For king and country : the British monarchy and the First World War

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For king and country : the British monarchy and the First World War

Title remainder

the British monarchy and the First World War

Statement of responsibility

Heather Jones, University College London

Creator

• Jones, Heather, 1978-

Subject

• Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Great Britain -- Kings and rulers | History -- 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain
• Windsor, House of

Language

eng

Summary

This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front, as well as the monarchy's role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy's revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.--

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• Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks