MEMORY AND MEMORIALS
Modern Economic and Social History Series
General Editor: Derek H. Aldcroft
Titles in this series include
Studies in the Interwar European Economy
Derek H. Aldcroft
Whatever Happened to Monetarism?
Economic Policy-Making and Social Learning
in the United Kingdom since 1979
Michael J. Oliver
Disillusionment or New Opportunities?
The Changing Nature of Work in Offices, Glasgow 18801914
R. Guerriero Wilson
Raleigh and the British Bicycle Industry:
An Economic and Business History, 18701960
Roger Lloyd-Jones and M.J. Lewis
Battles for the Standard:
Bimetallism and the Spread of the Gold Standard
in the Nineteenth Century
Edward R. Wilson
Trade Unions and the Economy: 18702000
Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver
Exchange Rates and Economic Policy in the 20th Century
edited by Ross E. Catterall and Derek H. Aldcroft
Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 19001950
Alan Fowler
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Memory and memorials: the commemorative century
1.War memorials History 20th century 2.War and society 3.Memory Social aspects 4.Monuments Social aspects 5. Historiography Social Aspects
6.Memory Social aspects France 7.Monuments Social aspects France
8.Historiography Social aspects France 9.World War, 19141918 Monuments
I.Kidd, William, 1944 II.Murdoch, Brian, 1944
303.66
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Memory and memorials: the commemorative century / edited by William Kidd and Brian Murdoch.
p. cm.
Based on the Stirling War and Memory conference held at the University of Stirling on March 1819, 2000.
Includes bibliographic references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-0735-6
1. War memorials Congresses. 2. Memory Congresses. 3. War and society Congresses. 4. World War, 19141918 Memorials Congresses. 5. World War, 19391945 Memorials Congresses. I. Kidd, William, 1944 II. Murdoch, Brian.
D663.M46 2004
355.16dc22
2003063998
ISBN 9780754607359 (hbk)
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Jonathan Black taught twentieth-century art history at the Department of Fine Art, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne until July 2002. His publications include work on C.R.W. Nevinson (Imperial War Museum, 1999) and The Sculpture of Eric Kennington (Lund Humphries, 2002). He recently completed a PhD for University College, London on the image of the British soldier in official First World War art. Forthcoming in 2004: Masculinity, the problematics of Englishness and the image of the ordinary soldier in British war art c. 191526 in Relocating Britishness, ed. Susan Burnett, Stephen Caunce, Eva Mazierska and John Walton, Manchester University Press.
Angus Calder has taught in several African universities and in the Open University. Since publishing The Peoples War: Britain 19391945 in 1969, he has written extensively about social and cultural aspects of warfare. Since taking early retirement in 1993, he extended his interests into military history, as exemplified in his Penguin anthology Wars (1999). He freelances as a writer in Edinburgh. His next book, from Luath, will be a collection of essays, Scotlands of the Mind.
Hanna Diamond is Senior Lecturer in French History and European Studies at the University of Bath. Her research interests are in womens history, memory, identity, and the use of oral history. Her publications include Women and the Second World War in France 19391948: Choices and constraints (Pearson, 1999). She is currently conducting a research project on the history of mining communities in the south of France.
Alastair Duncan is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Stirling. He has published on Flaubert and Mauriac, Butor, Robbe-Grillet and Sarraute, as well as on advertising in France. Co-editor with Professor Jean Duffy of Claude Simon: a Retrospective (Liverpool University Press, 2002), he is editor of the works of Simon for the Gallimard Pliade series and recently published an updated version of his 1994 monograph Claude Simon: Adventures in Words (MUP, 2003). He is currently working on theories and representations of the comic in France in the 20th century.
Hilary Footitt writes on language and the creation of community, most recently in Women, Europe and the New Languages of Politics (2002). She is currently Hon. Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, working on a project about transnational communities at the Liberation of France. Her book, France 1944: Living with the Liberators, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004.
Hugo Frey is Senior Lecturer in History at University College, Chichester. He is the author of the recent monograph, Louis Malle (Manchester: MUP, 2004).
Claire Gorrara is Senior Lecturer in French in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University. She has published widely on representations of the Second World War in French literature and culture, including