb,
J. V. and R. Toye, eds. The
Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender,
and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945 (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2013)
Articles
Binard, F. ‘“The
Injustice of the Woman’s Vote”: Opposition to Female Suffrage after World War
I’, Womens History Review, 2014), 381-400
Special Issue: Feminism and Feminists after Suffrage.
Lawrence, J. ‘The Transformation of
British Public Politics After the First World War’, Past and Present, 190 (2006), 185-216
Ward, P. ‘Women
of Britain Say Go: Women’s Patriotism in the First World War’, Twentieth
Century British History, 12 (2001), 23-45
The author examines the patriotic activities of some
aristocratic and middle-class women in Great War and notes that these had
repercussions on postwar politics
Books
Bland, L. Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the
Flapper (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013)
Carden-Coyne, A., ed. Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Collins, M. Modern Love: An Intimate History of Men and Women in Britain,
1900–2000 (London: Atlantic, 2003)
Doan, L.
Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women’s Experience of
Modern War (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Gottlieb, J. V. and R. Toye, eds. The Aftermath of Suffrage:
Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945 (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Hendley, M. C. Organized Patriotism and the
Crucible of War: Popular Imperialism in
Britain, 1914-1932 (Montréal, Québec: McGill-Queen’s University
Press, 2012)
In this book’s comparison of how three
major patriotic organizations founded between 1901 and 1902 (the National Service League, the League of
the Empire, and the Victoria League) fared during the war the author shows
that the National Service League, with its strongly masculinist and
militaristic character, failed to flourish in wartime whereas the League of the
Empire and the Victoria League, strongly female in their membership and with
aims and concepts related to education and hospitality, family, home and
kinship, prospered not only during the war but beyond into the 1920’s. The
author sees this as an indication of how the traumatic nature of the Great War
produced a fundamental reshaping of popular patriotism and imperialism that is
evident to the author in his comparison of the post-war histories of the above
organizations. This book affords
an insight into women’s roles in Britain during the height of popular
imperialism.
Smith, A. Discourses
Surrounding British Widows of the First World War (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)
Articles
Binard, F. ‘“The
Injustice of the Woman’s Vote”: Opposition to Female Suffrage after World War
I’, Womens History Review, 2014), 381-400
Special Issue: Feminism and Feminists after Suffrage
Gottlieb, J. V. ‘“The Women’s Movement Took the Wrong Turning”:
British Feminists, Pacifism And the Politics of Appeasement’, Womens History
Review, 23 (2014), 441-462
Special Issue: Feminism and Feminists after Suffrage.
McCarthy, H.
‘Pacifism and Feminism in the Great War’, History Today, 65, Issue 4
(2015), 4
Barham. P. Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2004)
A history of the thousands of
rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties, and put into lunatic
asylums.
Black, J. The
Great War and the Making of the Modern World (London: Continuum, 2011)
Calder, A. Disasters
and Heroes: On War, Memory and Representation (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004)
Carden-Coyne, A., ed. Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Emsley, C. Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since
1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2013)
Ferguson, N., ed Virtual
History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (London: Picador, 1997;
repr. London: Penguin, 2011)
Contains a chapter by Niall Ferguson
entitled ‘Kaiser’s European Union’: what if Britain had “stood aside” in August
1914?
Grayzel, S.
R. ‘“A promise of Terror to Come”: Air Power and the
Destruction of Cties in British Imagination and Experience, 1908-39’, in Cities into
Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios,
Experiences and Commemorations of Total War, edited by S. Goebel, and D. Keene (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)
Grogan, S. Shell Shocked Britain: The First World
War’s Legacy for Britain’s Mental Health (London: Pen
& Sword, 2014)
Holman, B. The Next War in the Air: Britain’s Fear
of the Bomber, 1908-1941(Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited 2014)
Jalland,
P. Death in War and Peace: A History
of Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970 (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2010)
Frantzen, A. J.
Bloody Good. Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War (Chicago, Ill: University of
Chicago Press, 2004)
Lentin, A. General Smuts, South Africa: The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and their Aftermath (London: Haus Publishing 2010)
Keynes, J. M.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace, The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, vol 2 (London: Macmillan; St. Martin's Press, for the
Royal Economic Society, 1971)
Smith, A. Discourses
Surrounding British Widows of the First World War (London: Bloomsbury Academic,
2013)
Seldon, A. and D. Walsh. Public Schools and the
Great War: The Generation Lost (Barnsley:
Pen & Sword Military 2013)
Taylor, D. Memory, Narrative and the Great War: Rifleman
Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience (Liverpool Liverpool University
Press 2013)
Tombs, R. and E.
Chabal. Britain and France in Two World Wars: Truth, Myth
and Memory (London: Bloomsbury
Publishing, 2013)
Williams, D. Media, Memory and the First World
War
(Montreal; Ithaca, NY:
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009)
Winter, J. M., ed. The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years On
(Columbia:
Kansas City, Mo.: University of
Missouri Press; National World War I Museum, 2009)
Articles
Carr, R.
‘Conservative Veteran M.P.s and the Lost Generation Narrative after the First
World War’, Historical Research (Oxford) 85 (2012), 284-305
“Using veterans of the First World War who became
Conservative party M.P.s after 1918, this article re-examines the way the
conflict was interpreted in post-1918 Britain. Pointing to the substantial
numbers of men who fulfilled the above criteria (and how they used the conflict
to reach such office) it illustrates one way in which the war was already being
used as a significant political device before the more famous authors like
Robert Graves began to bend the event to their narrative will from 1929. This
had two important consequences: the Conservative party was given a greater
‘national’ appeal by proxy; and a somewhat simplified account of the war
experience began to be forwarded, albeit not without some contestation and
contradiction, earlier than we might think.”
[Abstract from the internet]
Cooper, S.
