Introduction
The City, East London and metropolitan Essex
War shrines: the origins of the war memorials movement
War memorials in places of worship: seeking solace in religion
The alternative bonds of community: war memorials in placesof work,
schools, colleges and clubs
Civic war memorials: public pride and private grief
Laying the foundations, 1919-1921
The years rich in imagery, 1922-1929
The years of flux, 1930-1935
Into battle, 1936-1939
The East End Jewish ex-service movement
Epilogue
Bibliography
Professor of Modern British Military History, University of Kent
Local historians will relish the way contrasting case studies are
developed as a powerful means of analysis, using an array of
sources including newspapers, council records, church, school,
business and hospital archives, parish and political magazines and
pamphlets, memoirs and oral histories, photos and war memorials..A
provocative and important book.it remains a valuable read.
*FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY*
A very good and very readable detailed case study.
*ARMCHAIR AUCTIONS*
The war memorials of the 1914-1918 war are to be found everywhere
in the British Isles [.] Through the meticulous scholarship of Mark
Connelly, we can once again hear the voices of those who created
them.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*
A deep knowledge of memoirs, newspaper files, and local archives
enables Connelly to show the communitarian codes that underlay the
war memorial movement as well as the conflicts and divisions these
activities occasioned.
*ALBION*
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