Michael Snape
Biographic Data
| ID | 4419504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Snape |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Snape |
| SIGNATURE | SNAPE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6130-0117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anglicans at Sea
This article examines the role of the Church of England in the Royal Navy before and during the First World War. It highlights the importance and ultimate fragility of their historic alliance, its reputational consequences, and their significance for our wider understanding of the impact of the war on England’s established church
All in the Same Boat? Anglicans, Catholics, and the Royal Navy in the Era of the First World War
British Christianity and the Second World War
Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity
Anglicans and Aviators
Nineteen‐eighteen saw the formation of the world's first independent air force, and the inauguration of the first independent chaplaincy organisation devoted to military aviation. However, the neglected creation of the Chaplains' Branch of the Royal Air Force (RAF) towards the end of the First World War represents far more than just a minor footnote in the institutional history of Britain's armed forces. The circumstances of its creation, which o…
Faith and Killing in the US Army in the Second World War
Challenging the mythology of the "Greatest Generation" this article examines the conduct of American combat soldiers in North Africa and Europe during the Second World War. Although the ferocity and barbarity of America!s Pacific War is widely recognised and attributed, at least in part, to the cultural and racial cleavages between America and Japan, the treatment of German and Italian soldiers by American ground troops invites greater examinatio…
Faith and Killing in the US Army in the Second World War
Challenging the mythology of the Greatest Generation, this article examines theconduct of American combat soldiers in North Africaand Europe during the Second World War. Although the ferocityand barbarityofAmericasPacific Wariswidely recognised and attributed, at least in part, to the cultural and racial cleavages between America and Japan, the treatment of German and Italian soldiers by American groundtroops invites greater examination. Here the…
Flanders and Helmand
The year 2014 marked the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and the end of eight years of major British combat operations in Afghanistan. Against the background of profound religious changes in British society over the course of the intervening century, this article examines the continuities and discontinuities between British army chaplaincy on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 and in southern Afghanistan from 2006 to 2014, and e…
Anglicanism and Interventionism
Although largely overlooked by historians, the worldwide Anglican Communion proved to be a major force in mobilising support for the Allied cause throughout the First World War. This article examines the wartime career of Bishop Charles Henry Brent, a Canadian-born bishop of America's Protestant Episcopal Church, who is usually remembered as a missionary, an ecumenist, and as a campaigner against the international opium trade. This article revisi…
Secularisation in the Christian World
The Redcoat and Religion
This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, Michael Snape challenges the widely-held assumption that religion did not play a role in the British Army until the mid-Victorian period, and demonstrates that the British soldier was high…
Marius Felderhof
Church of England Army Chaplains in the First World War
The British experience of the First World War has given rise to a host of myths and misconceptions in both the folklore and the historiography of the war. The most damaging of these for the Church of England has been that its army chaplains skulked in the rear while a generation of British men fought and died in the trenches of the Western Front. This article exposes the falsity of this myth, tracing its origins to the inter-war boom in ‘war book…
Civilians, Soldiers and Perceptions of the Afterlife in Britain during the First World War
For most educated Britons the First World War is synonymous with death on a massive scale. Although reliable estimates remained elusive for many years (this deceptively straightforward process being complicated by issues such as determining the nationality of the fallen and when to stop counting deaths as war-related), the figures are sobering enough: according to research published in the 1980s, as many as 772,000 Britons died in military servic…
Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815–1914
Book Review| April 01 2009 Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815–1914: Encountering and Managing the Poor Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815–1914: Encountering and Managing the Poor. Robert Lee. Michael Snape Michael Snape Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 275–276. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.2.275 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Sup…
British Army Chaplains and Capital Courts-Martial in the First World War
Of all the dark legends which have arisen out of the British experience of the First World War, perhaps none is more compelling than the fate of more than three hundred British, Dominion and Colonial soldiers who were tried and executed for military offences during the course of the conflict. Controversial at the time, these executions were the subject of much debate and official scrutiny in the inter-war period and, even today, the subject conti…
Anti-Methodism in Eighteenth-Century England
Notice is hereby given, that if any man be mindful to enlist in his Majesty's service, under the command of the Rev. Mr. George White, Commander-in-Chief, and John Bannister, Lieut.-General of his Majesty's forces for the defence of the Church of England, and the support of the manufactory in and about Colne, both which are now in danger, let him repair to the drum-head at the Cross, where each man shall receive a pint of ale in advance, and all …
Church of England Army Chaplains in the First World War
The British experience of the First World War has given rise to a host of myths and misconceptions in both the folklore and the historiography of the war. The most damaging of these for the Church of England has been that its army chaplains skulked in the rear while a generation of British men fought and died in the trenches of the Western Front. This article exposes the falsity of this myth, tracing its origins to the inter-war boom in ‘war book…
Anti-Methodism in Eighteenth-Century England