‘Taking Sides on the Great War’, History Today, 64 (2014 ), 19-23
An historiographical survey of the debate among British historians over the last hundred years.
Davis, B. ‘Experience, Identity, and Memory: The Legacy of World
War I’, Journal of Modern History, 75 (2003), 111-131
Review article
England,
P. ‘Remembering the First World War:
Touched From a Distance’, History Today, 61, Issue 11 (2011), 3
The
author considers the ways we remember and how historians may write about the
Greart War with the passing of the last veterans of it..
Fletcher, A.
‘Patriotism, the Great War and the Decline of Victorian Manliness’, History,
99, (2014), 40-72
Francis, M.
‘Attending to Ghosts: Some Reflections on the Disavowals of British Great War
Historiography’, Twentieth Century British History, 25 (2014), 347-367
Goebel, S.
‘Intersecting Memories: War and
Remembrance in Twentieth-Century Europe’, Historical Journal, 44 (2001),
853-858
Hastings, M. and
Ferguson, N. ‘Was it Worth It?, Radio
Times, 22-28 February (2014), 14-19
The authors present their opposite views on the case for Britain
entering the Great War.
Heathorn, S.
‘The Mnemonic Turn in the Cultural Historiography of Britain’s Great War’, Historical
Journal, 48 (2005), 1103-1124
IWM (Imperial War
Museums) Friends. ‘First World War
Centenary Special Edition’, Despatches, Number 18 (2014)
Irish, T.
‘Fractured Families: Educated Elites In Britain and France and the Challenge of
the Great War’, Historical Journal, 57, (2014), 509-530
Janes, D. ‘Eminent
Victorians, Bloomsbury Queerness and John Maynard Keynes’ The Economic
Consequences of the Peace (1919)’, Literature and History, 23 (2014),
19-32
Monaghan, S.
‘Whose Country, Whose Soldiers, Whose Responsibility? First World War Ex-Servicemen
and the Development of the Irish Free State, 1923-1939’, Contemporary
European History, 23(2014), 75-94
Peifer, D. C.
‘The Past in the Present: Passion, Politics, and the Historical Profession in
the German and British Pardon Campaigns’, Journal of Military History,
71 (2007), 1107-1132
Quinn, B., and
others. ‘First World War: How Countries Across Europe Will Mark Centenary’, The
Guardian, Thursday 16 January 2014
[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/first-world-war-europe-centenary]
Reid, F. Distinguishing between Shell-shocked
Veterans and Pauper Lunatics: The Ex-Services’ Welfare Society and Mentally
Wounded Veterans after the Great War’, War in History, 14 (2007),
347-371
Roper, M.
‘Re-Remembering the Soldier Hero:
The Psychic and Social Construction of Memory in Personal Narratives of
the Great War’, History Workshop
Journal, 50 (2000), 181-204
Sheffield,
G. ‘The Centenary of the First World
War: An Unpopular View’, Historian (Historical Association), 122 (2014),
20-27
“Unpopular as it undoubtedly is to
say so, between 1914 and 1918 Britain fought a defensive, just war” (the
concluding sentence of the article).
— ‘The Great War was a Just War’, History Today, 63, Issue 8
(2013), 6
Gary Sheffield argues that Britain was right to take up arms
against Germany in 1914.
Numerous
websites were inaugurated in 2014 to commemorate the centenary of the First
World War. Among them were:
Baker, C. The Long, Long Trail [http://1914-1918.net/]
“A truly vast
resource based on decades of research, the Long, Long Trail provides a
detailed account of the structure, organization and regulations which shaped
the British Army, the battles across the globe in which it fought, and a
comprehensive guide to genealogists and researchers on how best to find and
interpret the official records generated during the conflict. In addition, the
website provides transcripts of items such as the despatches written by
successive commanders-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, Sir John
French and Sir Douglas Haig, an impressive – but by no means comprehensive –
selection of campaign maps digitised from various sources, and a colossal and
knowledgeable forum boasting over 44,000 members. For anyone
requiring further information on any aspect of the British Army in the First
World War, the website is unsurpassed in terms of the quantity and quality of
information available”. [Quotations extracted from Philips, C. Review of First World War Digital
Resources, q.v.]
BBC. History. World War One [http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1]
“The
BBC has … enlisted the support of senior academics, alongside the more
instantly recognisable faces of journalists and presenters …. Linked to the
iPlayer service, and utilizing a combination of audio, visual and textual
resources, the BBC have created a website with a broad range of materials aimed
at both the relative novice and the more informed viewer … The
centrepiece, a series of articles under the banner of World War I at Home …
concentrates upon the presentation of ‘local stories from a global
conflict’”. [Quotations extracted from Philips, C. Review of First World War Digital
Resources, q.v.]
— World War One
at Home [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nhwgx]
The BBC has partnered with Imperial War Museums and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. to produce this growing collection of stories that show how WW1 affected the people and places of the UK and Ireland.
— WW1 Interactive Guide [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/ww1/25768752]
Presented by historians (such as Gary
Sheffield), television presenters (Gareth Malone, Matt Baker) and BBC
journalists (Kate Adie, Rory Cellan-Jones).
BBC. Media Centre. The BBC Announces its Four-Year World War One Centenary Season, 16 October, 2013 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/world-war-one-centenary.html]
The BBC’s announcement on 16 October, 2013,
of its plans to mark the First World War Centenary with a project designed to
feature “four years of programming and events spanning 2014-2018 – echoing the
timeframe of the war”.
