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Reflections on the Commemoration of the First World War: Perspectives from the Former British Empire book cover

1st Edition

Reflections on the Commemoration of the First World War Perspectives from the Former British Empire

Edited By David Monger, Sarah Murray Copyright 2021
182 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The First World War’s centenary generated a mass of commemorative activity worldwide. Officially and unofficially; individually, collectively and commercially; locally, nationally and internationally, efforts were made to respond to the legacies of this vast conflict. This book explores some of these responses from areas previously tied to the British Empire, including Australia, Britain, Canada,... Read more

Introduction: Assessing the Centenary of the First World War

David Monger and Sarah Murray

Part I: Commemoration and the Centenary in Perspective

1. Colonial Commemoration in a Time of Multiculturalism: South Asia and the First World War

Santanu Das

2. Resurrecting Heroes … or Reinventing Them? Interpretations of the Heroic in Australian First World War Centenary Commemorations

Bryce Abraham

3. The First Time he Felt Truly Australian: Anzac Sport and Australian Nationalism, 1995 – Today

Xavier Fowler

4: ‘Our War’: National Memory, New Zealand and Te Papa’s Gallipoli

Rowan Light

Part II: The Centenary in Practice

5. Voicing War: Canadian Soldiers’ Oral Culture during and after the First World War

Tim Cook

6. New Zealand’s War in the Air: A Centenary Exhibition in Review

Louisa Hormann

7. Uncovering the Hidden Stories of the Voices Against War in a New Zealand Province

Margaret Lovell-Smith

8. Reclaiming Salute to Valour: The Official Canadian Film of the Pilgrimage to the Vimy Monument

Sarah Cook

Biography

David Monger is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is the author of Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale, co-editor of Endurance and the First World War: Experiences and Legacies in New Zealand and Australia and has written several articles on aspects of First World War history.

Sarah Murray is Curatorial Manager at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. She specialises in the history of the First World War and public history. Sarah is the author of A Cartoon War: The Cartoons of the New Zealand Free Lance and New Zealand Observer as Historical Sources, August 1914–November 1918, co-editor of Endurance and the First World War: Experiences and Legacies in New Zealand and Australia and has both published articles and curated exhibitions on the First World War.

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