Eliza Riedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1627096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eliza Riedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eliza |
| FAMILY NAME | Riedi |
| SIGNATURE | RIEDI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Our Soldiers’ Widows’
The South African War created nearly 5,000 British working-class war widows: three-quarters of a million pounds was raised by public subscription to support them. This article investigates the three national war widows’ charities: the Royal Patriotic Fund, the Daily Telegraph / Scotsman Shilling Fund, and the Imperial War Fund. Highlighting the plight of war widows and orphans, it argues that evaluation of the war’s impact on British society must…
British Widows of the South African War and the Origins of War Widows’ Pensions
The South African War of 1899-1902 cost the lives of 22,000 British and colonial soldiers and created almost 5,000 British war widows. It was in this context that the first state pensions for the widows of rank and file soldiers were introduced in 1901. Triggered by unexpectedly high casualty rates and widespread dissatisfaction with charitable provision, the introduction of state pensions also reflected changing public attitudes towards soldiers…
Assisting MRS Tommy Atkins
Despite the well-established historiography examining the South African war's impact upon British society, little attention has been paid to the plight of British soldiers’ families or to the charitable efforts mobilized to maintain them in the absence of adequate state support. This article, focusing on the key charity in the field, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association (SSFA), examines the SSFA's wartime policies and considers how the…
The women pro-Boers
Despite a substantial historiography on the ‘pro-Boers’, the role of women in the British campaigns against the South African war has never been systematically examined. This article discusses women's activism through the two main pro-Boer organizations, the Stop the War Committee and the South Africa Conciliation Committee, and through Liberal women's organizations. It examines women pro-Boers' arguments and attitudes to both pacifism and imperi…
Imperialist Women and Conservative Activism in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
While elite women's imperialist activism in early-twentieth-century Britain is now well recognised, little attention has been paid to how this female imperialism was integrated into broader right-wing politics. The adherence of many right-wing women to a conventionally ‘masculine’ model of empire is also under-researched. This article explores the connections between imperial and wider right-wing politics, the new forms of Conservative activism f…
Sport and the Military
On battleships, behind the trenches of the Western Front and in the midst of the Desert War, British servicemen and women have played sport in the least promising circumstances. When 400 soldiers were asked in Burma in 1946 what they liked about the Army, 108 put sport in first place - well ahead of comradeship and leave - and this book explores the fascinating history of organised sport in the life of officers and other ranks of all three Britis…
Leather” and the Fighting Spirit
In 1931 General Harington declared that it was “leather” — in the shape of footballs and boxing gloves — that had won the Great War for Britain. During the First World War, sport — previously popular but unofficial in the British armed services — became formally integrated into the military system, both as “recreational training” and as an officially sanctioned form of leisure for other ranks. This article traces the process by which sport in the…
Teaching Empire
At the height of the South African War (1899-1902) three hundred women teachers from Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were recruited to work in the concentration camps set up by the British to hold Boer women and children. Existing historiography on the popular response to this imperial war in Britain and the ‘white dominions’ largely ignores women, though the war had a powerful politicising effect on both imperialist and anti-imperiali…
Women, Gender, and the Promotion of Empire
The Victoria League, founded in 1901 as a result of the South African War, was the only predominantly female imperial propaganda society in Britain during the Edwardian period. To accommodate women's activism within the ‘man's world’ of empire politics the League restricted its work to areas within woman's ‘separate sphere’ while transforming them into innovative methods of imperial propaganda. Through philanthropy to war victims, hospitality to …
Women, Gender, and the Promotion of Empire
The Victoria League, founded in 1901 as a result of the South African War, was the only predominantly female imperial propaganda society in Britain during the Edwardian period. To accommodate women's activism within the ‘man's world’ of empire politics the League restricted its work to areas within woman's ‘separate sphere’ while transforming them into innovative methods of imperial propaganda. Through philanthropy to war victims, hospitality to …
Teaching Empire
At the height of the South African War (1899-1902) three hundred women teachers from Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were recruited to work in the concentration camps set up by the British to hold Boer women and children. Existing historiography on the popular response to this imperial war in Britain and the ‘white dominions’ largely ignores women, though the war had a powerful politicising effect on both imperialist and anti-imperiali…
The women pro-Boers
Despite a substantial historiography on the ‘pro-Boers’, the role of women in the British campaigns against the South African war has never been systematically examined. This article discusses women's activism through the two main pro-Boer organizations, the Stop the War Committee and the South Africa Conciliation Committee, and through Liberal women's organizations. It examines women pro-Boers' arguments and attitudes to both pacifism and imperi…