— Marking the Centenary of World War One
across the BBC, 4 February, 2014
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/ww1/]
The website provides an introduction and also affords links to information provided under the following headings: Documentaries, Historical Debate, Commemoration, Arts & Music, Drama, Across the UK, Digital & Online, Children's & Schools, Special Editions
British Library. World War One [http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one]
“Supported by over 500
historical sources from across Europe, this resource examines key themes in the history of World
War One. Explore a wealth of original source material, over 50
newly-commissioned articles written by historians, teachers' notes and more to discover how
war affected people on different sides of the conflict”.[Britiah Library’s
description of the website]
Europeana, 1914-1918 [http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en]
“Launched in January 2014, the website
contains material from 20 European countries divided into broad categories
(remembrance, propaganda, aerial warfare, etc.) and searchable by the resource
type … In addition to official documents, the site also aims to digitise
personal papers and memorabilia held by the families of servicemen via a series
of family history roadshows held in 17 nations across Europe”. [Quotations
extracted from Philips, C. Review of First World War Digital Resources, q.v.]
Exeter University. First World War in the Classroom [http://ww1intheclassroom.exeter.ac.uk/]
Presents “the
findings of an AHRC[Arts and Humanities Research Council] - funded project
led by Catriona Pennell, which examined the links between education and the
manner in which the war was both perceived and commemorated”. [Quotation
extracted from Philips, C. Review of First World War Digital Resources, q.v.]
First World War
Poetry Digital Archive. [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/]
“The name of the
site is … something of a misnomer. Although poems (and links to archival
collections) from the likes of Owen, Sassoon, Graves and Jones are available,
only ten poets and authors are featured, leading to the omission of significant
names like Brooke, McCrae and the hugely popular John Oxenham. What the site
does provide is a remarkable collection of publications from the war itself,
including digitised copies of the Craiglockheart Hospital journal The Hydra, and links to the university’s sister project, the Great War
Archive. Now linked to the
Europeana project [q.v.] … the archive contains over 6,500 items
contributed by members of the public in 2008. As a result, the vast majority of
material provided relates to British soldiers, the most of whom have little to
no relationship with the poets showcased on the main site. With the final
project report for the poetry digital archive having been written in January
2010, and the focus upon contributing to the larger Europeana project,
it would appear that the archive is now effectively closed for entries and will
not be further expanded”. [Quotation
extracted from Philips, C. Review of First World War Digital Resources, q.v.]
Imperial War Museum. First World War Centenary
Partnership.
[http://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/projects-partnerships/first-world-war-centenary-partnership]
“The First World War Centenary Programme is a vibrant
global programme of cultural events,
exhibitions and activities, and online resources that connect current and future
generations with the lives, stories and impact of the First World War. The
programme is presented by the First World War Centenary Partnership, a network of local,
regional, national and international cultural and educational organisations,
led by IWM”. [IWM’s description of the website]
Imperial war Museum. Lives
of the First World War [http://www.iwm.org.uk/centenary/lives-of-the-first-world-war]
The focal point of the IWM’s contribution to the WW1 centenary
is the Lives of the First World War project which aims aims to create a “permanent digital memorial to
more than eight million men and women from across Britain and the Commonwealth”
before the end of the centenary. “This
innovative, interactive platform will bring material from museums, libraries,
archives and family collections from across the world together in one place,
inspiring people of all ages to explore, reveal and share the life stories of
those who served in uniform and worked on the home front”. [The quotations are extracted fro IWM’s
description of the websiste]
International Society for First World Studies [http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/]
“Provides
a location for those with a more recognisably academic approach to the war.
Created in 2001 by Jenny Macleod and Pierre Purseigle, the society
[International Society for First World Srudies] is an international network
which organizes or sponsors conferences, seminars and workshops, and is responsible
for the publication of a journal, First World War Studies, and a
series of edited volumes based on conference proceedings”. Th reviwer also points out thtat the society
provides “one essential resource for researchers both new and experienced, a
colossal – and expanding – collaborative bibliography of
reference materials associated with the First World War … in a multitude of
languages.”. [Quotations extracted from
Philips, C. Review of First World War Digital
Resources, q.v.]
Light, S. Scarletfinders [http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/index.html]
This website, of which Sue Light is the
owner, contains “a combination of introductory essays distinguishing the
various nursing services; reference guides for genealogists and researchers; and
a series of transcripts from official documents held at archives such as the
Imperial War Museum and the National Archives”, [Quotation extracted from Philips,
C. Review of First
World War Digital Resources, q.v]
Phillips, C. Review of First World War Digital
Resources, (review no. 1626)
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1626.
This is from the Institute of Historical Research’s
online series, Reviews in History
Tynemouth World War 1 Commemoration Project. [http://www.tynemouthworldwarone.org/index.html]
An example of the proliferation of
locally-oriented online sites on the First World War
United Kingdom. Government. First World War
Centenary, 2014
[https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/first-world-war-centenary]
Announcement
of plans led by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (and also
involving the Ministry of Defence, Department for Education, Department for
Communities and Local Government and Foreign & Commonwealth Office),
working alongside partners including Imperial War Museums, Heritage Lottery
Fund and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, “to build a commemoration
fitting of this significant milestone in world history”.
Books
Ashplant, T. G. and others, eds.
Commemorating War: The Politics of Memory, edited by Timothy G.
Ashplant, Graham Dawson, and Michael Roper, 1st paperback edn (London: Transaction Publishers, 2004)
Originally
published under the title, The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration,
London : Routledge, 2000.
Goebel, S and D. Keene, eds. Cities into
Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios,
Experiences, and Commemorations of Total War (Farnham:
Ashgate, 2011)
In an analysis of the global impact of military conflict on
metropolises in the era of the First and Second World Wars this work explores
the way in which cities were transformed into battlefields as a result of the
blurring of the the boundaries between home and front.
Saunders, N. J. Trench Art,
2nd edn (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2011)
Wittman, L.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier:
Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body (Toronto; Buffalo
University of Toronto Press, 2011)
Articles
Goebel, S. ‘Beyond Discourse? Bodies and Memories of Two World
Wars’, Journal of Contemporary History, 42 (2007), 377-386
Review article.
