Table of Contents

Introduction
The City, East London and metropolitan Essex
War shrines: the origins of the war memorials movement
War memorials in places of worship: seeking solace in religion
The alternative bonds of community: war memorials in placesof work, schools, colleges and clubs
Civic war memorials: public pride and private grief
Laying the foundations, 1919-1921
The years rich in imagery, 1922-1929
The years of flux, 1930-1935
Into battle, 1936-1939
The East End Jewish ex-service movement
Epilogue
Bibliography

About the Author

Professor of Modern British Military History, University of Kent

Reviews

Local historians will relish the way contrasting case studies are developed as a powerful means of analysis, using an array of sources including newspapers, council records, church, school, business and hospital archives, parish and political magazines and pamphlets, memoirs and oral histories, photos and war memorials..A provocative and important book.it remains a valuable read.
*FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY*

A very good and very readable detailed case study.
*ARMCHAIR AUCTIONS*

The war memorials of the 1914-1918 war are to be found everywhere in the British Isles [.] Through the meticulous scholarship of Mark Connelly, we can once again hear the voices of those who created them.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*

A deep knowledge of memoirs, newspaper files, and local archives enables Connelly to show the communitarian codes that underlay the war memorial movement as well as the conflicts and divisions these activities occasioned.
*ALBION*