The London Censorship, 1914-1919
Author : Great Britain. Postal Censorship Bureau
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Censorship
ISBN :
London Censorship 1914-1919
Author : Great Britain. Official press bureau
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 1919
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
British Censorship of Civil Mails During World War I, 1914-1919
Author : Graham Mark
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Postal service
ISBN :
Book Description
First World War Britain
Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782001212
Book Description
The First World War profoundly changed British society. The armed forces' need for mass recruitment saw the workforce severely depleted, with women stepping up to shoulder the burden; but nobody could ignore the social upheaval or the strains put upon daily life. With poverty a major issue at the outbreak of war, the extra wages put more food on the table for many families, in spite of rationing and shortages, and away from the front the nation prospered. The war intervened in all aspects of home life, and attacks from the sea and the air meant that civilians were caught up in 'total war'. Peter Doyle explores how British citizens met these challenges, looking at such aspects of daily life as clothing restrictions and popular arts, alongside broader issues like food shortages and industrial unrest.
British Theatre and the Great War, 1914 - 1919
Author : Andrew Maunder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 2015-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137402008
Book Description
British Theatre and the Great War examines how theatre in its various forms adapted itself to the new conditions of 1914-1918. Contributors discuss the roles played by the theatre industry. They draw on a range of source materials to show the different kinds of theatrical provision and performance cultures in operation not only in London but across parts of Britain and also in Australia and at the Front. As well as recovering lost works and highlighting new areas for investigation (regional theatre, prison camp theatre, troop entertainment, the threat from film, suburban theatre) the book offers revisionist analysis of how the conflict and its challenges were represented on stage at the time and the controversies it provoked. The volume offers new models for exploring the topic in an accessible, jargon-free way, and it shows how theatrical entertainment of the time can be seen as the `missing link’ in the study of First World War writing.
Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ...
Author : British Museum
Publisher :
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Best books
ISBN :
Book Description
Making Sense of the Great War
Author : Alex Mayhew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 100918573X
Book Description
The First World War was an unprecedented crisis, with communities and societies enduring the unimaginable hardships of a prolonged conflict on an industrial scale. In Belgium and France, the terrible capacity of modern weaponry destroyed the natural world and exposed previously held truths about military morale and tactics as falsehoods. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered some of the worst conditions that combatants have ever faced. How did they survive? What did it mean to them? How did they perceive these events? Whilst the trenches of the Western Front have come to symbolise the futility and hopelessness of the Great War, Alex Mayhew shows that English infantrymen rarely interpreted their experiences in this way. They sought to survive, navigated the crises that confronted them, and crafted meaningful narratives about their service. Making Sense of the Great War reveals the mechanisms that allowed them to do so.
Citizen Soldiers
Author : Helen B. McCartney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139448093
Book Description
The popular image of the British soldier in the First World War is of a passive victim, caught up in events beyond his control, and isolated from civilian society. This book offers a different vision of the soldier's experience of war. Using letters and official sources relating to Liverpool units, Helen McCartney shows how ordinary men were able to retain their civilian outlook and use it to influence their experience in the trenches. These citizen soldiers came to rely on local, civilian loyalties and strong links with home to bolster their morale, whilst their civilian backgrounds helped them challenge those in command if they felt they were being treated unfairly. The book examines the soldier not only in his military context but in terms of his social and cultural life. It will appeal to anyone wishing to understand how the British soldier thought and behaved during the First World War.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author : British Library
Publisher :
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 1922
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The Beauty and the Sorrow
Author : Peter Englund
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0307739287
Book Description
An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.