— ‘Intersecting Memories: War
and Remembrance in Twentieth-Century Europe’, Historical Journal, 44
(2001), 853-858
Wright, S. ‘My
Favourite History Place: Tyne Cot Cemetery, near Ypres’, Historian (Historical Association), 122 (2014), 42
Books
Cornish, P. The First World War
Galleries (London: Imperial
War Museum, 2014)
See also article
below by James Taylor entiled ‘New First World War Galleries’. The contents of the book by Cornish reflect
the themes of these new (IWM London) galleries, i.e. 1. Hope and Glory; 2. Shock;
3. Your Country Needs You; 4.
Deadlock; 5. World War; 6. Feeding the Front; 7. Total War; 8. At All Costs; 9. Life at the Front; 10. Machines Against
Men; 11. Breaking Down; 12. Seizing Victory; 13. War Without End
Cookstown’s War
Dead, 1914-1918; 1939-1945, compiled and
edited by Cookstown District Council in conjunction with The Friends of the
Somme Mid Ulster Branch (Cookstown:
Cookstown District Council, 2007)
Heathorn, S. Haig and Kitchener
in Twentieth-Century Britain: Remembrance, Representation and Appropriation (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013)
Tiller, K. Remembrance and Community: War Memorials
and Local History (Somersal
Herbert: British
Association for Local History 2013)
Articles
Beaupré, D.
and A.
Watkinson. ‘A Study of the Great
War Canadians Commemorated in the United Kingdom’, Bulletin of the Western
Front Association, 90 (June/July2011), 17-20
Connelly, M. ‘The Ypres League and the Commemoration of the Ypres
Salient, 1914-1940’, War In History, 16 (2009), 51-76
Durey, M. ‘The Great Trust: Mrs Edith Ash’s Campaign of
Remembrance, 1916-1954’, History 96 (2011), 260-279
Hewitt, N. ‘Return of the Fallen’, History Today, 59; Issue
9 (2009), 3
Changing attitudes
towards commemorating Britain’s war dead.
Horne, J. ‘Ireland at the Somme: A Tale of Two Divisions’, History
Today, 57,.Issue 4 (2007), 12-19
The author considers why the heroic
efforts of the two Irish divisions, the 16th (Irish) and the 36th (Ulster) on the
Western Front in 1916, have been represented so differently in terms of the
inividual monuments which were erected to commemorate them.
Keating, A. ‘Remembrance Today: Poppies, Grief and Heroism’, Contemporary
British History, 28, (2014), 117-119
Kitching, P. ‘Out and About: First World War Memorials in the
Heart of London’, Historian (Historical Association), 122 (2014), 44-47
Malone, C. ‘The Art of Remembrance: The Arts and Crafts
Movement and the Commemoration of the British War Dead, 1916-1920’, Contemporary
British History, 26 (2012), 1-23
Mansell, J. G. ‘Musical Modernity and Contested
Commemoration at the Festival of Remembrance, 1923-1927’, Historical Journal,
52 (2009), 433-454
Robinson, H.
‘Remembering War in the Midst of Conflict: First World War Commemorations in
the Northern Irish Troubles’, Twentieth Century British History, 21
(2010), 80-101
Following the outbreak of the Troubles tthere has been a tendency in Northern Ireland for the commemorations of the world wars to be associated with the Protestant and unionist community, with Catholics often alienated or choosing not to be involved. This tendency.has grown stronger with the result that these commeorations have become increasingly rowdy and loyalist and much less clearly linked with war remembrance
Stephens, J. ‘“The
Ghosts of Menin Gate”: Art, Architecture and Commemoration’, Journal of
Contemporary History, 44 (2009), 7-26
This article relates both to the gate, designed by the architect Reginald Blomfield
in 1922 to commemorate the 56,000 British Empire soldiers lost in the battles
of the Ypres Salient, and to the picture, Menin Gate at Midnight (painted by the Australian artist and
soldier William Longstaff in 1927) showing the gate in the context of a
landscape inhabited by ghostly soldiers.
Taylor, J. ‘New First World War
Galleries’, Despatches (The Magazine of
the Friends of the Imperial War Museum), no. 18 (2014), 14-19
In this articles James Taylor, IWM’s Head of
Research and Information, provides a description of the background and contents
of IWM London’s new First World War galleries which were opened to the public
on 19 July 2014 after the completion of a project involving over four years of
planning and research. A book by Paul
Cornish entitled ‘The First World War Galleries’ (q.v.) was published to
accompany the completion of the project.
Website
North East War Memorials Project.
]http://www.newmp.org.uk/index.php]
“The NEWP is intended to assist members of the
public, Local and Family History Groups, Military Historians, Schools and
individuals to learn about and research their local War Memorials and record
the results. It aims to record every
War Memorial located between the River Tweed and River Tees” [extracted from
website introduction]. Under the
sub-section, ‘Resources’, there is a bibliography which covers works on
monuments, war graves and cemeteries, war memorials and rolls of honours, and
war memorial artists, both generally and also by specific regions and towns
around the world - mostly related to
the two World Wars. Although the
bibliography is to a certain extent global in its approach its emphasis is on
Great Britain.
Van Hartesveldt, F. R. The Battles of
the British Expeditionary Forces, 1914-1915: Historiography and Annotated
Bibliography (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005)
Autobiographies,
Biographies, Diaries, Letters
Headlam, Sir. C. M.
The Military Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam
1910-1942, edited by Jim Beach, Publications of the Army Records Society,
30 (Brimscombe Port: History Press, 2010)
Cuthbert
Headlam joined the Bedfordshire Yeomanry in 1910 and went with them to France in
1915. After moving across to the General Staff and reaching the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel he served in a variety of mainly intelligence posts before
becoming the British Expeditionary Force’s principal doctrine writer. He became
a Conservative politician after the First World War and also edited the Army
Quarterly until 1942.. His letters
and diary entries provide an informative insight into the British Army in in a
time of war.
