Remembering

Question 1

What does whigism mean?

Answer 1

Point of view that suggests we are constantly moving forward in life

Question 2

Who is Harry Leslie smith?

Answer 2

British writer and political commentator,served during ww2, advocate for saving the nhs, written four books about Britain during Great Depression, ww2 and post war austerity.

Question 3

What can harry Leslie smith gave a sense of personal/intimate costs of?

Answer 3

Austerity and poverty

Question 4

What has happened to depictions of 20s30s over time?

Answer 4

Changed significantly depending on climate it’s written it, distance of the event

Question 5

What does Alison lights forever England argue?

Answer 5

Intend to unpick literary works to find the everyday world of 20s and 30s, the private sphere, talks about emasculation of men, and lives of women.

Question 6

What kind of Englishness does Alison light put forward?

Answer 6

Conservative modernity, stuck between past and present

Englishness as home - feminised/not masculine anymore

Question 7

How was pugh’s danced all night (2008) revisionist?

Answer 7

Suggests interwar a period of good times not hardship, reclaims a positive account

Question 8

In contrast to Pugh, what does richard overy present in The Morbid Age?

Answer 8

Focus is on the 30s hence reason for sad title, uses contemporary reactions to give a sense of the mood of despair

Question 9

What does overy argue in the morbid age (2010) happened after the war ended?

Answer 9

A mental war began

Question 10

Name 3 things that often stay the same in accounts of 20s30s?

Answer 10

The reference to the war, dates of it, general facts, knowledge that it was a period of great change, upper class v rich

Question 11

What happened in the 90s that changed the way 20s30s remembered?

Answer 11

Feminist history, history of emotion makes it look very different

Question 12

What does the mention of a decade often evoke?

Answer 12

Powerful shared or sometimes contested images and meanings

Question 13

What does James Vernon argue the hungry thirties started?

Answer 13

The story of British social democracy and the poor law

Question 14

How does the past become history? And what effect does this have?

Answer 14

Through the stories we tell about it and means it is a construct, constantly shifting

Question 15

When did the Cannock war memorial meeting take place?

Answer 15

1921

Question 16

What did Honourable Secretary William jukes say about the fact Cannock did not have a war memorial?

Answer 16

That it was a disgrace and a blot on the good name of the town

Question 17

What went wrong with the Cannock war memorial?

Answer 17

In such a rush to put it up they put the wrong name on a statue

Question 18

Why were war memorials so important to 1920s 30s families?

Answer 18

They weren’t able to get to graves unless they could afford to go on a pilgrimage so this gave them a way to mourn/somewhere to pay their respects

Question 19

Why is Basingstoke’s war memorial different?

Answer 19

It was celebratory not sombre had an olive branch and victory Angel, a celebration of peacetime.

Question 20

Did many people come to war memorials in 20s?

Answer 20

Yeah lots and lots of people

Question 21

What do we have to be careful of with memorials?

Answer 21

They can be paid for by the poor but often made by architects and the architect decides what’s on the memorial

Question 22

What does Samuel Haynes say about memorials giving?

Answer 22

Give dignity to undignified death

Question 23

When was the Birmingham hall of memory built?

Answer 23

1923

Question 24

What did prince of Wales say hall of memory would symbolise?

Answer 24

“Symbolise to generations to come that brim stood firm during a period of great national crisis.”

Question 25

Who built the hall of memory? And who paid for it?

Answer 25

Brum craftsmen built it and cost 60,000 from public donation

Question 26

What do the 3 reliefs in the hall of memory show?

Answer 26

A desolate sad image

Question 27

What does the little boy on the reliefs symbolise?

Answer 27

Generational memory, he is the next generation, goes with the inscription “not suffered and died in vain”

Question 28

How are the dead and disabled represented in the third relief?

Answer 28

Dead shown by the layered graves and disabled in the front, unusual to have recognition of the disabled

Question 29

In the hall of memory relief how is the image of the battlefield depicted?

Answer 29

Men as vulnerable, mass of people. Can’t make out any faces all identical

Question 30

In the 20s what was the hall of memory part of?

Answer 30

Bigger park area, a place for meeting for contemplation mourning and remembrance of a public nature - near the factories and industrial area

Question 31

What is the empty crypt in the middle for in the hall of memory?

Answer 31

Acts as a grave for those who have been lost. At start of the war decision made not to fly back bodies from the war even for the rich meant there was no normal way to mourn no funeral etc. Graves are all abroad allowed people somewhere like a grave to visit

Question 32

Why does the hall of memory have a classic architectural feel?

Answer 32

Going back to the past for comfort and familiarity in a time that was so uncertain and confusing

Question 33

What does Sam Haynes call memorials?

Answer 33

“Poems in stone and marble”

Question 34

Was the old lie a popular way to remember the war?

Answer 34

Only later on, bitter way of looking at