...In 1650, anticipating a Scottish invasion, a Herefordshire parliamentarian published a pamphlet enumerating the ‘plunderings, losses and sufferings’ in the county at the hands of the Scottish army’ that had besieged the city of Hereford in 1645. The pamphlet, an abstract of 160 parish accounts...

... of Industrial Psychology NIIP Royal Institution Wace E G Crichton Miller Hugh Culpin Millais ‘scientific management’ British Psycho Analytical Society Edgerton David Freud Sigmund Rockefeller Foundation Royal Air Force RAF Royal Navy British Army Parry John B tests used for military selection...

...This chapter presents John Bourne's view of the British army as a collection of self-contained battalions. Each battalion in the Irish regiments had its own separate and unique disciplinary record. During the past fifteen years, research into the British army during the Great War has expanded...

...In the Irish units as a whole, courts martial rates fell drastically in most battalions during March 1918 and were especially low in the last three months of the Great War. It is noticeable that, even during this final phase of the war, there was a marked difference between regular and New Army...

... of the war, but after his death on August 18, 1916, he was mourned by those that had known him as a perfect example of the ‘gentleman-soldier’ and as ‘one of the most remarkable men in the army’. Just as Keeling expressed a moral objection to the introduction of compulsion, D. H. Calcutt of the Queen's...

..., the great rebellion of 1798 had been suppressed several weeks earlier. Nonetheless, the tiny French army was joined by thousands of Irish volunteers. In the succeeding 200 years, historians have failed to explain satisfactorily what drove as many as 10,000 supposedly complacent Irish peasants to partake...

... Resistance Army. This chapter demonstrates how the term ‘terrorism’ has been used by the Ugandan government in many different ways and how the expansive use of this term has been critiqued. I argue that the key to understanding the Ugandan government’s response to these disparate threats is through...

.... Negotiating Nursing uses written and oral testimony to explore the work and experiences of nurses on active service overseas. The introduction examines the nature of the sources and the value of personal testimony to the history of Second World War military nursing. Army Medical Services First World...

... Haweswater The Electric Michelangelo The Carhullan Army How To Paint a Dead Man The Beautiful Indifference The Wolf Border Sarah Hall is a dirty writer but a good dirty writer. She writes about the messy urgencies of sex as the bodily culmination of needful affects in search of meaningful articulation...

... preaching. While independent female evangelism waned by the end of the decade, the Salvation Army, co-founded by Catherine Booth, provided unprecedented opportunities for female religious leadership. Thorne Mary O’Bryan Thorne Samuel Thorne Serena Bible Christian Connexion women preachers revivals...

...Most of the earliest British labour colonies were opened by non-conformist churches. By far the largest was the Salvation Army colony at Hadleigh, which opened in 1891, and others followed in England and Scotland. In the aftermath of the Boer Wars, public opinion was concerned over the prospect...

...This chapter explores the army’s physical selection process, the first point in the transformation from civilian to soldier. It describes the various medical grades that men were assigned and discusses the qualities that were considered desirable for recruitment. It then looks at individual...

... the divide between ‘elite’ and ‘popular’ politics, moreover, the essays also develop new approaches to participation, by soldiers and members of the parliamentarian army, by ordinary Londoners, and by provincial parishioners. Critically, they also analyse the involvement, agency, and treatment of women, from...

...This chapter examines the evidence for Leveller influence on the politicization of the New Model Army in 1647 and follows the question of Leveller links with the army radicals through the Putney debates and on to the regicide and its aftermath. It argues that links between Leveller and army...

... in the ‘zone of the armies’, with a combination of diplomacy and indifference. Gordon Fenwick Ethel humanitarian service pacifism US nurses writing style establishment anti war texts feminism Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service QAIMNS social status Stimson Julia birth and early years...

...Conducting an analysis of some of the most candid interview materials ever gathered from former Irish Republican Army (IRA) members and loyalists in Northern Ireland, this book demonstrates through a psychoanalysis of slips of the tongue, jokes, rationalisations and contradictions...

...Table 6.1 Salaries for medical officers of the Irish National Army Medical Corps (1923) Position £ s. d. Lieutenant 1 0 0 per day Captain 1 10 0 per day Commandant 2 2 0 per day Colonel 1,000 0 0 per annum...

... Rights in Strasbourg in response to the army’s ‘inhumane and degrading treatment’ of terrorist suspects. Throughout these difficult years, it has always been said that a solution lay in a two-pronged approach: a vigorous onslaught against the terrorists, coupled with political advance. That political...

...This book looks at the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Sinn Féin during the time between the 1956–1962 ‘border campaign’ and 1969. It examines developments within the Irish republican movement with regard to internal structural and ideological changes, but also in relation to the movement's...