Syk, A., ed. The
Military Papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude, 1914-1917 (Stroud:
History Press for the Army Records Society, 2012)
Books
Badsey, S. The British Army
in Battle and Its Image, 1914-18 (London: Continuum, 2009)
— Doctrine and
Reform in the British Cavalry, 1880-1918, Birmingham Studies in First World War History (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008)
Beach, J. Haig’s Intelligence GHQ and the German Army, 1916-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013)
Boff. J. Winning
and Losing on the Western Front: The British Third Army and the Defeat of
Germany in 1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2012)
An examination of how the
opposing armies fought during the ‘Hundred Days’ campaign and an assessment of how
far the British Army’s application of adaptation to the changing nature of
modern warfare provided the basis for this army's part in the Allied victory.
Harris, J. P. Douglas Haig and the First World War, [new edn] (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009)
Heathorn, S. J. Haig and Kitchener in Twentieth-Century
Britain: Remembrance, Representation and Appropriation. (Farnham: Ashgate,
2013)
Marble, S. .British
Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War: “The Infantry Cannot Do With A Gun Less” (Farnham:: Ashgate 2013}
Philpott, W. J. Anglo-French Relations and
Strategy on the Western Front, 1914-18
(Basingstoke: Macmillan in
association with King's College London, 1996)
Pois, R. A. and P. Langer. Command Failure in War:
Psychology and Leadership (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Pres, 2004)
See chapter 7: Conventional
Historical Explanations: The British Military in World War I
Prete, R.A. Strategy and
Command: The Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009)
Robbins, S. British
Generalship during the Great War: The Military Career of Sir Henry Horne
(1861-1929) (Farnham: Ashgate
Publishing Ltd, 2010)
Stevenson,
D. With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (London: Allen Lane, 2011; repr. London: Penguin,
2012)
Stevenson, R.
C. To Win the
Battle: The 1st Australian Division in the Great War, 1914-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2013)
Articles
Bechthold, M.
‘Command, Leadership, and Doctrine on the Great War Battlefield: The
Australian, British, and Canadian Experience at the Battle of Arras, May 1917’,
War and Society, 32 (2013), 116-137
Delaney, D.E.
‘Mentoring the Canadian Corps: Imperial
Officers and the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918’, Journal of
Military History, 77 (2013), 931-954
The highly effective Canadian Corps of 1918, commanded and staffed almost entirely by Canadian officers, was the product of the help provided between 1914-1918 by the British Army which sent scores of officers to Canadian formations to make up key command and staff deficiencies in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and to train selected officers to take their places.
Hall, B.N. ‘Technological Adaptation in a Global Conflict: The
British Army and Communications beyond the Western Front, 1914-1918’, Journal
of Military History, 78 (2014), 37-72
Harris, P. and
S. Marble. ‘The “Step-by-Step'”
Approach: British Military Thought and Operational Method on the Western Front,
1915-1917’, War in History, 15 (2008), 17-42
Lawrence,
A. ‘Was Stalemate on
the Western Front the Fault of the Generals?’, History Review, 53 (2005),
48-50
Lloyd, N. ‘The Imperial Triumph of Amiens’, History
Today, 64, Issue 5 (2014), 72
Nick
Lloyd revisits John Terraine’s ground-breaking 1958 article on the decisive,
though neglected, Allied victory at Amiens in 1918.
— ‘“With Faith
and Without Fear”: Sir Douglas Haig's Command of First Army During 1915’,
Journal of
Military History, 71 (2007),
1051-1076
Meriwether, J.
L. ‘Leaving Kitchener’s Shadow: Frances Aylmer Maxwell, a Modern Warrior’, Archives
(Journal of the British Records
Association), 30, Issue 112 (2005), 60-72
Wilkinson, R.
‘Lloyd George and the Generals’, History Review, 61 (2008), 31-36
About the fractious relations between Lloyd George and the
generals during the Great War
Heathorn, S. ‘The
Mnemonic Turn in the Cultural Historiography of Britain’s Great War’, Historical
Journal, 48 (2005), 1103-1124
Thacker, T. British
Culture and the First World War: Experience, Representation and Memory (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)
·
Books
Potter, J.
Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women’s Literary Responses to the Great
War 1914—1918 (Oxford: Clarendon, 2005)
Taylor, D. Memory, Narrative and the Great War: Rifleman
Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience (Liverpool Liverpool University
Press 2013)
Waller, P. Writers, Readers and Reputations:
Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
·
Articles
Cullen, S. M.
‘“The Land of My dreams”: The
Gendered Utopian Dreams and Disenchantment of British literary Ex-Combatants of
the Great War’, Cultural And Social History, 8 (2011), 195 - 211
—
‘Oxford’s Literary War: Oxford
University’s Servicemen and the Great War’, Historian (Historical
Association), 110 (2011), 12-17
Doty, B. ‘“As a Mass, a Phenomenon so Hideous”:
Crowd Psychology, Impressionism, and Ford Madox Ford’s Propaganda’, Journal
of War and Culture Studies, 6 (2013), 169-182
Eksteins,
M. 'History or Histrionics: Recent
Writing on the Great War’, Canadian Journal of History, 20 (985),
393-403
— ‘War,
Memory, And Politics - The Fate of the Film “All Quiet On The Western Front”’, Central European History,
13 (1980), 60-62
Schoentjes, P. ‘War: “A Railway Running Across a Picturesque
Mountain Scene”. Images of Nature in the Literature of the Great War’, Journal
of War and Culture Studies, 6 (2013), 141-153
Strachan, H.
