This article investigates the affective motives for remembrance among British and German descendants of men and women who served in the First World War. Based on observations of a First World War ...centenary project funded by the Heritage Lottery and hosted in Bavaria in early 2016 by the London-based reminiscence organization Age Exchange, it asks why people are drawn to research the First World War pasts of their ancestors and how their historical pursuits connect personal experience to public commemoration in the two countries. It develops an understanding of legacy as operating across time in two directions: backwards from contemporary preoccupations to the First World War, and forwards across generations, from the survivors and their descendants to the present.
Sir Edwin Lutyens created the national shrine to the war's losses and, a few years later, a dolls' house gifted by a 'grateful nation' to Queen Mary; the legacies that coalesced in the Cenotaph are ...also present in the miniature project. Connections with the war are evident in the tiny contents contributed by veterans and in the ambitions that led to its creation as a paradigm of 'Englishness'. It was a post-war reassertion of domestic and private worlds, the embodiment of a past that the war had almost destroyed, a private place displayed for public consumption and an invitation to delight in the imaginative complexity of the miniature.
This article uses a diary kept by a First World War soldier, Vince Schürhoff, to explore the British Army's food culture. It examines his journey through seven food contexts, the evolution of his ...cooking and consumption, and interaction with French food culture. This microhistory of everyday life demonstrates the centrality of food in the men's lives both emotionally and socially as well as physiologically. Additionally, it provides valuable insights into the relationships that formed around eating between the soldiers themselves and also with civilian providers. His rich account confirms the role of food as a key factor in the men's expression of the sometimes-shocking differences between military and civilian worlds.
Afterlives of war documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain and Germany after the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to ...the conflict, they experienced its effects from their earliest years. Based on ninety oral history interviews and observation during the First World War Centenary, this pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War, and the intimate personal legacies of the conflict that animate their history-making.
Making Histories Duffett, Rachel; Roper, Michael
The Public historian,
02/2018, Letnik:
40, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article reflects upon a Heritage Lottery–funded project devised by Britain’s leading practitioner of reminiscence arts, Age Exchange. “Meeting in No Man’s Land” explored the different family ...legacies of the First World War by bringing together the British and German descendants of its veterans. The project process had many similarities to the practice of oral history, but there were also significant differences. This article considers the shared territory of the two methodologies while at the same time acknowledging the uniqueness of Age Exchange’s approach to the making of histories.
Making Histories Duffett, Rachel; Roper, Michael
The Public historian,
02/2018, Letnik:
40, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
This article reflects upon a Heritage Lottery–funded project devised by Britain’s leading practitioner of reminiscence arts, Age Exchange. “Meeting in No Man’s Land” explored the different family ...legacies of the First World War by bringing together the British and German descendants of its veterans.1 The project process had many similarities to the practice of oral history, but there were also significant differences. This article considers the shared territory of the two methodologies while at the same time acknowledging the uniqueness of Age Exchange’s approach to the making of histories.
A Taste of Army Life Duffett, Rachel
Cultural and social history,
20/6/1/, Letnik:
9, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Food and military identity were inextricably linked in the British Army: rations were a thrice daily indicator of the men's separation from their civilian selves. The soldiers were what they ate, but ...they were also where and how they ate; the grubby rapacity of the barrack dining hall, the absence of civilizing cutlery and the unfamiliar food delineated their new role as clearly as any uniform. Institutional feeding facilitated the erasure of self, an unhelpful attribute in the military world. Men's accounts indicate the conflict between their appetites and what they all too often regarded as oppression in a dietary form.
A Taste of Army Life Duffett, Rachel
Cultural and social history,
06/2012, Letnik:
9, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Food and military identity were inextricably linked in the British Army: rations were a thrice daily indicator of the men's separation from their civilian selves. The soldiers were what they ate, but ...they were also where and how they ate; the grubby rapacity of the barrack dining hall, the absence of civilizing cutlery and the unfamiliar food delineated their new role as clearly as any uniform. Institutional feeding facilitated the erasure of self, an unhelpful attribute in the military world. Men's accounts indicate the conflict between their appetites and what they all too often regarded as oppression in a dietary form.
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