For All We Have and Are: Britain in the Great War - (1901 Series)

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD
Why 1901? (W. A. S. Colthurst)

WESTMINSTER POLITICS
Pandemonium: Suffrage, The Summer of 1892, and the Strange Death of British Labour (Emma Woolrich)
They are Coming for Britain: The Election of 1900 and the Birth of the Atlantic Alliance (Simon MacDonald)
England is Not England: The Early Federation Debate, 1902-1907 (John James Courtenay)
This House: The Constitutional Crisis of 1909-10 (Gordon Smith)
Votes from Women: The First Women MPs and the Battle for the Women’s Vote, 1892-1910 (Elizabeth Astor)

IMPERIAL POLITICS
A Longer Way to Tipperary than to Sydney: Ireland and the Early Federation Debate (Andrew Leahy)
The Maple Leaf Forever? Canada, Newfoundland, and the Early Federation Debate (Juliette Taylor-Trudeau)
Passing the Blame: Anglo-Africans, The Boer Mentality, and the Pre-War Colour Bar (Alice Bengu)
Mr Gandhi Goes to Westminster: India and the Early Federation Debate (Henry Cairns-Watson)

FOREIGN POLITICS
A Minor, but Noticeable, Colonial Venture: How the Boer War Shook the World (Martin de Caestecker)
The Lion, the Eagle, the Rooster, and the Bear: British Alliance-Building in the Run-Up to the Great War, 1900-1911 (V. S. Gowda)
The World Speaks English: Convergence in Pre-War Anglo-America (T. S. Jackson)
The Navy’s Pride and Misery: HMS Dreadnought and the Great Naval Race (Robert Jones)
The Lamps Go Out: The September Crisis of 1911 (Stephen Collins-Wood)

SOCIETY & ECONOMY
Lady and the Banker: The City and the Landed Aristocracy, 1892-1910 (Iain Banks)
No Socialists Need Apply: Labour, Organised and Otherwise, in the Wake of National Insurance (Georgia Hynes-Coulson)
The Diamond Jubilee: Culture and Memory of the Late Victorians (Alexandra J. Wilson-Colthurst)
All Transactions Lead to London: The Financial Empire and the September Crisis in the City (David Connolly)

CONCLUDING REMARKS
War Buries All (W. A. S. Colthurst)​

 

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For all we have and are,
For all our children's fate,
Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate!
Our world has passed away,
In wantonness o'erthrown.
There is nothing left to-day
But steel and fire and stone!
Though all we knew depart,
The old Commandments stand:—
"In courage keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand."

Once more we hear the word
That sickened earth of old:—
"No law except the Sword
Unsheathed and uncontrolled."
Once more it knits mankind,
Once more the nations go
To meet and break and bind
A crazed and driven foe.

Comfort, content, delight,
The ages' slow-bought gain,
They shrivelled in a night.
Only ourselves remain
To face the naked days
In silent fortitude,
Through perils and dismays
Renewed and re-renewed.
Though all we made depart,
The old Commandments stand:—
"In patience keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand."

No easy hope or lies
Shall bring us to our goal,
But iron sacrifice
Of body, will, and soul.
There is but one task for all—
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?
Who dies if England live?

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Rudyard Kipling, 1911

Cover: 'The Last General Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois', Fortunino Matania (1916)


CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
The Great War and National Experience


PROLOGUE
GOING TO WAR
September - October 1911

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. The Decision-Makers
3. Declaring War


ACT ONE
MEETING THE ENEMY
October 1911 - March 1912

PART ONE – WAR AT SEA
4. Spy vs Spy
5. Ships in the Night
6. The Battle of the Forties
7. The Pillars of Hercules

PART TWO – WAR ON LAND
8. Crossing the Channel
9. Let the Foul Scene Proceed
10. The Alps and Pyrenees
11. Imperial Defence

PART THREE – WAR AT HOME
12. Whitehall and Westminster
13. Mobilising Men
14. Mobilising Industry
15. The Long Haul


ACT TWO
ESCALATION
April 1912 - April 1915

PART ONE – SALIENTS
17. Approach
18. Battle
19. Consequence

PART TWO – IBERIA
20. Crossing the Pyrenees
21. Lisbon and London
22. Catalonian Campaign
23. March to Madrid

PART THREE – ITALY
24. The Riviera Campaign
25. Alea Iacta Est
26. The Fall of Rome
27. Italia Irredenta

PART FOUR – FRANCE AND BELGIUM
28. Holding the Line
29. The Scheldt
30. Operation Michael
31. In Flanders Fields

PART FIVE – WORLD WAR
32. The Mediterranean
33. Africa and the Middle East
34. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
35. War and Diplomacy

PART SIX – WAR AT HOME
36. War Finance
37. Westminster Manoeuvres
38. Ireland
39. Canada
40. South Africa
41. Australia and New Zealand
42. India​