Fears of the Dark: Young People and the Cinema During the First World War

Between 2014 and 2019, secondary school pupils from every state school in England were given the opportunity to visit the battlefields of the Western Front as part of the UK government’s flagship educational initiative to mark the centenary of the First World War. Based on empirical research conducted with pupil participants on the First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme, this article explores the processes of militarisation present within these tours as well as the way young people participated in and made sense of these practices.

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Mary Van Kleeck and Social-Economic Planning

Journal of Policy History ◽

10.1017/s0898030600004486 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 1-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Guy Alchon

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Social Economic ◽

Social Research ◽

Public Life ◽

First World War ◽

Economic Planning ◽

International Affairs ◽

World War ◽

The First World War ◽

First World

“We are, most of us,” Mary Van Kleeck said in November 1957, “getting too old to talk.” Near the end of more than two hours of interrogation by officials of the State Department's Passport Office, Van Kleeck tried to impress upon her questioners the commitment to social research and to social justice that underlay her career. The Passport Office, however, was more concerned about her Communist front and party affiliations, and she was in their offices that Thursday morning appealing their refusal to renew her passport. She was seventy-three years old and retired from public life. She wanted to travel, as had been her practice, to Holland, her ancestral home and the home of her closest friends. “I date way back of you young people,” she told her two interrogators. “I think the work of my generation and our attitudes in international affairs is one of sympathy … to developments in other countries.” But, she continued, “I don't think you people who don't know the period prior to the First World War can possibly see how deep our concern is.”

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'We need to remember they died for us': How young people in New Zealand make meaning of war remembrance and commemoration of the First World War

London Review of Education ◽

10.18546/lre.15.2.09 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mark Sheehan ◽

Martyn Davison

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Young People ◽

Cultural Memory ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

First World War ◽

World War ◽

The First World War ◽

First World ◽

Do So

This article examines the extent to which young people in New Zealand share the dominant beliefs and assumptions that inform contemporary notions of war remembrance concerning the First World War. In particular, it considers how they make meaning of the ANZAC/Gallipoli narrative. Informed by two empirical studies, it questions whether young people uncritically accept the dominant cultural memory messages about the First World War that shape commemorative activities or whether they share a wider range of perspectives on war remembrance. While the purpose of commemorative activities is to convey particular memory messages about appropriate ways to remember the First World War, young people are not passive in this process. Although they typically do not demonstrate a firm grasp of all the relevant historical details about the First World War, when given the opportunity to do so they appear to be engaging critically with the production of cultural memory messages about war remembrance.

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Ecstasies of the Young: Sexuality, the Youth Movement, and Moral Panic in Germany on the Eve of the First World War

Central European History ◽

10.1163/15691610152977938 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 163-189 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

John Alexander Williams

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Moral Panic ◽

First World War ◽

Adolescent Sexuality ◽

World War ◽

Youth Movement ◽

The First World War ◽

German Nation ◽

Monthly Journal ◽

First World

In 1913 the bourgeois youth movement in Germany fell under the influence of a radical minority who called for complete emancipation from adult control. The two most influential youth movement publications of that year joined the language of countercultural rebellion with unconventional discussions of adolescent sexuality. Hans Blüher's book The German Wandervogel Movement as an Erotic Phenomenon argued that the adolescent boys and young adult male leaders of Wandervogel groups were bound together by homoerotic attraction and that these male leagues were of great benefit to the German nation. Der Anfang, a monthly journal written by adolescents and university students only tangentially related to the Wandervögel, proclaimed that Germany's young people were perfectly capable of self-education in all matters, including sexuality. The countercultural trend of 1913 culminated in the Hoher Meissner festival in mid-October.

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