Mythistory and Manipulation in the Romanian Journalism during the First World War. Case Study: The Magazine ‘Războiul popoarelor’ (‘The War of the Peoples’) 1914-1915

The name K. A. Amonoo sits in the Roll of Honour in the entrance hall of Queen’s College, Taunton, Somerset, England together with the names of other former pupils who served in the First World War. In recent times, focus on K. A. Amonoo has been on his palatial residence, which he built in Anomabo, a coastal town in Ghana, in colonial Gold Coast, as Micots (2015 and 2017) have sought to emphasize in terms of the architectural design of his residence. Therefore, what this paper seeks to do is to bring to light a historically significant narrative of who Amonoo was, as a case study to examine and foreground the contributions of some of the nearly forgotten African intelligentsia of coastal Ghana. Through close analysis, the paper also places a central gaze on his activism within colonial Gold Coast and Calabar in colonial Nigeria as subtle moves to counter the growing authority of the British administration. Utilizing a set of key biographical prompts, the paper reflects on thematic issues such as class and status, modernity, and resistance to British colonial hegemony.

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‘The day of Compromise is past’: The Oxford Free Churches and ‘Passive Resistance’ to the 1902 Education Act

Studies in Church History ◽

10.1017/stc.2019.25 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 56 ◽

pp. 455-470

Author(s):

Martin Wellings

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

World War ◽

England And Wales ◽

Passive Resistance ◽

Free Church ◽

The First World War ◽

Education Act ◽

The Impact ◽

First World

Balfour's Education Act of 1902, abolishing directly elected school boards and making rate aid available to denominational schools, provoked a storm of opposition from the Free Churches in England and Wales. One response was to refuse to pay the portion of the rate designated for the support of denominational schools; this led to Free Church representatives appearing in court and facing distraint and even imprisonment for non-payment. This article offers a case study of ‘passive resistance’ in Oxford, where opposition to the act was co-ordinated by a Citizen's Education League and the Free Church Council. It sets out the case made by the Free Churches, explores the personnel and denominational identities of the resisters, and assesses the impact of the campaign between 1903 and the First World War.

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The Posthumous Lives of Thomas Muir

Liberty, Property and Popular Politics ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474405676.003.0015 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gordon Pentland

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Great Britain ◽

First World War ◽

The Other ◽

World War ◽

The West ◽

Labour Movement ◽

The First World War ◽

First World

This chapter examines the ways in which Thomas Muir was used by political activists, historians and writers in both Great Britain and Australia in the centuries following his death. It analyses Muir's posthumous lives as a case study of how, when and why revolutionary figures of the 1790s have become politically usable. It discusses three important contexts that help explain both revived interest in Muir and changed interpretations of his political significance: one was provided by two global conflicts, the First World War and the ‘age of revolutions’ between 1790 and 1848; the other was provided by the success of the Labour movement in the West of Scotland. The chapter shows how the transnational dimension of Muir's life has been at least partially recovered and his legacy shaped and deployed by an emerging Australian nationalism from the end of the nineteenth century.

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Women's Citizenship and the First World War: general remarks and a case study of women's enfranchisement in Austria and Germany

Women s History Review ◽

10.1080/09612025.2015.1083226 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 274-295

Author(s):

Birgitta Bader-Zaar

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

World War ◽

The First World War ◽

First World

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Whither Industrial Democracy? The Federal Government and Organized Labour in the Telegraph Industry during the First World War

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875813001515 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 517-539

Author(s):

STEVEN PARFITT

Keyword(s):

Federal Government ◽

First World War ◽

Industrial Democracy ◽

World War ◽

Labour Relations ◽

Federal Intervention ◽

The First World War ◽

First World ◽

Telephone Administration

The recent historiography of American labour in the First World War pays special attention to the idea of industrial democracy. The federal government, historians argue in various ways, played a major role in defining that term and affecting how trade unionists, employers and all kinds of industrial and political reformers fought over and applied their own definitions of industrial democracy. In this article I look at one case study of wartime federal intervention in labour relations, between the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America (CTUA) and the Western Union Telegraph Company. During the war both parties were subject to intervention from the National War Labor Board, the main federal arbitration agency, and then, after nationalization of the telegraphs, the federal Telegraph and Telephone Administration. The experience of the CTUA is more or less at odds with recent general accounts of First World War labour. In this article I argue that this experience points towards a change of emphasis regarding federal-style industrial democracy, placing greater stress on its role in leading directly to the non and antiunion industrial policies practised by many employers in the 1920s, in addition to its encouragement of trade union growth in wartime.

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