Life after Joe: Politics and War in the West Midlands, 1914–1918
Cawood, Ian (2017) Life after Joe: Politics and War in the West Midlands, 1914–1918. Midland History, 42 (1). pp. 92-117. ISSN 0047-729X
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Abstract
By considering the political effects of the First World War in the whole of the West Midlands (rather than just Birmingham or the Black Country), this article seeks to demonstrate that, although the political culture of the region shifted in terms of behaviours and priorities, many of the features of the late Victorian and Edwardian regional polity survived the ‘deluge’ of war. The region became less politically homogenous, however, as the pressures of the war and the political responses to these exposed significant differences between the rural counties, the Black Country and the Birmingham conurbation. It concludes that the future political direction of Britain was by no means decided by 1918 and that the electoral results of the first fully democratic election demonstrated that there were many possible alternative choices for a population keen to cement the perceived unity of Britain which was credited for winning the longest and bloodiest struggle since the British Civil Wars.
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Midland History on 05 May 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0047729X.2017.1311519 |
| Divisions: | Faculty of of Arts, Society and Professional Studies > Department of Art and Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Jane Faux |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2017 13:43 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2018 06:10 |
| URI: | https://newman.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/15938 |
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