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August 1914 with Mark Rowe

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As the watershed month when England went from peace to war, it is the ideal place and time to take stock of the country. How happy and united was it, how did people react to war? Were the suffragette, trade union, socialist and Irish home rule movements as important as some feared or hoped? And, as the BEF blundered into the German Army and retreat…


Mark Rowe - ‘August 1914: England in Peace and War'

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Mark's talk is based on his book 'August 1914: England in Peace and War' As the watershed month when England went from peace to war, it's an ideal place and time to take stock of the country. How happy and united was it, how did people react to war? Were the suffragette, trade union and socialist and Irish home rulemovements as important as some fe…