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First World War Commemorations in Belgium and the Netherlands: comparative perspectives

open access: yesBMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2016
Memory of the First World War is refracted through that of other conflicts. Although these are the first ‘global’ commemorations, national narratives and politics loom large. Commemoration is still dominated by national framing.
Ben Wellings
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Running Wires: Digital History in the Classroom and the Field [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs is a digital history project that publishes the letters of a British World War I officer 100 years to the day they were written.
Isherwood, Ian A.   +2 more
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Learning the Fighting Game: Black Americans and the First World War

open access: yes, 2015
The experience of African American veterans of the First World War is most often cast through the bloody lens of the Red Summer of 1919, when racial violence and lynchings reached record highs across the nation as black veterans returned from the global ...
Johnson, S. Marianne
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Estimates of mortality and population changes in England and Wales over the two World Wars

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2005
Almost one million soldiers from England and Wales died during the First and Second World War whilst serving in the British Armed Forces. Although many articles and books have been published that commemorate the military efforts of the British Armed ...
Evgueni Andreev   +3 more
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Croatian-Slavonian Jews in the First World War

open access: yesQuest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2016
This paper seeks to present various levels of the Croatian-Slavonian Jews’ experience of the First World War. To begin with, although several war memorials are known to have been preserved, the scope of Jewish casualties remains unknown, having been a ...
Filip Hameršak, Ljiljana Dobrovšak
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The Generation of Memory: Reflections on the “Memory Boom” in Contemporary Historical Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Jay Winter delivered the following in the form of a lecture at the Canadian War Museum on 31 October 2000. A distinguished academic, Winter has been writing about the cultural history of the First World War for nearly three decades.
Winter, Jay
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