Echtscheiding in de Leuvense rechtspraktijk in de nasleep van de ‘Groote Oorlog’

Pro Memorie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-205
Author(s):  
Nade Henrioul
Keyword(s):  
Legal History ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Great War ◽  
Royal Decree ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Court Of First Instance ◽  
The Great War

Abstract In order to contribute to the existing gap in the Belgian legal history, the divorce jurisprudence from 1919 to 1922 of the court of first instance in Leuven was studied. The challenges resulting from the Great War were clearly visible in the examined judgments. First, there were regular references to the war and more specifically to the German enemy and the behaviour of the women who remained on the home front. In addition, due to circumstances created by the war some Belgians were unable to go before the civil registrar to have their divorce pronounced. The suspension contained in the Royal Decree of 26 October 1914 could, contrary to its purpose and due to the uncertainty surrounding the date of the end of the war, not be applied. Finally, the judges showed a flexible attitude in the analysis of the divorce motive ‘gross insults’. In this analysis, the role soldiers played during the war clearly aroused sympathy among the judges.

“Cry with the Pack and Kill What We Fear”

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
E. H. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Great War ◽  
Women Playwrights ◽  
Vernon Lee ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Central Purpose

After the Great War, women playwrights began to write drama addressing the consequences of war for women, the home front and for humanity as a whole and positing strategies for ways in which future wars might be prevented. This essay explores the work of these women playwrights and makes comparisons between their dramas and Woolf’s thinking about war in her novels and Three Guineas. Woolf and playwrights such as Vernon Lee, Cicely Hamilton, Muriel Box, Olive Popplewell and Elizabeth Rye ask us to examine nationalism as a catalyst for conflict and to take up the position of ‘outsiders’ in order to question our place in supporting future wars. In light of this, the essay will also address form, particularly pageantry as a mode that all these authors use to undermine the central purpose of pageantry which is to create the group cohesion that these writers believe leads to conflict.

scholarly journals Continuity and change in the Sheffield armaments industry 1919-1930

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Corker
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Great War ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Great War

Purpose This article aims to explore the impact of the Great War on the Sheffield armaments industry through the use of four company case studies in Thomas Firth, John Brown, Cammell Laird and Hadfields. It charts the evolving situation the armaments companies found themselves in after the end of the conflict and the uncertain external environment they had to engage with. The article also examines the stagnant nature of armaments companies’ boards of directors in the 1920s and the ultimate rationalisation of the industry at the close of the decade. Design/methodology/approach The research design is based around a close examination of the surviving manuscript records of each of the companies included, the records of the speeches recorded by chairpersons at annual meetings and some governmental records. Findings The article concludes by outlining how the end of the Great War continued to affect the industry for the following decade and the complex evolving situation with a changing external environment and continuity of management internally ultimately leading to mergers in the industry. Originality/value This article uses a number of underused manuscript records to examine the Sheffield armaments industry and explores the effect of a global mega event in the Great War on one of the most technologically advanced industries of the period.

Canada through World War I

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian C. D. Moffat
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Canadian Army ◽  
British Colony ◽  
The One ◽  
The Great War

The Great War was the world event that began the evolution of Canada from a self-governing British colony to a great independent country. However, one of Canada’s failings is its self-deprecation and modesty. Canada has produced a number of historic works documenting and analyzing Canada’s accomplishments and the individuals who made them happen. Although much was written by actual participants in the interwar years, the majority of the objective and analytical works have only slowly emerged after the Second World War when history became a respected academic discipline. This annotated bibliography gives a cross section of the Canadian Great War historiography with the majority of the work having been produced after 1980. The Canadian Army and the role of Canadians serving in the British Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service have good coverage in Canadian monographs. The one area of study that has a dearth of work is on the Royal Canadian Navy since it had a very small role in the Great War and did not come into its own until after 1939. Nonetheless, there are a number of works included that show the Navy’s fledgling accomplishments between 1914 and 1918, as well as the efforts of the British Admiralty to restrict the Royal Canadian Navy’s actions in defense of its own area of operations. This bibliography also contains works on prisoners of war, the psychological effects of trench warfare on Canadians serving at the front, the internment of enemy aliens in Canada, and effects of the war on the home front, including one French work analyzing French Quebec’s changing attitude to World War I over the length of the 20th century.

‘Wheels within Wheels’: D. H. Lawrence, Industrial Time and War Time

2018 ◽  
pp. 47-72
Author(s):  
Randall Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Great War ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Motion Studies ◽  
Summer Time ◽  
The Great War

Many factors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – to an extent, ever since the industrial revolution – extended throughout everyday life forms of the rationalised temporality Conrad encountered so exactingly at sea. These included clocking-in for factory work, F.W. Taylor’s time-and-motion studies, and Ford’s introduction of production lines. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love illustrate the spread of reifying forces involved, aptly summarised by Georg Lukács in 1923. The Great War added further to temporal rationalisations imposed on modern life, through military operations requiring still stricter co-ordination than industrial ones, and measures on the Home Front including the introduction of Summer Time in 1916. By 1919, when Armistice Day arrested the entire British population at 11am on 11 November, life and death in the modern world were controlled by the clock more stringently than ever previously. In broadly historical terms, too, the Great War had shattered a sense of continuity in ways reflected in the more fragmented or non-serial forms of fiction developing in the years that followed.

Sydney Professor G.A. Wood and the Great War 1914-1918

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Moses
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Great War ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sermon On The Mount ◽  
The Core ◽  
War Aims ◽  
The University ◽  
The Great War

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the views of Professor George Arnold Wood, a leading Australian scholar at the University of Sydney, concerning the involvement of the British Empire in the Great War of 1914-1918. Design/methodology/approach The author has examined all of Professor Wood’s extant commentaries on the Great War which are held in the archives of the University of Sydney as well as the biographical material on Professor Wood by leading Australian scholars. The methodology and approach is purely empirical. Findings The sources consulted revealed Professor Wood’s deeply held conviction about the importance of Christian values in the formation of political will and his belief that the vocation of politics is a most serious one demanding from statesmen the utmost integrity in striving to ensure justice and freedom, respect for the rights of others and the duty of the strong to protect the weak against unprincipled and ruthless states. Originality/value The paper highlights Professor Wood’s values as derived from the core statements of Jesus of Nazareth such as in the Sermon on the Mount. And as these contrasted greatly with the Machiavellian practice of the imperial German Chancellors from Bismarck onwards, and of the Kaiser Wilhelm II. It was necessary for the British Empire to oppose German war aims with all the force at its disposal. The paper illustrates the ideological basis from which Wood derived his values.

Morals and Morale during the Great War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy M. Wingfield
Keyword(s):  
Home Front ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Great War ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
The Social ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Military Control ◽  
Social Upheaval ◽  
The Great War

The First World War had great impact on the sexual practices across the Monarchy. Despite increasing military control over the civilian realm, the social upheaval of wartime provided more space—including barracks and military parade grounds—for casual, non-marital, sometimes, commercial, sexual transactions. This chapter examines the explosion of clandestine prostitution and the virtual collapse of regulated prostitution in the Monarchy, both owing to the economic privation of wartime, as part of everyday life on the home front. Military-civilian efforts were little help in closely overseeing regulated prostitutes, limiting the activities of clandestine prostitutes or slowing the spread of sexually transmitted infections, thereby revealing limits of state and social control in Austria during the Great War. The overwhelming focus on women as the source of STIs and surveillance, occupation, even, of some female bodies constituted an additional intrusion into the lives of a particular class of women during wartime.

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