A lark for the sake of their country
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A lark for the sake of their country

The 1926 General Strike volunteers in folklore and memory

  1. 289 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A lark for the sake of their country

The 1926 General Strike volunteers in folklore and memory

About this book

A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class 'volunteers' in the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain. With behaviour derived from their play traditions - the larks, rags, fancy dress parties, and treasure hunts that prevailed at universities and country houses - the volunteers transformed a potential workers' revolution into festive public display of Englishness. Decades later, collective folk memories about this event continue to define national identity. Based on correspondence and interviews with volunteers and strikers, as well as contemporary newspapers and magazines, novels, diaries, plays, and memoirs, this book recreates the context for the volunteers' actions. It explores how the upper classes used the strike to assert their ideological right to define Britishness as well as how scholars, novelists, playwrights, diarists, museum curators, local historians, and even a theme restaurant, have continued to recycle the strike to define British identity.

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Information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780719096761
9780719079771
eBook ISBN
9781526130655
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. A lark for the sake of their country: The 1926 General Strike volunteers in folklore and memory
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. Permissions
  8. List of figures and tables
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Preface
  11. 1 Introduction: folklore, memory, and the volunteers of 1926
  12. 2 Building Jerusalem: The General Strike as social drama
  13. 3 Social distinctions, social actions among the upper andmiddle classes
  14. 4 Fides est servanda: keeping the faith
  15. 5 Images of the volunteers: media versus memory
  16. 6 Humours of the Great Strike
  17. 7 The volunteers’ farewell: closing rituals, genteel ironies
  18. 8 From ethos to mythos: the General Strike and Britishness
  19. 9 1926 and all that …: Britishness and the volunteers
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index

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