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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Tables and Map -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: England in 1886 -- 1. Nationalism and Nationality -- 1. English and 'Celts' -- 2. Foreign Immigration -- 3. The English Exodus -- 4. 'Our Kith and Kin' -- 5. Foreigners -- 6. The Empire and 'Race' -- 7. Schooling and Patriotism -- 8. Conclusion -- 2. Generation and Gender -- 1. The Young -- 2. The Position of Women -- 3. Gender Roles -- 4. Sexual Mores -- 5. Votes for Women -- 6. Conclusion -- 3. Social Identities: Class, Community, and the Masses -- 1. Locality -- 2. Vertical Stratification: Occupation -- 3. Horizontal Stratification: Class -- 4. Religion and Culture -- 5. The Rise of Mass Society -- 6. Status Hierarchies -- 7. Conclusion -- 4. Governance and Politics -- 1. Uniting the United Kingdom -- 2. Governance -- 3. A Ruling Class? -- 4. The Electoral System -- 5. The Shaping of Party Allegiance -- 6. Party and Its Critics -- Part II: Late Victorian England 1886-1899 -- 5. Home Rule and the Politics of Unionism -- 1. The Aftermath of the Home Rule Crisis -- 2. Salisbury and the Unionist Alliance, 1886-1892 -- 3. The Liberals in Office, 1892-1895 -- 4. The Disappearance of the Irish Question? -- 6. the Social Question: Conflict and Stability, 1886-1899 -- 1. The Crisis of the 1880s -- 2. Agricultural Depression and Rural Society -- 3. Industrial Unrest and the 'New Unionism' -- 4. The March of Progress? -- 5. The Social Explorers and the 'People of the Abyss' -- 6. The Making of Social Policy -- 7. Politics and the Social Question, 1886-1899 -- 1. The Salisbury Government, 1886-1892 -- 2. The Liberal Ministries, 1892-1895 -- 3. The Unionists After 1895 -- 4. Local Politics in Late Victorian Britain -- 5. Popular Politics and the Rise of Labour.
8. Uneasy Dominion: Britain Under Challenge, 1886-1899 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overseas Trade and Investment -- 3. A Great Power in Retreat? -- 4. The Problem of Imperial Defence -- 5. Modernizing the Army -- 6. Salisbury and the Foreign Office -- 7. Egypt Secured -- 8. Prelude to the Second Boer War -- 9. The Boer War, 1899-1902 -- 1. Pyrrhic Victory? -- 2. On the Home Front -- 3. Liberal Troubles and Unionist Muddles -- 4. The Inquest -- Part III: Edwardian England -- 10. The Unionist Project, 1902-1905 -- International Relations -- 1. The Reorganization of Imperial Defence -- 2. The End of Isolation? -- The Domestic Front -- 1. The 1902 Education Act -- 2. The Genesis of Tariff Reform -- 3. Drifting to Disaster -- 4. A Doomed Project? -- 5. The End of the Unionist Ascendancy -- 6. The Forging of the Progressive Alliance -- 7. Defeat -- Transition to Liberal Rule, 1906-1908 -- 1. The 1906 General Election -- 2. The Liberals in Office: the Early Years -- 11. The Liberal Party and Social Welfare Politics -- 1. The Liberal Welfare Reforms -- 2. Rationale for Legislation -- 3. Creating an Imperial Race? -- 4. The Political Legacy of Welfare Reform -- 5. Health and Welfare in Edwardian Britain -- 12. The Years of 'Crisis', 1908-1914 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Constitutional Crisis -- 3. Crisis in Ireland -- 4. The Issue of Corruption -- 5. The Great Labour Unrest -- 6. The Women's Revolt -- 7. The Strange Death of Liberal England? -- 13. The Road to War -- 1. Imperial Policy -- 2. The Formation of the Anglo-russian Entente -- 3. The Hardening of the Anglo-french Entente -- 4. The Strategic Dilemma -- 5. Grey Under Challenge -- 6. Invasion Scares and Spies -- 7. A Militarized Society? -- 8. Feeling in the Country -- 9. The Challenge of the Peace Movement -- 10. Crisis -- Part IV: Leisure, Culture, and Science -- 14. The Pursuit of Pleasure.
1. Time for Play -- 2. The Role of Religion -- 3. Rational Recreation -- 4. Rise of the Leisure Industry -- 5. 'I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside' -- 6. Forbidden Pleasures -- 7. Hobbies -- 15. Art and Culture -- 1. The Market for Art -- 2. Art and Morality -- 3. Realism and Modernism -- 4. The Nature of 'Englishness' -- 5. Pastoralism -- 6. Conclusion -- 16. Science and Learning -- 1. The Age of Discovery -- 2. Technology and Science -- 3. Britain's International Performance -- 4. The 'Endowment of Research' Movement -- 5. Attitudes to Science and Technology -- 6. Science and Spirituality -- 7. Social Science -- 8. The Triumph of Academia? -- Part V: The Great War -- 17. The Great War: The Loss of Innocence, 1914-1916 -- 1. 'All over by Christmas?': August-december 1914 -- 2. The End of the Liberal Ministry, January-May 1915 -- 3. Troubled Days, May-December 1915 -- 4. Jutland and the War at Sea -- 5. The Somme Campaign -- 6. Background to the December 1916 Crisis -- 18. The Great War: Tragedy and Triumph, 1916-1918 -- 1. Turning over a New Leaf ? -- 2. Gambling on Nivelle -- 3. The Unrestricted U-Boat Campaign -- 4. Third Ypres and Cambrai -- 5. Crumbling Morale -- 6. Planning for 1918 -- 7. 'Backs to the Wall' -- 8. Lloyd George's Triumph -- 9. Forward to Victory -- 19. The Patriotic Experience -- 1. The Experience of War -- 2. National Identities -- 3. Pacifists, Patriots, and Jingoes -- 20. War and the Reshaping of Identities -- 1. Gender and Generation -- 2. Class and the Military Participation Ratio -- 3. The Growth of the State -- 4. Political Identities -- Chronology -- List of Cabinets -- General Elections -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Leeds : remembering 1914-18 / / Lucy Moore & Nicola Pullan ; foreword by councillor Judith Blake
