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Ep. 117 – Post War Mutinies in the British Army – Dr William Butler
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Dr William Butler, Outreach Officer and Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent, talks about the post-war mutinies in the British Army. This lecture was given as part of the Antrim and Down WFA branch’s spring conference on the Consequences of War held on the 9 May 2019.
ONLINE: 'The British Soldier is no Bolshevik: problems with demobilisation' with Dr William Butler
The presentation will be live and online. Almost immediately after the Armistice was signed in November 1918, many British soldiers went on strike to demand their swifter return to civilian life. In January 1919, over 50,000 soldiers were out on strike, a fact that was of great concern to the British civilian and military authorities, who mis…