British Widows of the South African War and the Origins of War Widows’ Pensions
The South African War of 1899-1902 cost the lives of 22,000 British and colonial soldiers and created almost 5,000 British war widows. It was in this context that the first state pensions for the widows of rank and file soldiers were introduced in 1901. Triggered by unexpectedly high casualty rates and widespread dissatisfaction with charitable provision, the introduction of state pensions also reflected changing public attitudes towards soldiers…
Assisting MRS Tommy Atkins
Despite the well-established historiography examining the South African war's impact upon British society, little attention has been paid to the plight of British soldiers’ families or to the charitable efforts mobilized to maintain them in the absence of adequate state support. This article, focusing on the key charity in the field, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association (SSFA), examines the SSFA's wartime policies and considers how the…
Leather” and the Fighting Spirit
In 1931 General Harington declared that it was “leather” — in the shape of footballs and boxing gloves — that had won the Great War for Britain. During the First World War, sport — previously popular but unofficial in the British armed services — became formally integrated into the military system, both as “recreational training” and as an officially sanctioned form of leisure for other ranks. This article traces the process by which sport in the…
Women, Gender, and the Promotion of Empire
The Victoria League, founded in 1901 as a result of the South African War, was the only predominantly female imperial propaganda society in Britain during the Edwardian period. To accommodate women's activism within the ‘man's world’ of empire politics the League restricted its work to areas within woman's ‘separate sphere’ while transforming them into innovative methods of imperial propaganda. Through philanthropy to war victims, hospitality to …
Teaching Empire
At the height of the South African War (1899-1902) three hundred women teachers from Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were recruited to work in the concentration camps set up by the British to hold Boer women and children. Existing historiography on the popular response to this imperial war in Britain and the ‘white dominions’ largely ignores women, though the war had a powerful politicising effect on both imperialist and anti-imperiali…
Leather” and the Fighting Spirit
In 1931 General Harington declared that it was “leather” — in the shape of footballs and boxing gloves — that had won the Great War for Britain. During the First World War, sport — previously popular but unofficial in the British armed services — became formally integrated into the military system, both as “recreational training” and as an officially sanctioned form of leisure for other ranks. This article traces the process by which sport in the…
Sport and the Military
On battleships, behind the trenches of the Western Front and in the midst of the Desert War, British servicemen and women have played sport in the least promising circumstances. When 400 soldiers were asked in Burma in 1946 what they liked about the Army, 108 put sport in first place - well ahead of comradeship and leave - and this book explores the fascinating history of organised sport in the life of officers and other ranks of all three Britis…
The women pro-Boers
Despite a substantial historiography on the ‘pro-Boers’, the role of women in the British campaigns against the South African war has never been systematically examined. This article discusses women's activism through the two main pro-Boer organizations, the Stop the War Committee and the South Africa Conciliation Committee, and through Liberal women's organizations. It examines women pro-Boers' arguments and attitudes to both pacifism and imperi…
Imperialist Women and Conservative Activism in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
While elite women's imperialist activism in early-twentieth-century Britain is now well recognised, little attention has been paid to how this female imperialism was integrated into broader right-wing politics. The adherence of many right-wing women to a conventionally ‘masculine’ model of empire is also under-researched. This article explores the connections between imperial and wider right-wing politics, the new forms of Conservative activism f…
British Widows of the South African War and the Origins of War Widows’ Pensions
The South African War of 1899-1902 cost the lives of 22,000 British and colonial soldiers and created almost 5,000 British war widows. It was in this context that the first state pensions for the widows of rank and file soldiers were introduced in 1901. Triggered by unexpectedly high casualty rates and widespread dissatisfaction with charitable provision, the introduction of state pensions also reflected changing public attitudes towards soldiers…
Assisting MRS Tommy Atkins
Despite the well-established historiography examining the South African war's impact upon British society, little attention has been paid to the plight of British soldiers’ families or to the charitable efforts mobilized to maintain them in the absence of adequate state support. This article, focusing on the key charity in the field, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association (SSFA), examines the SSFA's wartime policies and considers how the…
Our Soldiers’ Widows’
The South African War created nearly 5,000 British working-class war widows: three-quarters of a million pounds was raised by public subscription to support them. This article investigates the three national war widows’ charities: the Royal Patriotic Fund, the Daily Telegraph / Scotsman Shilling Fund, and the Imperial War Fund. Highlighting the plight of war widows and orphans, it argues that evaluation of the war’s impact on British society must…
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