For king and country : the British monarchy and the First World War / Heather Jones, University College London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Heather, 1978- author.

Series:

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Windsor, House of.

World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain.

World War, 1914-1918.

Monarchy--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Monarchy.

Great Britain--Kings and rulers--History--20th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 576 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front, as well as the monarchy's role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy's revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.

Contents:

Monarchist mentalities and British mobilisation, 1914-1916

Monarchist culture and combatant practices

The royal body in wartime

De-sacralisation discourses: challenges to the monarchy's status, 1916-1918

The monarchy and the armistice: ritualising victory, channelling war grief

The monarchy's role in sacralising post-war commemoration.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Sep 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-64014-1

1-108-68296-0

1-108-55461-X

OCLC:

1285171337