Oliver Wilkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5844669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Wilkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkinson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINSON O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Education and Opportunity during the First World War. Post-compulsory Study at the Harris Institute, Preston, 1914–18
Education during the First World War is generally overlooked. Schooling was seriously undermined by the demands of war, and the principal educational measure to emerge from the war offered little recompense. Similarly, studies of education and opportunity in the early twentieth century pass quickly over the war years and the 1918 Education Act to focus on the inter-war period. This article argues that an important sector of education, that of par…
Clare Makepeace, Captives of War. British Prisoners of War in Europe in the Second World War
A Fate Worse Than Death? Lamenting First World War Captivity
This article explores grief regarding British servicemen captured by the Germans during the First World War. It examines prisoner of war (POW) mortality and analyses how death in captivity was privately mourned and publically represented. This study reveals that fallen POWs were subsumed as part of the homogenized war dead, facilitating their conceptualization within a wartime narrative that valorized their sacrifice. However, for POWs who did no…
A Fate Worse Than Death? Lamenting First World War Captivity
This article explores grief regarding British servicemen captured by the Germans during the First World War. It examines prisoner of war (POW) mortality and analyses how death in captivity was privately mourned and publically represented. This study reveals that fallen POWs were subsumed as part of the homogenized war dead, facilitating their conceptualization within a wartime narrative that valorized their sacrifice. However, for POWs who did no…
A Fate Worse Than Death? Lamenting First World War Captivity
This article explores grief regarding British servicemen captured by the Germans during the First World War. It examines prisoner of war (POW) mortality and analyses how death in captivity was privately mourned and publically represented. This study reveals that fallen POWs were subsumed as part of the homogenized war dead, facilitating their conceptualization within a wartime narrative that valorized their sacrifice. However, for POWs who did no…
Clare Makepeace, Captives of War. British Prisoners of War in Europe in the Second World War
Education and Opportunity during the First World War. Post-compulsory Study at the Harris Institute, Preston, 1914–18
Education during the First World War is generally overlooked. Schooling was seriously undermined by the demands of war, and the principal educational measure to emerge from the war offered little recompense. Similarly, studies of education and opportunity in the early twentieth century pass quickly over the war years and the 1918 Education Act to focus on the inter-war period. This article argues that an important sector of education, that of par…
History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · World War II (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · First world war (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Spanish Civil War (2 works)