The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-86193-253-5
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT

Buch, Englisch, Band VOLU, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Royal Historical Society Studi

The modern idea that the Great War was regarded as a futile waste of life by British society in the disillusioned 1920s and 1930s is here called into question by Mark Connelly. Through a detailed local study of a district containing a wide variety of religious, economic and social variations, he shows how both the survivors and the bereaved came to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War. His study illustrates the ways in which communities as diverse as the Irish Catholics of Wapping, the Jews of Stepney and the Presbyterian ex-patriate Scots of Ilford, thanks to the actions of the local agents of authority and influence - clergymen, rabbis, councillors, teachers and employers - shaped the memory of their dead and created a very definite history of the war. Close focus on the planning of, fund-raising for, and erection of war memorials expands to a wider examination of how those memorials became a focus for a continuing need to remember, particularly each year on Armistice Day.

Dr MARK CONNELLY is Reuters Lecturer in Media History, University of Kent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connelly, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Denkmäler, Mahnmale
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The City, East London and metropolitan Essex
War shrines: the origins of the war memorials movement
War memorials in places of worship: seeking solace in religion
The alternative bonds of community: war memorials in placesof work, schools, colleges and clubs
Civic war memorials: public pride and private grief
Laying the foundations, 1919-1921
The years rich in imagery, 1922-1929
The years of flux, 1930-1935
Into battle, 1936-1939
The East End Jewish ex-service movement
Epilogue
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Connelly, Mark
Professor of Modern British Military History, University of Kent