Britishness and Commemoration

National Memorials to the First World War in Britain and Ireland

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10074920
AutoresJenny Macleod (0000-0001-5277-7063, University of Hull, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume48
Fascículo4
Páginas647-665
Data de publicação2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022009413493940
OpenAlexW2123548369
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas9

The 1917 call for a national memorial to the First World War led to the establishment of the Imperial War Museum in London. It also inspired Scottish, Welsh and Irish national memorials. No English national memorial was ever proposed; instead the Cenotaph and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were conceived as imperial memorials. The new statelet of Northern Ireland did not commemorate its overall war effort within its own territory. This article surveys the organization, location and design of the Scottish, Welsh and Irish national war memorials to the First World War. It examines some aspects of the complex set of relationships between the local, regional, national and imperial layers of identity that are inherent in Britishness. In doing so it reveals the confused and contested nature of national identity in the United Kingdom at the close of the First World War

Ancient history · Archaeology · Britishness · Economic history · First world war · Genealogy · Irish · National identity · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · Welsh · World War II · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Irish and British Studies · Law