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

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Mark Connelly

The Great War, Memory and Ritual

Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939

Mark Connelly

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English

Royal Historical Society
19 February 2015

British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; First World War; Memorials & rolls of honour

Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

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.

By: Mark Connelly
Imprint: Royal Historical Society
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 23
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9780861933273
ISBN 10: 0861933273
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Pages: 271
Publication Date: 19 February 2015
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Professor of Modern British Military History, University of Kent

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

An excellent piece of original research, and an engaging study of how the fallen of the Great War were remembered through observance and memorial. MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY A very good and very readable detailed case study. ARMCHAIR AUCTIONS The war memorials of the 1914-1918 war are to be found everywhere in the British Isles...Through the meticulous scholarship of Mark Connelly, we can once again hear the voices of those who created them. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW A deep knowledge of memoirs, newspaper files, and local archives enables Connelly to show the communitarian codes that underlay the war memorial movement as well as the conflicts and divisions these activities occasioned. ALBION