‘John Buchan and the First World War:
Fact into Fiction’, War in History, 16 (2009), 298-324
An exploration of the the ways in which Buchan, a
man of affairs, historian, and propagandist as well as a novelist, exploited
the inside knowledge of the facts about the war (derived from his government
activities) to write his fictions about it both during the war and after
it. Also includes a consideration of
Buchan’s thoughts about the war’s conduct and the function of propaganda within
it.
Taylor, D. ‘From Fighting the War to Writing the War: From Glory to
Guilt?’, Contemporary British History, 23 (2009), 293-313
About
Patrick MacGill, the Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as “The Navvy
Poe” because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing, During the Great War he joined the London
Irish Rifles and was wounded at the Battle of Loos in 1915, subsequent to which
he served in Military Intelligence between 1916 and the Armistice in 1918. His wartime experiences provided inspiration
for his autobiographical novels, The Amateur Army (1915) and The Great Push (1916). His post-war
novel Fear!, published in 1921 is an early example of disillusionment
with the war by an individual whose perceptions of the Great War as expressed
in his writing while seving as a soldier changed dramatically in what he wrote
after the war had ended..
Tylee, C. M. ‘“Munitions of the Mind”: Travel Writing, Imperial
Discourse and Great War Propaganda by Mrs. Humphry Ward’, English Literature
in Transition, 1880-1920, 39 (1996), 171-192
Wild, J. ‘“A Merciful, Heaven-Sent Release”?: The Clerk and The First World War in British Literary Culture’, Cultural And Social History, 4 (2007), 73-94
An exploration of the experience of the Great War by the large number of British office workers who enlisted in the armed forces and the effect which, it is argued, this had on shaping a more democratic postwar society as was evidenced by the figure of the fictional clerk that emerges in British literature after 1918.
4.2.2 Personal
Reminiscences, Autobiographical Works
4.2.2.2 Post 2nd World War
Appleton, E.. A Nurse at the Front: The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton, edited by R. Cowen, War Diaries (London: Simon and Schuster, 2013)
Barrett, D. Men
of Letters (Basingstoke: AA
Publishing,, 2014)
The
author uses the personal stories, letters and diary entries of the men who
joined the Post Office Rifles to produce an account which highlights the
important role of the mail in relation to the ordinary lives of people during
the war.
Best, K. A Chaplain at Gallipoli, the Great War Diaries of Kenneth Best, edited by G. Roynon, War Diaries (London: Simon & Schuster in
association with the Imperial War Museum, 2011
Bond, B. ed. Liddell Hart's Western Front: Impressions of the Battle of the Somme, with war letters, diary and occasional notes
written on active service in France and Flanders 1915 and 1916, limited edn (Brighton:
Tom Donovan, 2010)
Buckle, H. A Tommy’s
Sketchbook: Writings and Drawings from
the Trenches, edited by David Read (Stroud: The
History Press, 2012)
Chapman, S. Home in Time for Breakfast: A First World
War Diary (London: Athena, 2007)
Crewdson, R., ed. Dorothea’s
War: The Diary of a First World War Nurse (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
2013)
Grinnell-Milne, D. Wind in the Wires (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1933; repr. London: Grub Street, 2014)
Memoir of a British pilot about his experiences of flying in the First World War
Harrison, M. C.
C. and H. A. Cartwright. Within Four
Walls: A Classic of Escape (London: Pen & Sword Military, 2015)
Lamin, B. Letters
from the Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War (London: Michael
O’Mara, 2009; repr.
2013)
Levine J, ed. Forgotten Voices
of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of
those Who Survived, [compiled and edited by] Joshua Levine. (London : Ebury Press 2008)
Livingstone, T. C.
Tommy’s War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918 (London: HarperPress, 2008)
Mace, M. and J. Grehan. Slaughter
on the Somme, 1 July 1916: The Complete
War Diaries of the British Army’s Worst Day (London: Pen & Sword, 2013)
In this work
are gathered together, for the first time ever, all the War Diary entries for
those battalions that were enagaged in the battle on that day.
Machin, T.,
ed. “Coward's War”: The Diaries
of Private George H. Coward, Somerset Light Infantry and Royal Engineers; an “Old Contemptible’s” View of the Great
War (Leicester: Matador, 2006)
Moore, C. Trench Fever (London: Abacus 2013)
The author tracres
the war-time experiences of his grandfather, Private Walter Butterworth
of the Fifth Battalion, the Leicestershire Regiment, by following the three
year march of the latter regiment through France and Flanders. Originally published: London: Little, Brown,
1998
Owens, H. A Doctor on the Western Front; The Diary of Henry Owens, edited by John
Hutton (London: Pen & Sword, 2013)
Ronayne, I. ed. Amateur Gunners: The Great War
Adventures, Letters and Observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2014)
Staniforth, J. H. M.
At War with the 16th Irish Division 1914-1918: The Staniforth [John Hamilton Maxwell Staniforth] Letters,
edited by Richard S. Grayson (Barnsley:
Pen & Sword Military in association with the Imperial War Museum, 2012)
Tustin, H. W. Escaping from the Kaiser: The Dramatic Experiences of a Tommy POW (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2014)
Wadsworth, J. Letters
from the Trenches: The First World War by Those Who Were There (London: Pen & Sword Military, 2014)
The author uses the letters to reveal the human side of the First World War (people’s thoughts and feelings) in relation to all social classes and groups – from officers to other ranks, service women to conscientious objectors
Weir, N. A.
C. Mud and Bodies: The War Diaries
and Letters of Captain N. A. C. Weir, 1914-1920, edited by Saul David
(Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2013)
Although Neil Weir died in 1967 it was
not until 2009 that his grandson Mike Burns discovered his diary among boxes he
had been left. Mike Burns worked
closely with Saul David and Frontline Books in the publication of this book.
, W. and G.
