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Britishness and commemoration: National memorials to the First World War in Britain and Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The 1917 call for a national memorial to the First World War led to the establishment of the Imperial War Museum in London. It also inspired Scottish, Welsh and Irish national memorials.
Macleod, Jenny
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Women’s Writing of The First World War

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2007
The article aims to withdraw the works of women writers from years of oblivion and neglect. These are the writers who depicted the dire consequence of war and its impact on women.
Aleksandra Kedzierska
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John Terrane: A Study of a First World War Revisionist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Of all the British military historians who started writing about the First World War during the boom of the sixties, perhaps no one has had greater influence or generated more controversy than John Alfred Terraine. As G.F. Elliot wrote in a 1965 review,
Hand, Christopher M.
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War on scale : models for the First World War battlefront [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay traces the evolution and use of military scale models during the First World War. The application of such models by all belligerents is characterized by an enormous diversity in scale, context, construction method and purpose.
Bekers, Willem, De Meyer, Ronald
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The first cyborg and First World War bodies as anti-war propaganda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article discusses a play published in The Strand Magazine during the First World War which features a cyborg presenting anti-war and pacifist messages, used by The Strand to create anti-German propaganda. The article draws on theories of disability,
Bourke J.   +22 more
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Children, Propaganda and War, 1914-1918: An exploration of visual archives in English city

open access: yesHistoria y Memoria de la Educación, 2018
Since 2014 there have been across Europe programmes of commemorative events to mark the Great War, 1914-18, and early amongst these events was an exhibition of photographs Paris 14-18, la guerre au quotidien at the Galerie des Bibliothéques de la Ville ...
Ian Grosvenor, Siân Roberts
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Songs of War: Anglo-Canadian Popular Songs on the Home Front, 1914-1918 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article explores the production, content, and reception of Anglo-Canadian popular songs composed during the First World War. It argues that popular songs reflected the changing attitudes of Anglo-Canadians, as composers and publishers created music ...
Karn, Sara
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Canada, War and Independent Newfoundland, 1914–1949

open access: yesThe London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2023
This article addresses the impact of war on Newfoundland, including Labrador, while Newfoundland was independent from Canada, and the role of war in the eventual addition of Newfoundland as a province of Canada in 1949. Newfoundland’s small and scattered
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The First World War between Memory and History: A Conference Retrospective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Long after the guns of the First World War went silent on 11 November 1918, the war continues to spark debate. The many points of contention were on full display at the “From Memory to History” conference, hosted by Western University in London, Ontario,
Schultz, Christopher, Weier, Jonathan
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