T HE E DINBURGH C OMPANION TO THE F IRST W ORLD W AR AND THE A RTS
T HE E DINBURGH C OMPANION TO THE F IRST W ORLD W AR AND THE A RTS
E DITED BY A NN -M ARIE E INHAUS AND K ATHERINE I SOBEL B AXTER
EDINBURGH
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editorial matter and organisation Ann-Marie Einhaus and Katherine Isobel Baxter, 2017
the chapters their several authors, 2017
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Miriam (Ruth Mackay): Whatever have you found? Brent (Dennis Eadie): A wireless up the chimney. Still from The Man Who Stayed at Home, Royalty Theatre London, December 1914. Authors collection. |
Journeys End, Savoy Theatre, January 1929, with Colin Clive (Captain Dennis Stanhope) and Maurice Evans (Lieutenant James Raleigh). Reproduced courtesy of Surrey History Centre. |
Advertisement for the Onoto Pen, The Times, 6 December 1915, p. 4. Private collection. Reproduced courtesy of Andrew McCarthy. |
Advertisement for the Swan Fount Pen, Land & Water, 10 August 1916, p. xxv. Private collection. Reproduced courtesy of Andrew McCarthy. |
Advertisement for the Swan Fount Pen, Punchs Almanack for 1915, late 1914 (n.p.). Private collection. Reproduced courtesy of Andrew McCarthy. |
Thompson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images, The dedication of Cookham War Memorial in Berkshire or War Veterans (21 September 1919), photograph, Hulton Archive no. 3163936, Thompson/Stringer. Reproduced courtesy of Getty Images. |
Will Longstaff, Menin Gate at Midnight (or The Ghosts of Menin Gate) (1927), oil on canvas, 137 270 cm. Australian War Memorial (ART09807). Reproduced courtesy of Australian War Memorial, Canberra. |
Sren Hawkes, Ghost Soldier at the Menin Gate Viewing Tributes (2015), watercolour and pencil on paper, 29.7 42 cm. Sren Hawkes. Reproduced courtesy of the artist. |
Photograph of historical postcard of the Trench of Bayonets at Verdun. Authors collection. |
Photograph of the Arengo at the Vittoriale on Lake Garda. The Estate of Gabriele d Annunzio. Reproduced courtesy of Fondazione Il Vittoriale degli Italiani Archivio Iconografico. |
Image from Augusto Tognasso, Ignoto Militi (Milan: Association of Mutilated Veterans, 1922). The caption reads: ... Una rozza croce, nascosta da una piccola parete di roccia, indic lesistenza della salma di un prode ... (a rough cross, hidden by a small wall of rocks, indicated the existence of a valiant soldiers remains). Reproduced courtesy of Stanford University Library. |
David Wilson, Once a German Always a German (1918). IWM (Q 81147). Reproduced courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. |
John Hassall, Music in War-Time (1915). Poster designed for the Professional Classes War Relief Council, lithograph on paper. IWM (Art.IWM PST 8096). Reproduced courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. |
R. S. S. Baden-Powell, Are You in This? (1915). Poster designed for the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, lithograph on paper. IWM (Art.IWM PST 2712). Reproduced courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. |
Bovril advert from The Times (19 October 1916). Reproduced courtesy of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne. |
Dunlop Nationality car advert from TheBystander (13 October 1915). Reproduced courtesy of the British Library. |
Cover of the original sheet music for Paul A. Rubens, Your King and Country Want You (1914), cover design by John Hassall, Chromolithograph. The Estate of John Hassall. Reproduced courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (S.4142013). |
The relative changes in numbers of periodicals, as a total, and by the seven most numerous categories, from 1914 levels. |
Film still from the re-enacted sequence at the start of part three of The Battle of the Somme (1916), preceded by title 31: THE ATTACK. AT A SIGNAL, ALONG THE ENTIRE 16 MILE FRONT, THE BRITISH TROOPS LEAPED OVER THE TRENCH PARAPETS AND ADVANCED TOWARDS THE GERMAN TRENCHES, UNDER HEAVY FIRE OF THE ENEMY. IWM (Q 70169). Reproduced courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. |
Film still from The Battle of the Somme (1916). A British soldier carries a wounded comrade along a trench. IWM (Q 79501). Reproduced courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. |
Film poster for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, dir. Lewis Milestone). Authors collection. |
Film poster for Gallipoli (1981, dir. Peter Weir). Authors collection. |
Page from Womens War Work in Maintaining the Industries and Export Trade of the United Kingdom: Information Officially Compiled for the Use of Recruiting Officers, Military Representatives and Tribunals (London: HMSO, 1916). Reproduced courtesy of Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections. |
Oblique of Vieux Berquin, a village near Merville, from the west May 1918. It shows Ankle Farm and the Factory in the bottom left hand corner. Durham University Special Collections, WDL/G/20. Reproduced by permission of Durham University Library. |
Vertical of the area slightly to the west of , June 1918. Ankle Farm and the Factory are at top right. Both photographs were probably used in the planning of a small and very successful night-time operation on 2829 June 1918, in which 93 Brigade, 31st Division took both Ankle Farm and the Factory. I thank Alastair Fraser for supplying this information. Durham University Special Collections, WDL/G/21. Reproduced by permission of Durham University Library. |
The IWMs display at Crystal Palace 19204. IWM (Q 31451). Reproduced courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. |
A soldiers personal equipment on display at Crystal Palace. IWM (Q 30217). Reproduced courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. |
Soldiers charms, part of the IWMs collections on display at Crystal Palace. IWM (Q 30177). Reproduced courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. |
Cast of Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Ubisoft (2014), Emile, Anna, Freddie, Walt, Karl (left to right). Ubisoft Entertainment. All rights reserved. |
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