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The Great War, Memory and Ritual - Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939 (Paperback)
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The Great War, Memory and Ritual - Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939 (Paperback)
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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This detailed case study of a part of London shows how both the
survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses
and implications of the Great War. 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 communitiesas 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. Mark Connelly is Professor of Modern British
Military History, University of Kent.
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