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Author : Peter Cahalan
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051391186
Author : Jacqueline Jenkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351585248
Around 250,000 Belgian refugees who fled the German invasion spent the First World War in Britain – the largest refugee presence Britain has ever witnessed. Welcomed in a wave of humanitarian sympathy for ‘Poor Little Belgium’, within a few months Belgian exiles were pushed off the front pages of newspapers by the news of direct British involvement in the war. Following rapid repatriation at British government expense in late 1918 and 1919 Belgian refugees were soon lost from public memory with few memorials or markers of their mass presence. Reactions to Belgian refugees discussed in this book include the mixed responses of local populations to the refugee presence, which ranged from extensive charitable efforts to public and trade union protests aimed at protecting local jobs and housing. This book also explores the roles of central and local government agencies which supported and employed Belgian refugees en masse yet also used them as a propaganda tool to publicise German outrages against civilians to encourage support for the Allied war effort. This book covers responses to Belgian refugees in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales in a Home Front wartime episode which generated intense public interest and charitable and government action. This book was originally published as a special issue of Immigrants and Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora.
Author : Bruno Cabanes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020627
Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.
Author : Felicity Rash,Christophe Declercq
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319731087
This book addresses the many avenues that are still left unexplored when it comes to our understanding of the First World War in the Low Countries. With the ongoing the centenary of the Great War, many events have been organized in the United Kingdom to commemorate its military events, its socio-political consequences, and its cultural legacy. Of these events, very few have paid attention to the fates of Belgium or the Netherlands, even though it was the invasion of Belgium in August 1914 that was the catalyst for Great Britain declaring war. The occupation of Belgium had long-term consequences for its people, but much of the military and social history of the Western Front concentrates on northern France, and the Netherlands is largely forgotten as a nation affected by the First World War. By opening the field beyond the military and beyond the front, this collection explores the interdisciplinary and international nature of the Great War.
Author : Jordanna Bailkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198814214
Over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of displaced people from across the globe. Unsettled explores the hidden world of these camps and traces the complicated relationships that emerged between refugees and citizens.
Author : Mrs. Brian Luck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Cooking
ISBN : HARVARD:32044087470670
Author : Catriona Pennell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199590582
In this, the first fully documented study of British and Irish popular reactions to the outbreak of the First World War, Catriona Pennell explores UK public opinion of the time and successfully challenges the myth of British 'war enthusiasm'. A Kingdom United explores what people felt, and how they acted, in response to an unanticipated and unprecedented crisis. It is a history of both ordinary people and elite figures in extraordinary times. Dr Pennell demonstrates that describing the reactions of over 40 million British and Irish people to the outbreak of war as either enthusiastic in the British case, or disengaged in the Irish, is over-simplified and inadequate. Emotional reactions to the war were ambiguous and complex, and changed over time. By the end of 1914 the populations of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland had largely embraced the war, but the war had also embraced them and showed no signs of relinquishing its grip. The five months from August to December 1914 set the shape of much that was to follow. A Kingdom United describes and explains that twenty-week formative process. Pennell draws from a vast array of diaries, letters, journals, and newspaper accounts by the very people who experienced the war in its first dramatic five months. She outlines the variety of responses felt amongst both the ordinary people and elite figures from across the country.
Author : Katherine Storr
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 3039118552
"This study reveals women's hitherto ignored lives as refugees and relief workers during the First World War and shortly after. The focus is on coping with and changing the devastating effects of war on civilians, rather than the fighting of it ... The connection between these women in humanitarian relief is explored, together with the significance of imperialism and national identity. Experience of charity work, suffrage campaigning, relief in previous wars, and personal friendship networks were all important. A geographical overview of these wartime activities provides insight into European civilian experience. The ideological and historical roots of relief work are traced and connections are made with the establishment of new NGOs and the League of Nations"--Jacket.
Author : Nicole Dombrowski Risser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025325
A social, military and political history of the French refugee crisis tracing the impact of government responses upon civilian lives.
Author : Jacqueline Jenkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000050790
Following the First World War and in actions that challenged Britain’s reputation as a liberal democracy, various government departments implemented policies of mass repatriation from Britain of populations of colonial and friendly migrants and refugees. Many of those repatriated had played a significant part in the war effort and had given valuable service in the combat zones and on the home front: serving in the armed forces, in labour battalions and employed in key wartime industries, such as munitions work, the merchant navy and wartime construction. This book sets out to uncover why central government decided to implement a policy of repatriation of "friendly" peoples after the war. It also explores the imposition of wartime and post-war legal restrictions on these groups as part of a major shift in policy towards reducing the settlement and limiting the employment of overseas populations in Britain.
Author : Jill Rutter
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447314615
The question of immigration is a perennial hot topic in politics around the world. What gets far less attention is what happens to immigrants after their arrival—how they integrate into their newly chosen societies. This book draws on fieldwork in London and eastern England, analyzing and critiquing the effectiveness of recent policies that aim to promote integration and social cohesion. Successful management of immigration, Jill Rutter argues, requires a greater emphasis on the social aspects of integration and opportunities for meaningful social interactions between migrants and long-settled residents, particularly in workplaces.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : BML:37001104506956
Author : Peter Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134500314
This book challenges scholarship which presents charity and voluntary activity during World War I as marking a downturn from the high point of the late Victorian period. Charitable donations rose to an all-time peak, and the scope and nature of charitable work shifted decisively. Far more working class activists, especially women, became involved, although there were significant differences between the suburban south and industrial north of England and Scotland. The book also corrects the idea that charitably-minded civilians’ efforts alienated the men at the front, in contrast to the degree of negativity that surrounds much previous work on voluntary action in this period. Far from there being an unbridgeable gap in understanding or empathy between soldiers and civilians, the links were strong, and charitable contributions were enormously important in maintaining troop morale. This bond significantly contributed to the development and maintenance of social capital in Britain, which, in turn, strongly supported the war effort. This work draws on previously unused primary sources, notably those regarding the developing role of the UK’s Director General of Voluntary Organizations and the regulatory legislation of the period.
Author : Hew Strachan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009027441
The First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. The phrase 'home front' was itself a product of the war with parts of Britain literally a war front, coming under enemy attack from the sea and increasingly the air. However, the home front also conveyed the war's impact on almost every aspect of British life, economic, social and domestic. In the fullest account to-date, leading historians show how the war blurred the division between what was military and not, and how it made many conscious of their national identities for the first time. They reveal how its impact changed Britain for ever, transforming the monarchy, promoting systematic cabinet government, and prompting state intervention in a country which prided itself on its liberalism and its support for free trade. In many respects we still live with the consequences.
Author : Jaclyn Granick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495028
The untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands.