Restoring Victory
Naval Heritage, Identity, and Memory in Interwar Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12239147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Don Leggett (Nazarbayev University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | hww060-hww060 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Twentieth Century British History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-2359 • E-ISSN: 1477-4674 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/tcbh/hww060 |
| PMID | 28922799 |
| OpenAlex | W2566199448 |
| Language | EN |
In the decade following 1918, HMS Victory was restored as a memorial to the nation, empire, the Navy, and all the sailors who had lost their lives in the Great War. This piece of Britain's naval heritage became a focal point for Great War memory and a resource for narrating the Navy's place in post-war Britain. This article analyses the restoration campaign, focusing on its appeal work and the materials it produced, discourses surrounding the restoration and the use of Victory's oak to recover this ship's importance at the intersection between Britain and its Navy in the aftermath of the Great War, and the function that the Navy played in the construction of post-war memory and identity
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Battle · Empire · Identity (music · Navy · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · Victory · World War II · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |