The Provincial Press & the Outbreak of War. A Unionist View in Worcestershire. (September 2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Provincial Press & the Outbreak of War. A Unionist View in Worcestershire. (September 2014)
- Main Title:
- The Provincial Press & the Outbreak of War. A Unionist View in Worcestershire
- Authors:
- Beeching, Nick
- Abstract:
- <abstract> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <p>This article tests three contentions advanced by Adrian Gregory in his book <italic>The Last Great War</italic>: first, that the reaction to the outbreak of war in 1914 was not one of universal unthinking enthusiasm; second, that the provincial press took a sober and critical view of the imminent outbreak of hostilities; and third, that volunteering was a more layered experience than a simple rush to the colours. The methodology adopted has been to review the <italic>Berrow's Journal</italic> newspaper between January 1914 and January 1915, looking particularly at the editorial views of the paper, views expressed through the paper via 'Letters to the Editor', accounts of meetings and quotations from speakers and the events and information that the newspaper chose to report. <italic>Berrow's Journal</italic> has been chosen as a weekly newspaper and as a Unionist newspaper in a strongly Unionist region, where if jingoism were to be found, a superficial reading might suggest it would be found there. The figures on enlistments quoted in the newspaper will be tested against the author's own research using fatal casualties as a representative sample.</p> </sec> </abstract>
- Is Part Of:
- Midland history. Volume 39:Number 2(2014)
- Journal:
- Midland history
- Issue:
- Volume 39:Number 2(2014)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 39, Issue 2 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 39
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0039-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 163
- Page End:
- 184
- Publication Date:
- 2014-09
- Subjects:
- Midlands -- History -- Periodicals
942.405 - Journal URLs:
- http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/warpto.phtml?colors=7&jour%5Fid=30500 ↗
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/mdh ↗
http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/%7Ep1ges/zfhm/midlandhist.html ↗
http://maneypublishing.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1179/0047729X14Z.00000000039 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0047-729X
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 4092.xml