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A Lark for the Sake of Their Country - The 1926 General Strike Volunteers in Folklore and Memory (Paperback)
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A Lark for the Sake of Their Country - The 1926 General Strike Volunteers in Folklore and Memory (Paperback)
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A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper
and middle-class 'volunteers' in the 1926 General Strike in Great
Britain. With behaviour derived from their play traditions - the
larks, rags, fancy dress parties, and treasure hunts that prevailed
at universities and country houses - the volunteers transformed a
potential workers' revolution into festive public display of
Englishness. Decades later, collective folk memories about this
event continue to define national identity. Based on correspondence
and interviews with volunteers and strikers, as well as
contemporary newspapers and magazines, novels, diaries, plays, and
memoirs, this book recreates the context for the volunteers'
actions. It explores how the upper classes used the strike to
assert their ideological right to define Britishness as well as how
scholars, novelists, playwrights, diarists, museum curators, local
historians, and even a theme restaurant, have continued to recycle
the strike to define British identity. -- .
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