1st Edition
Veterans of the First World War Ex-Servicemen and Ex-Servicewomen in Post-War Britain and Ireland
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
Biography
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
