The Ypres Times Volume One (1921-1926)
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The Ypres Times Volume One (1921-1926)

The Ypres Times Volume One (1921-1926)

UNICORN PRESSISBN: 9781913491499

The Complete Post-War Journals of the Ypres League

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Introduction by Mark Connelly
Imprint: UNICORN PRESS
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Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 215 x 155 mm
Weight: 1200 g
Pages: 732

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The Ypres Times was the journal of the remembrance movement, the Ypres League. Founded in 1921, the League was thecreation of Henry Beckles Willson and Beatrix Brice. Both Brice and Beckles Willson understood the crucial significance ofYpres to the British Empire, and believed it their sacred duty to maintain the memory of those who had fought and fell in itsdefence. As the League’s journal, the Ypres Times published a huge range of material. It carried reminiscences of veterans,discussions about the rebuilding of Ypres, the developing work of the Imperial War Graves Commission in the salient, and theerection and unveiling of unit memorials. The Ypres Times reproduced for the first time, in facsimile format and bound in threevolumes provides a fascinating insight into the way the British Empire’s central commemorative site was understood andimagined in the twenties and thirties.

Mark Connelly is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kent. His main research and teaching interest is theFirst World War. He is particularly interested in the commemoration of the conflict, and is currently working on a book aboutbattlefield tourism in the twenties and thirties. He also works closely with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, andconvenes a lecture series in collaboration with the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres.

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