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Introduction: Untold Legacies of the First World War in Britain

The current centenary of the First World War provides an unrivalled opportunity to uncover some of the social legacies of the war. The four articles which make up this special issue each examine a different facet of the war’s impact on British society to explore an as yet untold story. The subjects...

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Autores principales: Fell, Alison S., Meyer, Jessica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Routledge 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27453628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0729247314Z.00000000048
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spelling pubmed-49363782016-07-21 Introduction: Untold Legacies of the First World War in Britain Fell, Alison S. Meyer, Jessica War Soc Introduction The current centenary of the First World War provides an unrivalled opportunity to uncover some of the social legacies of the war. The four articles which make up this special issue each examine a different facet of the war’s impact on British society to explore an as yet untold story. The subjects investigated include logistics, the history of science, the social history of medicine and resistance to war. This article introduces the four which follow, locating them in the wider historiographic debates around the interface between warfare and societies engaged in war. Routledge 2015-05-01 2015-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4936378/ /pubmed/27453628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0729247314Z.00000000048 Text en © 2015 School of Humanities & Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ MORE OpenChoice articles are open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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