Jul 1, 2024
This month Angus, Chris and Jessica discuss Jessica's
professorial inaugural lecture, 'No (Wo)man's
Land: writing history at the intersection of gender and First World
War studies'.
Along the way we consider the problem of masculinity as an
empty analytic category, the importance of the centenary for the
study of the First World War and what Jessica might have done if
she hadn't gone in to academia. There is also a sneak preview of
exciting forthcoming and future projects from all three of
us.
References:
Jessica Meyer,
‘On Being a Woman and a War Historian’
Jessica Meyer, Men of War: Masculinity and the First World
War in Britain (2008)
Jessica Meyer, Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army
Medical Corps in the First World War (2019)
Kate Adie, Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women
in World War One (2013)
Kate Adie,
‘Don't write first world war women out of history’, The
Guardian, 23rd September, 2013
Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August (1962)
Deborah Thom, Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in
World War 1 (1998)
Tammy Proctor, Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in
the First World War (2003)
Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers (2001)
Adrian Gregory, The Last Great War (2008)
Jeremy Paxman, Great Britain's Great
War (2013)
John Tosh and Michael Roper (eds), Manful Assertions:
Masculinities in Britain Since 1800 (1991)
Denise Riley, Am I That Name?: Feminism and the Category
of ‘Women’ (1988)
R.W. Connell, Masculinities (1993)
Joan W. Scott, ‘Rewriting History’ in Margaret R. Higonnet,
et. al. (eds), Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World
Wars (2008)
Branden Little (ed), Humanitarianism in the Era of the
First World War, special issue ofFirst World War
Studies, vol.5, no.1 (2014)
Heather Perry, Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and
Modernity in World War I Germany (2014)
Michele Moyd, Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers,
Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa
(2014)
Susan Grayzel, Women and the First World War
(2002)
Alexander Mayhew, Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis,
Englishness and Morale on the Western Front (2024)
Alice Winn, In Memoriam (2023), https://ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/in-memoriam/
Sam Mendes, 1917 (2019),
https://ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/sam-mendes-1917-and-the-landscape/
Peter Mandler, ‘The Problem with Cultural History’,
Cultural and Social History, vol.1, no.1 (2004),
94-117.
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern
Memory (1975)
Robert Graves, Good-bye to All That (1929)
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western
Front (1929)
Rosa Maria Bracco, Merchants of Hope: British Middlebrow
Writers and the First World War (1993)
Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991)
Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong (1993)
Alison Light, Forever England: Femininity, Literature, and
Conservatism Between the Wars (1991)
Jessica Meyer, Chris Kempshall and Markus Pöhlman,
‘Life and Death of Soldiers’, 1914-18 Online,
7th February, 2022
Chris Kempshall,
The Rise and Fall of the Galactic
Empire (2024)
Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
(2024)