Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War: The Memory of All That

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Richard Carr

Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War

The Memory of All That

Richard Carr

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Routledge
09 April 2013

British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Military veterans

Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This relatively high-profile cohort have been under-explored as a distinct body, yet a study of their experiences of the war and the ways in which they - and the Conservative Party - represented those experiences to the voting public reveals much about the political culture of Interwar Britain and the use of the Great War as political capital.

Radicalised ex-servicemen have, thus far, been considered a rather continental phenomenon historiographically. And whilst attitudes to Hitler and Mussolini form part of this analysis, the study also explores why there were fewer such types in Britain. The Conservative Party, it will be shown, played a crucial part in such a process - with British politics serving as a contested space for survivors' interpretations of what the war should mean.

By: Richard Carr
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9781409441038
ISBN 10: 1409441032
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 09 April 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Carr has lectured at the University of East Anglia and served as a By-Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. His academic work has primarily explored the links between the Great War and British politics after 1918. He currently is a Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, and is co-authoring a biography of the 1960s Labour Party minister Alice Bacon.

Reviews for Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War: The Memory of All That

Experiences of the First World War defined the world view of many in interwar British society, just as the Conservative Party dominated that period's politics. In exploring the lives of veterans turned Tory politicians, this study shows not only how the Conservatives gained power between the wars, but also why they were unable to transform the nation for the better when in office. In the words of Yogi Berra, it feels like deja vu all over again.'Lord Maurice Glasman, London Metropolitan University, UK'This book shows how the Great War influenced British political culture after 1918 to a meaningful degree. Conservative MP's brought their understandings of what their war experience had meant to the pressing issues of the time, particularly unemployment and appeasement, but they did so in ways that defy some of the easier generalizations of the standard narrative. A useful study of an important subject.'Adrian Gregory, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK