To our brothers : memorials to a lost generation in British schools
Wearne, Sarah2018
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This work shows how a nation not noted for its ability to express emotion, managed to convey its grief, love and pride for some of the thousands of its young men who were killed during the First World War. Schools had a peculiarly intense relationship with their dead, especially boarding schools. Most of them were much smaller than they are today, pupils spent more time there, and some boys, whose parents lived abroad, even remained at school during the holidays. Many boys went straight from school into the services and were dead within a year. The book shows how schools used the language of Britain's past, its cultural heritage - history, religion, customs, art, architecture, literature and myth - to articulate their emotions, to make their memorials speak.
Main title:
To our brothers : memorials to a lost generation in British schools / Sarah Wearne, James Kerr.
Author:
Wearne, Sarah, authorKerr, James (Photographer), photographer
Imprint:
Solihull, West Midlands : Helion & Company Limited, 2018.
Collation:
216 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9781911628255 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.46541
Local class:
qL726.8
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2743982
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