British Popular Culture and the First World War
British Popular Culture and the First World War

Author: Jessica Meyer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-05-31

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 9047433386

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Much of the scholarship examining British culture of the First World War focusses on the 'high' culture of a limited number of novels, memoirs, plays and works of art, and the cultural reaction to them. This collection, by focussing on the cultural forms produced by and for a much wider range of social groups, including veterans, women, museum visitors and film goers, greatly expands the debate over how the war was represented by participants and the meanings ascribed to it in cultural production. Showcasing the work of both established academics and emerging scholars of the field, this book covers aspects of British popular culture from the material cultures of food and clothing to the representational cultures of literature and film. The result is an engaging and invigorating re-examination of the First World War and its place in British culture. Contributors are: Keith Grieves, Rachel Duffett, Jane Tynan, Krisztina Robert, Lucy Noakes, Stella Moss, Carol Acton, Douglas Higbee, John Pegum, Eugene Michail, Victoria Stewart, Virginie Renard, Claudia Sternberg, Richard Espley and Stephen Badsey. Erratum Introduction, Jessica Meyer, page 11 in the first sentence of the second paragraph, for 'talke' read 'talk.'

British Culture and the First World War
British Culture and the First World War

Author: George Robb

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 113730751X

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The First World War has left its imprint on British society and the popular imagination to an extent almost unparalleled in modern history. Its legacy of mass death, mechanized slaughter, propaganda, and disillusionment swept away long-standing romanticized images of warfare, and continues to haunt the modern consciousness. Focusing on the lives of ordinary Britons, George Robb's engaging new study seeks to comprehend what it meant for an entire society to undergo the tremendous shocks and demands of total war; how it attempted to make sense of the conflict, explain it to others, and deal with the war's legacies. British Culture and the First World War - examines the war's impact on ideologies of race, class and gender, the government's efforts to manage news and to promote patriotism, the role of the arts and sciences, and the commemoration of the war in the decades since - Synthesizes much of the best and most recent scholarship on the social and cultural history of the war. - Reclaims a great deal of neglected or forgotten popular cultural sources such as films, cartoons, juvenile literature and pulp fiction. Compact but comprehensive, this accessible and refreshing text is essential reading for anyone interested in British society and culture during the turbulent years of the First World War.

British Cultural Memory and the Second World War
British Cultural Memory and the Second World War

Author: Lucy Noakes

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1441104976

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Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.

Millions Like Us'?
Millions Like Us'?

Author: Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780853237631

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This collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. It covers the way in which cultural provision was viewed by the labour movement and industry.

Imperialism and Popular Culture
Imperialism and Popular Culture

Author: John M. MacKenzie

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1526119560

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Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times - in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education and the iconography of popular art. Several chapters look beyond World War I, when the most popular media, cinema and broadcasting, continued to convey an essentially late-19th-century world view, while government agencies like the Empire Marketing Board sought to convince the public of the economic value of empire. Youth organizations, which had propagated imperialist and militarist attitudes before the war, struggled to adapt to the new internationalist climate.

Troop Morale and Popular Culture in the British and Dominion Armies, 1914-1918
Troop Morale and Popular Culture in the British and Dominion Armies, 1914-1918

Author: J. G. Fuller

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780191675010

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This is a study of the factors which sustained men through the ordeal of trench warfare. It examines how the means of maintaining morale in the British and Dominion armies differed from those used among their allies and opponents, which were more susceptible to mutiny and defeatism.

The Great War and the British Empire
The Great War and the British Empire

Author: Michael J.K. Walsh

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1317029836

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In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable. It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica.

The Last Great War
The Last Great War

Author: Adrian Gregory

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-10-16

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0521450373

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A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.

Race and War in France
Race and War in France

Author: Richard S. Fogarty

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2008-08-15

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 0801888247

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Reservoirs of men -- Race and the deployment of troupes indigènes -- Hierarchies of rank, hierarchies of race -- Race and language in the army -- Religion and the "problem" of Islam in the French army -- Race, sex, and imperial anxieties -- Between subjects and citizens

British culture and the end of empire
British culture and the end of empire

Author: Stuart Ward

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1526119625

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This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.