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Roll of Honour: Schooling & The Great War, 1914–1919 Kindle Edition

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The Great War was the first 'Total War'; a war in which human and material resources were pitched into a life-and-death struggle on a colossal scale. British citizens fought on both the Battle Fronts and on the Home Front, on the killing fields of France and Flanders as well as in the industrial workshops of 'Blighty'. Men, women and children all played their part in an unprecedented mobilisation of a nation at war. Unlike much of the traditional literature on the Great War, with its understandable fascination with the terrible experiences of 'Tommy in the Trenches', Roll of Honour shifts our gaze. It focuses on how the Great War was experienced by other key participants, namely those communities involved in 'schooling' the nation's children. It emphasises the need to examine the 'myriad faces of war', rather than traditional stereotypes, if we are to gain a deeper understanding of personal agency and decision making in times of conflict and upheaval. The dramatis personae in Roll of Honour include Head Teachers and Governors charged by the Government with mobilising their 'troops'; school masters, whose enlistment, conscription or conscientious objection to military service changed lives and career paths; the 'temporary' school mistresses who sought to demonstrate their 'interchangeability' in male dominated institutions; the school alumni who thought of school whilst knee-deep in mud; and finally, of course, the school children themselves, whose 'campaigns' added vital resources to the war economy. These 'myriad faces' existed in all types of British school, from the elite Public Schools to the elementary schools designed for the country's poorest waifs and strays. This powerful account of the Great War will be of interest to general readers as well as historians of military campaigns, education and British society.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01A7K80TA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Military (October 30, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 30, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 36.3 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 468 pages
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  • OxonMA
    5.0 out of 5 stars Superb exploration of the subject
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2016
    This is a superb book based on meticulous research and boasting an impressive range of evidence. What is most welcome about this book is that it widens the scope of its enquiry from the usual focus of the public schools and their now familiar stories (well dealt with in individual school accounts and in Seldon and Walsh's book on the subject) and included a large amount on the schools attended by the bulk of the population. We have long been told that state schools did not have the records to support such a study, but this book shows this conclusively not to be the case. Dr Blades demonstrates the impact of the war on the schools and on the communities from which they came. I am already looking forward to the next book in Dr Blades' series.

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