Whittaker. Somewhere in France: A Tommy’s Guide
to Life on the Western Front (Stroud:
Amberley Publishing,
2014)
By means of the letters of William
Whittaker, a soldier in the Great War, and family anecdotes Geoffrey Whittaker,
his son, re-creates the world of the Tommy in the trenches.
Williamson, W. A Tommy at Ypres: Walter’s War, the
diary and letters of Walter Williamson Williamson compiled by Doreen Priddey
(Stroud: Amberley 2013)
Originally published: 2011
The selection of fiction listed below supplements
the representative selection of the Great War works of fiction published after
the Second World War that were recorded in the printed bibliography I published
in 2014 (see Introduction above)
Eldridge, J. The
Trenches: A First World War Soldier, 1914-1918 (London : Scholastic, 2008)
Fiction aimed at 8 to 12 year-olds
Wilding, V. Road to War: A First World War Girl's Diary 1916-1917 (London : Scholastic, 2008)
Fiction aimed at 8 to 12 year-olds.
Young, L. My Dear, I
Wanted to Tell You (London:
HarperCollins, 2011)
A novel in which the author encapsulates the effect of the
Great War on those left behind as well as on those who fight.
— The Heroes’ Welcome (London: The Borough Press, 2014)
In this sequel to the above novel the author evokes the
trauma and hopes of families in the aftermath of the Great War
Vandiver, E.
Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry
of the Great War (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2010; repr. in paperback
2013)
Anthologies
Duffy, C. A., ed. 1914: Poetry Remembers
(London: Faber, 2013)
This anthology to mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014 was the result of the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, engaging the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Great War that had the most profound impact on them and also commissioning them to write a poem of their own encapsulating their response to the war.
O’Prey, P. First
World War Poems from the Front (London: Imperial War Museum 2014)
Books
Landy, M.,
ed. The Historical Film: History
and Memory in Media (London: Athlone 2001)
4.3.2.1 Articles
Byrnes, P. Gallipoli on Film (Australia’s Audiovisual
Heritage Online)
http://aso.gov.au/titles/collections/gallipoli-on-film/
Eksteins,
M. ‘War, Memory, And Politics - The Fate of the Film “All Quiet On The Western Front”’, Central European History,
13 (1980), 60-62
Heathorn, S. ‘“A
Great Grey Dawn for the Empire”: Great
War Conspiracy Theory, the British State and the “Kitchener Film” (1921-1926)’,
War and Society (Duntroon Australia), 26, Issue 2 (2007), 51-72
“This article considers the political and
commercial manipulation of interwar conspiracy theories about Field Marshal
Earl Kitchener’s death in 1916, by focusing on a five-year struggle between a
film-promoter and the Home Office over a filmic counter-narrative to the
official story of Kitchener’s demise. The use of Kitchener’s iconic status by
competing interests in the immediate postwar era was tied to concrete political
anxieties and fears about the collapse of the rhetoric of the ‘equality of
sacrifice’ in a period of perceived social and economic crisis. Ultimately, the
state’s success in suppressing ‘the Kitchener film’ set an important precedent
for unofficial state political censorship of film in 1920s Britain”. [Abstact
from the internet]
Dillon, R. History on
British Television: Constructing Nation, Nationality and Collective Memory
(Manchester:
Manchester University Press,
2010)
Articles
Badsey, S. ‘The Great War Since The Great War’, Historical
Journal of Film Radio And Television , 22 (2002), 37-46
Burke, W. ‘The
Great War on the Small Screen: Representing the First World War in Contemporary
Britain’, Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, 31(2011),
113-115
Downing, T.
'History on TV’, History Today, 64, Issue 6 (2014), 18-20
Taylor
Downing looks at the making in 1964 (for the newly launched BBC2) of the
pioneering television series on the Great War that
marked the 50th anniversary of this war and revolutionised the history documentary.
Gardiner,
J. ‘Variations on a Theme of
Elgar: Ken Russell, the Great War, and
the Television ‘life’ of a Composer’, Historical Journal of Film Radio and
Television , 23 (2003), 195-210
Kuehl, J. ‘The Great War on DD Video’, Historical
Journal of Film Radio and Television , 23 (2003 ), 285-287
Lewis, J. and H. Strachan. ‘Filming the First World War’,
History Today , 53, Issue 10 (2003 ), 20-29
Thomson, D. ‘Parade's End:
Ford Madox Ford’s Masterpiece Comes to the Screen’, New Republic,
244, January 27 (2013), 64-65
Todman, D. ‘The Reception of The Great War in the
1960s’, Historical Journal of Film Radio And Television , 22 (2002),
29-36
The author examines the reception of the TV series The Great War by
its original audience in 1964–1965
Websites
BBC. Media Centre. The BBC Announces its Four-Year World War One Centenary Season, 16 October, 2013 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/world-war-one-centenary.html]
The BBC’s announcement on 16
October, 2013, of its plans to mark the First World War Centenary with a
project designed to feature “four years of programming and events spanning
2014-2018 – echoing the timeframe of the war”.
— Marking the Centenary of
World War One across the BBC, 4 February, 2014
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/ww1/]
The
website provides an introduction and also affords links to information provided
under the following headings: Documentaries, Historical Debate, Commemoration, Arts & Music, Drama, Across the UK, Digital & Online, Children's & Schools, Special Editions. A
great deal of this information is related to programmes that will be shown on
TV.
Books
McEnroe, N.
and others, eds. The Hospital
in the Oatfield: The Art of Nursing in the First World War, edited by Natasha McEnroe and Tig
Thomas; editorial consultant: Christine E. Hallett (London: Florence
Nightingale Museum, 2014)
“This book accompanies the
exhibition 'The hospital in the oatfield' displayed in the Florence Nightingale Museum in 2014 as
art of the First World War centenary, and curated by Natasha McEnroe and Holly
Carter-Chappell.” [Quotation from the front cover flyleaf]. See also the article below by Natasha
McEnroe (The Duchess and the Soldier’, History Today, 64 (2014),
4-5) and the item entitled The Hospital in the
Oatfield: The Art of Nursing in the
First World War in the section below headed Exhibitions
Slocombe,
R. Art from the First World War,
with an introductory essay by R. Tolson (London: Imperial War Museum, 2014)
Articles
Jones, N. ‘At
Arms, At Easels: Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler’, History Today, 64,
Issue 5 (2014), 4-5
Nigel Jones compares two artists, Churchill and Hitler, of the
Western Front.
McEnroe, N. ‘The Duchess and the Soldier’, History
Today, 64 (2014), 4-5
This article is about the ten oil paintings by Victor Tardieu (1870-1937) which depict the tented field hospital established and run by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland at Bourbourg, twelve miles south-west of Dunkirk, during the summer of 1915. Tardieu served there as an auxiliary with the Duchess of Sutherland for several months and subsequently joined the American Ambulance Field Service, during which time he was commissioned to produce war posters used to generate funds from the American public. The ten paintings were given to the Duchess by the artist and have descended through the Sutherland family. They have now been acquired by the Florence Nightingale Museum, which will be exhibiting them to honour the work of the Duchess of Sutherland and her nurses in the First World War from March 14th to October 26th, 2014 [http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/]. The image accompanying the McEnroe’s article [Oil on panel. 8.5 x 10.75 inches. Signed, inscribed and dated, 'Bourbourg Aout 1915'. Dedicated to Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland (1867-1955)] is one of the ten paintings being exhibited.
Saunders, N. J. Trench Art, 2nd edn (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2011)
Slocombe, R.
‘The Human Tragedy of the First World War’, Despatches (The Magazine of the Friends of the Imperial War Museum), 2, No. 13
(2011), 36-38
An article by Richard Slocombe, Senior Curator at Imperial War
Museum London, about C. R. W. Nevinson’s Paths of Glory
Stephens, J. ‘“The Ghosts of Menin Gate”: Art, Architecture and
Commemoration’, Journal of Contemporary History, 44 (2009), 7-26
This article relates both to the
gate, designed by the architect Reginald Blomfield in 1922 to commemorate the
56,000 British Empire soldiers lost in the battles of the Ypres Salient, and to
the picture, Menin Gate at Midnight (painted
by the Australian artist and soldier William Longstaff in 1927)
showing the gate in the context of a landscape inhabited by ghostly soldiers.
Walsh, M. ‘No Peace For The Wicked: A Censored Painter
[C. R. W. Nevinson] of the Great War ‘, Index on Censorship, 32; Issue 3
(2003 ), 21-29
Websites
Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Ambulance. [see menu under this title
in http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-on-land/casualties-medcal.html]
See article above by McEnroe and the exhibition below entitled The Hospital in the Oatfield for further information related to the Duchess of Sutherland.
Exhibitions
The Hospital in the Oatfield: The Art of Nursing in the First World War, New Exhibition to Honour Nurses in the First World War, 13th March – 26th October 2014.
[http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/resources/the-hospital-oatfield.html]
“The Florence Nightingale Museum will mark the centenary of the First World War with a special exhibition honouring the inspirational work of nurses in war-torn France. The exhibition centres on a series of remarkable paintings by Victor Tardieu of the field hospital run by the Society beauty, Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland. The exhibition explores the crucial role played by women in the battlefields of France and Belgium and shows the incredible innovation displayed by nurses under challenging and dangerous conditions”. [The Museum’s description of the exhibition]
Truth and Memory: British Art of the First World War. An exhibition held at the
Imperial War Museum London from December 2014 to 8 March 2015
Articles
Mansell,
J. G. ‘Musical Modernity and Contested Commemoration at the Festival of
Remembrance, 1923-1927', Historical Journal, 52 (2009), 433-454
Badsey, S..
‘The IWM Series - A Guide to the Imperial War Museum Collection of
Archive Film of World War I’, Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television,
13 (1993), 203-214
British
History Online [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/catalogue.aspx]
Digital library containing some of the core printed primary
and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British
Isles. Created by he Institute of
Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust.
Greenhalgh, E.
‘The Archival Sources for a Study of Franco-British Relations During the First
World War’, Archives (Journal of the British Records Association), 27,
Issue 107 (2002), 148-172
The First World War
A-Z: From Assassination to Zeppelin -
Everything You Need To Know (London: Imperial
War museum, 2014)
Brill’s Encyclopedia of the First World War, edited by Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerd Krumeich, Irina
Renz; in cooperation with Markus
Pohlmann, rev. edn, 2 vols (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012)
Tucker, S. C.
and P. M. Roberts, eds. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political,
Social, and Military History, 5 vols (Santa Barbara,
Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2005)
1.4.5 Atlases [No updates]
1.4.6 Web
Directories [No updates]
British Association For
Local History. Local History and the
First World War [http://www.balh.org.uk/education/local-history-and-the-first-world-war]
Numerous websites
were inaugurated in 2014 to commemorate the centenary of the First World
War. A number of them are listed under Websites in Section 1: General of Part 4; Remembering the War
[1] The 4 articles
are:
Francis, M. ‘Attending to Ghosts:
Some Reflections on the Disavowals of British Great War Historiography’, Twentieth
Century British History, 25 (2014), 347-367
Rose, S. O. ‘The Politics of Service
and Sacrifice in WWI Ireland and India’, Twentieth Century British History,
25 (2014), 368-390
Grayzel,
S. R. ‘Defence Against the Indefensible: The Gas Mask, the State and British
Culture during and after the First World War’, Twentieth Century British
History, 25 (2014), 418-434
Indian Sepoy Experience in Europe, 1914-18: Archive,
Language, and Feeling’, Twentieth
Century British History, 25 (2014),
391-417