Adrian Gregory
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Gregory |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregory |
| SIGNATURE | GREGORY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Emma Hanna. Sounds of War
Journal Article Emma Hanna. Sounds of War: Music in the British Armed Forces During the Great War. Get access Emma Hanna. Sounds of War: Music in the British Armed Forces During the Great War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 307. Cloth $39.99. Adrian Gregory Adrian Gregory University of Oxford, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historica…
Globalising and Localising the Great War
This article is intended to suggest an approach to the global history of the First World War that can provide a method of managing the potentially unwieldy concept of global conflict by understanding it through the war's impact on localities. By concentrating on four relatively small but significant cities; Oxford in England, Halifax in Nova Scotia, Jerusalem in Palestine and Verdun in eastern France, which experienced the war in very different w…
Imperial Capitals at War
London was one of six large imperial capitals in Europe (Berlin, Constantinople, Paris, St Petersburg, Vienna) which became focal points of total war during the First World War. In some respects, each of these capitals can be understood as undergoing a form of siege in which the endurance of the population at the heart of the combatant Empires was severely tested. London proved to have important resources which helped it to endure better than som…
British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War, by Sanders Marble
Journal Article British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War, by Sanders Marble Get access British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War , by Sanders Marble ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 ; pp. 285 . £65 ). Adrian Gregory Adrian Gregory Pembroke College , Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015, Pages 1589–1590,…
The Making of the First World War, by Ian Beckett
As the centenary approaches, the challenge of finding a new way to explain the significance of the First World War is exercising many historians of this period. Ian Beckett has had a clever idea based on the widespread enthusiasm for lists and a new-found revival of historical interest in the ‘event’. Beckett tries to explore the historical legacy of the war through the identification of the particular moments during the conflict that defined its…
Winning and Losing on the Western Front
I have a habit which simultaneously irritates and amuses my wife. When a scene in a television drama such as Downton Abbey or Birdsong purports to show the British Army on the Western Front in late 1918, I usually find myself screaming at the screen ‘No, it wasn’t like that!’ There can be few areas where the assumptions of even the reasonably historically literate diverge as sharply from the view of the specialist than on the topic of the ‘hundre…
Landscapes of the Western Front
Considering that it was widely observed to be a war of matériel by contemporaries, the material culture of the First World War has taken quite a while to become prominent in the academic historiography of the Great War. So, in principle, Ross Wilson’s book should be a welcome addition to the literature, and in many ways it is. It is a book packed full of interesting information, and, as if ‘materiality’ alone were not enough, it also promises an …
The First World War
The collections made available through this digital tool were brought together with the assistance of a highly distinguished advisory panel of historians. Although the title ‘personal experiences’ implies that it deals with the most intimate sources, in fact a great deal of the material presented here is very much generated within the public discourse of the war: it would be more accurate to describe this as a ‘social history’ in order to embrace…
Telling Tales about Men
Journal Article Telling Tales about Men: Conceptions of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service during the First World War, by Lois Bibbings Get access Telling Tales about Men: Conceptions of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service during the First World War, by Lois Bibbings (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2009; pp. 255. £55). Adrian Gregory Adrian Gregory Pembroke College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Enduring the Great War
There is an interesting disparity in assessments of the German army during the First World War. German historians such as Bernd Ulrich, Benjamin Ziemann, Wolfgang Kruse, Christoph Jahr and Wilhelm Deist have emphasized the oppressive and repressive nature of German militarism and the resentment of its main victims, which is to say the ordinary German soldiers. By contrast British and American military historians including Terence Zuber, Bruce Gud…
The Last Great War
What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of…
Europe at War, 1939-45
THE book is certain to sell and find a general audience. But is this a book that the professional historian needs to read? Does it provide fresh interpretations and perspectives that will benefit our scholarship, are we likely to learn anything factually new which is important, and is it a reliable work of reference? On balance, the judgement on these points must be negative. At the centre of Davies's ‘reinterpretation’ of the war are two crucial…
The History of the First World War
