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By 1918, more than 70,000 VADs had played a crucial part in the war effort and in a man's world, they were the perfect women, volunteers, not wanting equal pay, and not demanding a new kind of job ...
- August 1914: Writing About Emotions in Berlin↑
- Honour and Humiliation in Political Communication↑
- Chivalry Against Barbarism: Gendered Concepts of Honour and Shame↑
- POWs, Homecoming, and The End of Sacrifice↑
- Conclusion↑
On 27 August 1914, Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)wrote in her diary: “I was very moved to read that French soldiers who have been taken prisoners of war cover their faces in shame.” She was equally touched and elated when she read about acts of sympathy on the battlefield: French soldiers sparing wounded German soldiers, German soldiers marking houses ...
In July 1914, honour, shame and humiliation were established and well-known concepts within international relations. They had been taught to politicians and diplomats by university lecturers or by their seniors, and had long since been a staple in inter-state communication. Professor Heinrich von Treitschke (1836-1894)was one of the experts on mora...
Why is it, then, that European monarchs, statesmen, and politicians all referred to honour in 1914, and what exactly did they mean? Asquith’s quote of 6 August provides a clue: alluding to the 1839 treaty that bound Britain (no less than Prussia/Germany and other European nations) to safeguard Belgium’s neutrality and independence, he explicitly co...
Interestingly, the Vorwärts article started by drawing attention to POWs that had suffered the fate of “falling into our hands”. Germany had indeed taken thousands of prisoners in the early days of the war, who were interned in camps and labour battalions on German territory. Other countries followed suit, and, by the end of 1918, around 6.6 millio...
Throughout the war and until its very end, questions of honour, shame, and sacrifice were thus hotly debated. Serving as powerful leitmotivs of national imagination and sensibility, they gave orientation in a war that strained people’s endurance to a degree unknown prior to 1914. Propagandadefinitely had its share in mapping individual and collecti...
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The Debates in Historiography ↑. Both contemporary narratives and historiography at least until the 1980s have emphasized the idea that World War I was a watershed in gender relations in European societies: women had given their services to the nation and had been rewarded with the vote in several countries; the war thus represented the dawn of a new era.
Welcome. This is the website of the ‘Blaenau Gwent in the First World War Research Project’ and part of the Gwent Heritage network of community archives. Here you can browse through our collection of historical material, which includes photos, documents and the stories of the experience of Blaenau Gwent and its people during the First World ...
The First World War was played out on two very gendered fronts: the battle front was almost exclusively masculine and the home front was largely feminine. The mobilisation of women followed two parallel movements. One was voluntary and spontaneous, emanating from the women themselves, and won the approval of the authorities and French society ...
The Debate over Intervention. When war broke out in Europe, the United States immediately declared its neutrality. President Woodrow Wilson stated that America must be “impartial in thought as well as in action.”. For a century, the U.S. had stayed out of European affairs. Most Americans preferred to continue this policy.
Jul 29, 2014 · “World War One was not history’s only recorded ‘Great War’.” (Originally published in September, 2013) THIS COMING SUMMER, the world marks a grim milestone – the 100 th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. The four-year conflict, which was fought between 1914 and 1918, was like no other war in history up to that point.
