The collection offers updates to existing scholarship while bringing new departures and challenges to the current interpretive frameworks of veteran experiences in post-war Britain and Ireland.
The collection offers updates to existing scholarship while bringing new departures and challenges to the current interpretive frameworks of veteran experiences in post-war Britain and Ireland.
David Swift is the Kreitman Postdoctoral Fellow at Ben Gurion University of the Negev Oliver Wilkinson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton
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List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction British Veterans after the First World War David Swift & Oliver Wilkinson Chapter 1. The Deep Roots of The British Legion: The Emergence of First World War British Veterans' Organisations Mike Hally Chapter 2. Ex-servicemen and the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, 1919-21 Paul Huddie Chapter 3. Between Workers and Soldiers: The Relationship between the Labour Party and Ex-servicemen after the First World War Marcus Morris Chapter 4. 'A Fighting Man and a Thinking Man': The British Left, Ex-Servicemen, and Working-Class Culture, 1914-1924 David Swift Chapter 5. Revolution, Ex-Servicemen, and the Cork Branch of the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Sailors and Soldiers, 1918-21 John Borgonovo Chapter 6. 'It's up to you now to fight for your own country': Ireland's Great War Veterans in the War of Independence, 1919-21 Steven O'Connor Chapter 7. 'Still in the Ranks of the Old Corps, Though Not on Active Service': Women's Veteran Organisations in Interwar Britain. Krisztina Robert Chapter 8. Paternalism and Prosthetics: Life for Disabled Veterans and Their Families on a Post-War Settlement Martin Purdy Chapter 9. Wounded in a Mentionable Place: The (In)visibility of the Disabled Ex-serviceman in Inter-war Britain Jessica Meyer Chapter 10. Ex-Prisoners of War, 1914-18: Veteran Association, Assimilation and Disassociation After the First World War Oliver Wilkinson Bibliography Index
List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction British Veterans after the First World War David Swift & Oliver Wilkinson Chapter 1. The Deep Roots of The British Legion: The Emergence of First World War British Veterans' Organisations Mike Hally Chapter 2. Ex-servicemen and the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, 1919-21 Paul Huddie Chapter 3. Between Workers and Soldiers: The Relationship between the Labour Party and Ex-servicemen after the First World War Marcus Morris Chapter 4. 'A Fighting Man and a Thinking Man': The British Left, Ex-Servicemen, and Working-Class Culture, 1914-1924 David Swift Chapter 5. Revolution, Ex-Servicemen, and the Cork Branch of the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Sailors and Soldiers, 1918-21 John Borgonovo Chapter 6. 'It's up to you now to fight for your own country': Ireland's Great War Veterans in the War of Independence, 1919-21 Steven O'Connor Chapter 7. 'Still in the Ranks of the Old Corps, Though Not on Active Service': Women's Veteran Organisations in Interwar Britain. Krisztina Robert Chapter 8. Paternalism and Prosthetics: Life for Disabled Veterans and Their Families on a Post-War Settlement Martin Purdy Chapter 9. Wounded in a Mentionable Place: The (In)visibility of the Disabled Ex-serviceman in Inter-war Britain Jessica Meyer Chapter 10. Ex-Prisoners of War, 1914-18: Veteran Association, Assimilation and Disassociation After the First World War Oliver Wilkinson Bibliography Index
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