Journal Article 1914–1918: The History of the First World War Get access Adrian Gregory Adrian Gregory Pembroke College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 488, September 2005, Pages 1056–1059, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei347 Published: 01 September 2005
Peculiarities of the English? War, Violence and Politics
GermanFrenchEnglische Besonderheiten? Krieg, Gewalt und Politik: 1900–1933Vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg war Gewalt am Rande von Streiks und bei Wahlkämpfen in Großbritannien eine häufige Erscheinung, auch wenn sie sich zumeist auf glimpflich verlaufende Prügeleien beschränkte. Nach 1918 stieß auch diese Gewalt auf wachsende Ablehnung. Aus ehemaligen Frontsoldaten setzten sich dagegen die «Black and Tans» zusammen, die mit brutaler Gewalt der irischen …
Great War, Total War
1Pembroke College, Oxford Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914–1918 RogerChickeringStigForster CambridgeCambridge U.P. 2000531£35
The Spirit of 1914
Journal Article The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany Jeffrey Verhey Get access Adrian Gregory Adrian Gregory Pembroke College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1238–2140, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1238 Published: 01 November 2000
Shorter notice. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. Roger Chickering
Journal Article Shorter notice. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. Roger Chickering Get access A Gregory A Gregory Pembroke College, Oxford, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 458, September 1999, Pages 1016–1017, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.458.1016 Published: 01 September 1999
The Boys of Kilimichael
The Silence of Memory
Lest we forget - the invention and reception of Armistice Day unknown soldiers - the marginality of veterans on 11 November and men like flowers are cut - the Haig Poppy appeal 1919-39 the undertones of war - Armistice Day in the thirties the irony of history - Armistice Day from peace to war God our help - the churches, Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday the restoration of tradition
The Last Great War
What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of…
Europe at War, 1939-45
THE book is certain to sell and find a general audience. But is this a book that the professional historian needs to read? Does it provide fresh interpretations and perspectives that will benefit our scholarship, are we likely to learn anything factually new which is important, and is it a reliable work of reference? On balance, the judgement on these points must be negative. At the centre of Davies's ‘reinterpretation’ of the war are two crucial…
Imperial Capitals at War
London was one of six large imperial capitals in Europe (Berlin, Constantinople, Paris, St Petersburg, Vienna) which became focal points of total war during the First World War. In some respects, each of these capitals can be understood as undergoing a form of siege in which the endurance of the population at the heart of the combatant Empires was severely tested. London proved to have important resources which helped it to endure better than som…
Peculiarities of the English? War, Violence and Politics
GermanFrenchEnglische Besonderheiten? Krieg, Gewalt und Politik: 1900–1933Vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg war Gewalt am Rande von Streiks und bei Wahlkämpfen in Großbritannien eine häufige Erscheinung, auch wenn sie sich zumeist auf glimpflich verlaufende Prügeleien beschränkte. Nach 1918 stieß auch diese Gewalt auf wachsende Ablehnung. Aus ehemaligen Frontsoldaten setzten sich dagegen die «Black and Tans» zusammen, die mit brutaler Gewalt der irischen …
The Silence of Memory
Lest we forget - the invention and reception of Armistice Day unknown soldiers - the marginality of veterans on 11 November and men like flowers are cut - the Haig Poppy appeal 1919-39 the undertones of war - Armistice Day in the thirties the irony of history - Armistice Day from peace to war God our help - the churches, Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday the restoration of tradition
Shorter notice. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. Roger Chickering
Journal Article Shorter notice. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. Roger Chickering Get access A Gregory A Gregory Pembroke College, Oxford, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 458, September 1999, Pages 1016–1017, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.458.1016 Published: 01 September 1999
The Boys of Kilimichael
The Spirit of 1914
Journal Article The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany Jeffrey Verhey Get access Adrian Gregory Adrian Gregory Pembroke College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1238–2140, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1238 Published: 01 November 2000
Great War, Total War
1Pembroke College, Oxford Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914–1918 RogerChickeringStigForster CambridgeCambridge U.P. 2000531£35
Peculiarities of the English? War, Violence and Politics
GermanFrenchEnglische Besonderheiten? Krieg, Gewalt und Politik: 1900–1933Vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg war Gewalt am Rande von Streiks und bei Wahlkämpfen in Großbritannien eine häufige Erscheinung, auch wenn sie sich zumeist auf glimpflich verlaufende Prügeleien beschränkte. Nach 1918 stieß auch diese Gewalt auf wachsende Ablehnung. Aus ehemaligen Frontsoldaten setzten sich dagegen die «Black and Tans» zusammen, die mit brutaler Gewalt der irischen …
The History of the First World War
