Human health risks related to the consumption of foodstuffs of plant and animal origin produced on a site polluted by chemical munitions of the First World War

The Compost Wars

10.1093/oso/9780199642533.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Gregory A. Barton

Keyword(s):

Human Health ◽

First World War ◽

League Of Nations ◽

World War ◽

The First World War ◽

The World ◽

Popular Audience ◽

First World

After the death of Gabrielle Howard from cancer, Albert married her sister Louise. Louise had been pressured to leave Cambridge as a classics lecturer as a result of her pro-peace writings during the First World War. After working for Virginia Wolf, she then worked for the League of Nations in Geneva. Louise was herself an expert on labor and agriculture, and helped Albert write for a popular audience. Albert Howard toured plantations around the world advocating the Indore Method. After the publication of the Agricultural Testament (1943), Albert Howard focused on popularizing his work among gardeners and increasingly connected his composting methods to issues of human health.

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Glanders: re-emergence of an ancient zoonosis

Microbiology Australia ◽

10.1071/ma20011 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 41

Author(s):

Patricia Ellis

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Human Health ◽

Exponential Growth ◽

First World War ◽

Biological Warfare ◽

World War ◽

Biological Warfare Agent ◽

The First World War ◽

Global Spread ◽

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Glanders, although known to be endemic in certain regions/countries of the Old and New Worlds for centuries, had been largely overlooked as a threat to equine and human health until the disease re-emerged in the Middle East in 2004. The exponential growth in international horse movements, both legal and illegal, mainly for performance purposes, has enhanced the risk of global spread of glanders in the Middle East and elsewhere. Ever since the First World War, the glanders bacillus has been recognised as a potential biological warfare agent.

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“The place is a prison, and you can’t change it”

Ontario History ◽

10.7202/1041284ar ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 109 (2) ◽

pp. 184-212

Author(s):

Brook Durham

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

Military Hospital ◽

World War ◽

Canadian Expeditionary Force ◽

The Social ◽

The First World War ◽

A Site ◽

First World

Speedwell Military Hospital was a hospital for veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force located in the newly-built Ontario Reformatory in Guelph. Speedwell was part of a nation-wide program administered by the Department of Soldiers’ Civil Re-Establishment (DSCR) during the First World War intended to neutralize some of the social dangers associated with demobilization. As the health of individual veterans at Speedwell became closely associated with the nation’s economic strength, the ultimate goal of hospitals like Speedwell was the transformation of sick and wounded veterans into healthy and productive workers. However, as the needs of patients changed after the war, the initial promise of Speedwell as a site of rehabilitative labour made it clearly unsuitable for veterans in need of long-term convalescence care.

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The Old Subconscious Trail of Dread

Locating the Gothic in British Modernity ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781942954897.003.0003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 63-108

Author(s):

Sam Wiseman

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

World War ◽

Ghost Stories ◽

Gothic Fiction ◽

The First World War ◽

Industrial Modernity ◽

May Sinclair ◽

A Site ◽

Modernist Fiction ◽

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This chapter explores links, in terms of imagery, symbolism, theme, and form, that exist between a range of rural-set texts spanning the period from the fin de siècle to the First World War. It argues that the evolution of the British rural Gothic in this period reveals sympathies between canonically modernist fiction (D.H. Lawrence and May Sinclair, for example) and more formally conventional texts (such as those of M.R. James and Walter de la Mare). This suggests a broader understanding of what constitutes modernist experimentation. The chapter also traces the influence of metropolitan and industrial modernity upon the rural Gothic imaginary, and considers the dialectical relation between these two cultural and geographical spaces. It ultimately argues that in the Gothic fiction and ghost stories of the period, we see rural Britain represented as a site of uncanny returns, in which repressed traumas, anxieties and violence re-emerge.

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"Warn the Duke"

Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques ◽

10.3167/hrrh.2019.450106 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 93-112

Author(s):

Paul Miller-Melamed

Keyword(s):

Academic Writing ◽

First World War ◽

Historical Narratives ◽

The Political ◽

World War ◽

The First World War ◽

The Creation ◽

Popular Representations ◽

A Site ◽

First World

How has the Sarajevo assassination been conjured and construed, narrated and represented, in a wide variety of media including fiction, film, newspapers, children’s literature, encyclopedias, textbooks, and academic writing itself? In what ways have these sources shaped our understanding of the so-called “first shots of the First World War”? By treating the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (28 June 1914) as a "site of memory" à la historian Pierre Nora, this article argues that both popular representations and historical narratives (including academic writing) of the political murder have contributed equally to the creation of what I identify here as the “Sarajevo myth.”

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Dramatic Representation of Trench Space as an ‘Experiential Ruin’ in R.C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End and Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses ◽

10.14198/raei.2018.31.05 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 71

Author(s):

Jonathan Patterson

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

Spatial Theory ◽

Literary Studies ◽

World War ◽

The First World War ◽

A Site ◽

Trench Warfare ◽

The Great War ◽

The Relationship ◽

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Physical forms of ruin and psychological forms of ruination is an area within spatial theory that will enhance literary studies, especially literature of the First World War. The literary representation of the trench as a ruined space is a predominant feature of literature that emerges from the Great War. Among the different genres, it is drama that is ideally poised to offer a critique of the way both physical and psychological ruin can be depicted on the stage. Both R.C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End and Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie consciously depict trench space as a site of embodied trauma for soldiers who experienced trench warfare and, consequently, trench space functions as an ‘experiential ruin.’ This ‘embodied exchange’ emphasizes the relationship between the battlefield (or cite of trauma) and the actual war-related trauma itself. Both Sherriff and O’Casey have created plays that show the decaying landscape and decaying psyche as inseparable victims to the devastation of the First World War.

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