Notice is hereby given, that if any man be mindful to enlist in his Majesty's service, under the command of the Rev. Mr. George White, Commander-in-Chief, and John Bannister, Lieut.-General of his Majesty's forces for the defence of the Church of England, and the support of the manufactory in and about Colne, both which are now in danger, let him repair to the drum-head at the Cross, where each man shall receive a pint of ale in advance, and all …
Civilians, Soldiers and Perceptions of the Afterlife in Britain during the First World War
For most educated Britons the First World War is synonymous with death on a massive scale. Although reliable estimates remained elusive for many years (this deceptively straightforward process being complicated by issues such as determining the nationality of the fallen and when to stop counting deaths as war-related), the figures are sobering enough: according to research published in the 1980s, as many as 772,000 Britons died in military servic…
Anti-Methodism in Eighteenth-Century England
Notice is hereby given, that if any man be mindful to enlist in his Majesty's service, under the command of the Rev. Mr. George White, Commander-in-Chief, and John Bannister, Lieut.-General of his Majesty's forces for the defence of the Church of England, and the support of the manufactory in and about Colne, both which are now in danger, let him repair to the drum-head at the Cross, where each man shall receive a pint of ale in advance, and all …
British Army Chaplains and Capital Courts-Martial in the First World War
Of all the dark legends which have arisen out of the British experience of the First World War, perhaps none is more compelling than the fate of more than three hundred British, Dominion and Colonial soldiers who were tried and executed for military offences during the course of the conflict. Controversial at the time, these executions were the subject of much debate and official scrutiny in the inter-war period and, even today, the subject conti…
Civilians, Soldiers and Perceptions of the Afterlife in Britain during the First World War
For most educated Britons the First World War is synonymous with death on a massive scale. Although reliable estimates remained elusive for many years (this deceptively straightforward process being complicated by issues such as determining the nationality of the fallen and when to stop counting deaths as war-related), the figures are sobering enough: according to research published in the 1980s, as many as 772,000 Britons died in military servic…
Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815–1914
Book Review| April 01 2009 Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815–1914: Encountering and Managing the Poor Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815–1914: Encountering and Managing the Poor. Robert Lee. Michael Snape Michael Snape Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 275–276. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.2.275 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Sup…
Marius Felderhof
Church of England Army Chaplains in the First World War
The British experience of the First World War has given rise to a host of myths and misconceptions in both the folklore and the historiography of the war. The most damaging of these for the Church of England has been that its army chaplains skulked in the rear while a generation of British men fought and died in the trenches of the Western Front. This article exposes the falsity of this myth, tracing its origins to the inter-war boom in ‘war book…
The Redcoat and Religion
This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, Michael Snape challenges the widely-held assumption that religion did not play a role in the British Army until the mid-Victorian period, and demonstrates that the British soldier was high…
Secularisation in the Christian World
Flanders and Helmand
The year 2014 marked the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and the end of eight years of major British combat operations in Afghanistan. Against the background of profound religious changes in British society over the course of the intervening century, this article examines the continuities and discontinuities between British army chaplaincy on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 and in southern Afghanistan from 2006 to 2014, and e…
Anglicanism and Interventionism
Although largely overlooked by historians, the worldwide Anglican Communion proved to be a major force in mobilising support for the Allied cause throughout the First World War. This article examines the wartime career of Bishop Charles Henry Brent, a Canadian-born bishop of America's Protestant Episcopal Church, who is usually remembered as a missionary, an ecumenist, and as a campaigner against the international opium trade. This article revisi…
Faith and Killing in the US Army in the Second World War
Challenging the mythology of the "Greatest Generation" this article examines the conduct of American combat soldiers in North Africa and Europe during the Second World War. Although the ferocity and barbarity of America!s Pacific War is widely recognised and attributed, at least in part, to the cultural and racial cleavages between America and Japan, the treatment of German and Italian soldiers by American ground troops invites greater examinatio…
Faith and Killing in the US Army in the Second World War
Challenging the mythology of the Greatest Generation, this article examines theconduct of American combat soldiers in North Africaand Europe during the Second World War. Although the ferocityand barbarityofAmericasPacific Wariswidely recognised and attributed, at least in part, to the cultural and racial cleavages between America and Japan, the treatment of German and Italian soldiers by American groundtroops invites greater examination. Here the…
Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity
Anglicans and Aviators
Nineteen‐eighteen saw the formation of the world's first independent air force, and the inauguration of the first independent chaplaincy organisation devoted to military aviation. However, the neglected creation of the Chaplains' Branch of the Royal Air Force (RAF) towards the end of the First World War represents far more than just a minor footnote in the institutional history of Britain's armed forces. The circumstances of its creation, which o…
British Christianity and the Second World War
All in the Same Boat? Anglicans, Catholics, and the Royal Navy in the Era of the First World War
Anglicans at Sea
This article examines the role of the Church of England in the Royal Navy before and during the First World War. It highlights the importance and ultimate fragility of their historic alliance, its reputational consequences, and their significance for our wider understanding of the impact of the war on England’s established church
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