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Spring: The Imperial War Graves View Online Commission

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HI1832 Their Nameth Liveth For Evermore: the Imperial War Graves Commission and the imperial war dead, 1917-1939 (78 items)

General overarching texts (3 items) You will find something of value in these texts for pretty much every week of the module.

The unending vigil: a history of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Philip Longworth, 2010 Book | Suggested for student purchase | HI832 This older format is much better than the modern reprint, which has been scanned and unfortunately chopped off the tops of some of the images! MLC

Empires of the dead: how one man's vision led to the creation of WWI's war graves - David Crane, 2014 Book | Suggested for student purchase | HI832 - a key text for this module Mark Connelly

Courage remembered: the story behind the construction and maintenance of the Commonwealth's military cemeteries and memorials of the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 - T. A. Edwin Gibson, G. Kingsley Ward, 1989 Book | HI 832 another key reference item for this module Mark Connelly

Theories of memory (4 items)

The politics of war memory and commemorations - T. G. Ashplant, Graham Dawson, Michael Roper, 2000 Book | Introduction pp. 3-85

Commemorations: the politics of national identity - John R. Gillis, 1994 Book | Thomas Lacqueur's essay is very interesting, 'Memory and Naming in the Great War' pp. 150-167.

War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century - Jay Winter, Emmanuel Sivan, 1999 Book | Chapter 1, ‘Setting the Framework’, pp. 6-39.

War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century - Jay Winter, Emmanuel Sivan, 1999 Book | Chapter 1 is worth reading for a starting point.

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Week 2/14:The situation, 1914-1918: Ware, the and the establishment and evolution of the Graves Registration and Enquiry unit.. (5 items)

The unending vigil: a history of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Philip Longworth, 2010 Book | Core (Must Read) | Core reading: pp. 1-28

Empires of the dead: how one man's vision led to the creation of WWI's war graves - David Crane, 2014 Book | Core (Must Read) | Core reading: chapters 3-4

Digitised Resource Viewer Webpage | Core (Must Read) | Core reading (see also PDF version on Moodle site)

Clearing the Dead by Peter E. Hodgkinson | the clearance and burial of the remains of British soldiers from the Great War battlefields | WWI Resource Centre Webpage | Core (Must Read) | Core reading for this week

The old front line: or the beginning of the battle of the Somme - J. Masefield, 1917 Book | Background (Could Read)

Week 3/15: The establishment of the Imperial War Graves Commission; the scope and nature of its immediate activities and the search for a mandate, 1918-1920. (4 items)

Empires of the dead: how one man's vision led to the creation of WWI's war graves - David Crane, 2014 Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 7

Bodies in conflict: corporeality, materiality, and transformation - 2014 Book | Core (Must Read) | Dominiek Dendooven, ‘“Bringing the dead home”: repatriation, illegal repatriation and expatriation of British bodies during and after the First World War’ , pp. 66-79.

Cemeteries of the Great War - Sir Lutyens, 2009 Book | Core (Must Read) | pp. 59-110 are particularly useful for this week

The unending vigil: a history of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Philip Longworth, 2010 Book | Core (Must Read) | pp. 29-81 particularly useful for this week.

Week 4/16: The Battle Exploits Memorial Committee and the question of the Missing. (9 items)

The architecture of Sir - A. S. G. Butler, George Stewart, Christopher Hussey , 1984, c1950 Book | Core (Must Read) | Section on in Vol. III.

Sir : An Edwardian Architect (Architects in perspective) - Richard F.

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Fellows Book | Core (Must Read) | Section on war memorials particularly useful

Charles Holden architect - Eitan Karol, 2007 Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter on Holden's work for IWGC and on war memorials.

Empires of the dead: how one man's vision led to the creation of WWI's war graves - David Crane, 2014 Book | Suggested for student purchase | Chapter 9

Memoirs of an Architect by Blomfield - AbeBooks Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Architecture and personalities - H. Baker, 1944 Book | Core (Must Read)

Menin Gate and Last Post - Dominiek Dendooven, 2001 Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The unending vigil: a history of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Philip Longworth, 1985 Book | Suggested for student purchase | pp. 82-106.

The memorial to the missing of the Somme - Gavin Stamp, 2016 Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 7, 78-90

Week 5/17: The project in France and Belgium, 1920-1930 and the evolution of the memorials. (14 items)

Architecture and personalities - H. Baker, 1944 Book | Core (Must Read) | pp. 88-93.

For King & Empire: Vol.X. The Newfoundlanders in the Great War, 1916-1918 - Norm Christie Book | Core (Must Read) | pp. 116-129.

“Battle and Burial”: Recapturing the Cultural Meaning of Canada Journal | Core (Must Read)

The unending vigil: a history of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Philip Longworth, 1985 Book | Suggested for student purchase | pp. 56-106.

Delville Wood and South African Great War Commemoration - Nasson, Bill Journal | Core (Must Read)

Lutyens and the Great War - Gerald Gliddon, Timothy John Skelton, 2008 Book | Core (Must Read) | pp. 106-129.

Empires of the dead: how one man's vision led to the creation of WWI's war graves - David Crane, 2014

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Book | Suggested for student purchase | Chapter 9

Charles Holden architect - Eitan Karol, 2007 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Good background reading for this week.

Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme - Gough, Paul Journal | Recommended (Should Read)

An Ideal Solution: Sculptural Politics, Canada Journal | Recommended (Should Read)

Vimy ridge memorial: Stone with a story - Scott, Jill Journal | Recommended (Should Read)

‘ Journal | Recommended (Should Read)

BUILDING AND DECORATION OF THE WAR CEMETERIES - , 1924 Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Ulster, and the Somme: war memorials and battlefield pilgrimages - Catherine Switzer, 2013 Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Week 7/19: The competing authorities on the ground and the experiences of visitors: Church Army, YMCA, Salvation Army, Ypres League. (14 items)

The Ypres League and the Commemoration of the Ypres Salient, 1914--1940 - M. Connelly, 2009-01-01 Article | Core (Must Read)

A distant grief: Australians, war graves and the Great War - Bart Ziino, 2007 Book | Core (Must Read) | pp. 163-186.

Battlefield tourism: pilgrimage and the commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919-1939 - David Wharton Lloyd, 1998 Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter Four, pp. 133-179.

War graves in Flanders - 1926-03 Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Menin Gate and Last Post: Ypres as Holy Ground - Dominiek Dendooven, Ian Connerty, 2001 Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Journey to the western front twenty years after - R. H. Mottram, 1936 Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Epic of Vimy - AbeBooks

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Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

In the Shadows of Monuments: the British League for the Reconstruction of the Devastated Areas of France - Brian S. Osborne, 2001-01 Article

The immortal salient, an historical record and complete guide for pilgrims to Ypres - William Pulteney Pulteney, Beatrix Brice, 1926 Book | Recommended (Should Read)

British popular culture and the First World War - Jessica Meyer, 2008 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | John Pegum, ‘The Old Front Line: Returning to the Battlefields in the Writings of Ex-Servicemen’, pp. 217-236

Good-bye to the battlefields: to-day and yesterday on the Western Front - Henry Archibald Taylor, , Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby Allenby, 1928 Book | Recommended (Should Read)

A Pilgrim in Picardy - B.S. Townroe Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Ypres Times (1921-1936) - HISTORISCHE KRANTEN Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Pilgrimage - Gram Seton Hutchison Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Week 8/20: Beyond the Western Front I: memorialising and commemorating in the other theatres and for other services. (5 items)

SUBALTERNS AT WAR - Michèle Barrett, 2007-11 Article | Core (Must Read)

The unending vigil: a history of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Philip Longworth, 1985 Book | Suggested for student purchase

The architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens - A. S. G. Butler, George Stewart, Christopher Hussey , 1984, c1950 Book | Core (Must Read) | War memorials section in Vol. III

Lutyens and the Great War - Gerald Gliddon, Timothy John Skelton, 2008 Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 9 'Meanwhile Abroad' is very good for this week.

The Work of Sir [1931 & 1st Edition] - 1931 Book | Core (Must Read)

Week 10/22: Beyond the Western Front II: memorialising and commemorating in the other theatres. (5 items)

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The Anzac cemetery - Bill Gammage, 2007-04 Article | Core (Must Read)

“There is no trace of him”: the Australian Red Cross, its Wounded and Missing Bureaux and the 1915 Campaign - Melanie Oppenheimer, Margrette Kleinig, 2015-09-02 Article | Core (Must Read)

Gallipoli To-day - Sir Ian ( Intro by T.J. Hamilton) Permberton Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 3, pp. 37-49.

A distant grief: Australians, war graves and the Great War - Bart Ziino, 2007 Book | Core (Must Read)

War remains: contributions of the Imperial War Graves Commission and the Australian War Records Section to material and national cultures of conflict and commemoration - William M. Taylor, 2015-04-03 Article | Background (Could Read)

Week 11/23: The contrast: Belgian, French and German commemoration on the Western Front (10 items)

From Death to Memory: The National Ossuaries in France after the Great War - Becker, Annette Journal | Core (Must Read)

Places of commemoration: search for identity and landscape design - Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, c2001 Book | Core (Must Read) | Gunar Brands, ‘From Cemeteries to the Nazi “Fortress of the Dead”: Architecture, Heroic Landscape and the Quest for National Identity in Germany’pp. 215-56.

Fallen soldiers: reshaping the memory of the world wars - George L. Mosse, 1990 Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter Five, pp. 70-106.

A-FOOTHOLD-IN-EUROPE - THE AESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF AMERICAN WAR CEMETERIES IN WESTERN-EUROPE - Robin, R Journal | Core (Must Read)

To die for Germany: heroes in the Nazi pantheon - Jay W. Baird, 1992 Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Hitler's war poets: literature and politics in the Third Reich - Jay W. Baird, 2009 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Sections on Langemarck

Amazon.co.uk: Buying Choices: War Memorials as Political Landscape: The American Experience and Beyond Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

The Great War and medieval memory: war, remembrance and medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940 - Stefan Goebel, 2007

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Book | Recommended (Should Read)

“National identity in First World War Belgian military cemeteries” - Karen D. Shelby, 2015-09-02 Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Käthe Kollwitz Journal | Recommended (Should Read)

Week 12/24: The Immortal Heritage; Architects and Personalities; Architecture and Memory: the legacies of the IWGC. (5 items)

The memorial to the missing of the Somme - Gavin Stamp, 2016 Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 8, pp. 91-108.

Harvard Design Magazine: No. 10 / What is Nature Now? Webpage | Core (Must Read) | Hélène Lipstadt, ‘Learning from Lutyens. in the age of the anti-monument’, Harvard Design Journal, Fall 1995, pp. 65-70.

Creating a temenos, positing Journal | Recommended (Should Read)

‘Contested memories: Contested site’: Newfoundland and its unique heritage on the Western Front - Paul Gough, 2007-12 Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme - Gough, Paul Gough, Paul (correspondence author) Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

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