Journal Article 1914–1918: The History of the First World War Get access Adrian Gregory Adrian Gregory Pembroke College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 488, September 2005, Pages 1056–1059, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei347 Published: 01 September 2005
Europe at War, 1939-45
THE book is certain to sell and find a general audience. But is this a book that the professional historian needs to read? Does it provide fresh interpretations and perspectives that will benefit our scholarship, are we likely to learn anything factually new which is important, and is it a reliable work of reference? On balance, the judgement on these points must be negative. At the centre of Davies's ‘reinterpretation’ of the war are two crucial…
The Last Great War
What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of…
Enduring the Great War
There is an interesting disparity in assessments of the German army during the First World War. German historians such as Bernd Ulrich, Benjamin Ziemann, Wolfgang Kruse, Christoph Jahr and Wilhelm Deist have emphasized the oppressive and repressive nature of German militarism and the resentment of its main victims, which is to say the ordinary German soldiers. By contrast British and American military historians including Terence Zuber, Bruce Gud…
Telling Tales about Men
Journal Article Telling Tales about Men: Conceptions of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service during the First World War, by Lois Bibbings Get access Telling Tales about Men: Conceptions of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service during the First World War, by Lois Bibbings (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2009; pp. 255. £55). Adrian Gregory Adrian Gregory Pembroke College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Landscapes of the Western Front
Considering that it was widely observed to be a war of matériel by contemporaries, the material culture of the First World War has taken quite a while to become prominent in the academic historiography of the Great War. So, in principle, Ross Wilson’s book should be a welcome addition to the literature, and in many ways it is. It is a book packed full of interesting information, and, as if ‘materiality’ alone were not enough, it also promises an …
The First World War
The collections made available through this digital tool were brought together with the assistance of a highly distinguished advisory panel of historians. Although the title ‘personal experiences’ implies that it deals with the most intimate sources, in fact a great deal of the material presented here is very much generated within the public discourse of the war: it would be more accurate to describe this as a ‘social history’ in order to embrace…
The Making of the First World War, by Ian Beckett
As the centenary approaches, the challenge of finding a new way to explain the significance of the First World War is exercising many historians of this period. Ian Beckett has had a clever idea based on the widespread enthusiasm for lists and a new-found revival of historical interest in the ‘event’. Beckett tries to explore the historical legacy of the war through the identification of the particular moments during the conflict that defined its…
Winning and Losing on the Western Front
I have a habit which simultaneously irritates and amuses my wife. When a scene in a television drama such as Downton Abbey or Birdsong purports to show the British Army on the Western Front in late 1918, I usually find myself screaming at the screen ‘No, it wasn’t like that!’ There can be few areas where the assumptions of even the reasonably historically literate diverge as sharply from the view of the specialist than on the topic of the ‘hundre…
British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War, by Sanders Marble
Journal Article British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War, by Sanders Marble Get access British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War , by Sanders Marble ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 ; pp. 285 . £65 ). Adrian Gregory Adrian Gregory Pembroke College , Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015, Pages 1589–1590,…
Imperial Capitals at War
London was one of six large imperial capitals in Europe (Berlin, Constantinople, Paris, St Petersburg, Vienna) which became focal points of total war during the First World War. In some respects, each of these capitals can be understood as undergoing a form of siege in which the endurance of the population at the heart of the combatant Empires was severely tested. London proved to have important resources which helped it to endure better than som…
Globalising and Localising the Great War
This article is intended to suggest an approach to the global history of the First World War that can provide a method of managing the potentially unwieldy concept of global conflict by understanding it through the war's impact on localities. By concentrating on four relatively small but significant cities; Oxford in England, Halifax in Nova Scotia, Jerusalem in Palestine and Verdun in eastern France, which experienced the war in very different w…
Emma Hanna. Sounds of War
Journal Article Emma Hanna. Sounds of War: Music in the British Armed Forces During the Great War. Get access Emma Hanna. Sounds of War: Music in the British Armed Forces During the Great War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 307. Cloth $39.99. Adrian Gregory Adrian Gregory University of Oxford, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historica…
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