Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Materials / J. Meyer -- Introduction: Popular Culture And The First World War / Jessica Meyer -- The Propinquity Of Place: Home, Landscape And Soldier Poets Of The First World War / Keith Grieves -- A War Unimagined: Food And The Rank And File Soldier Of The First World War / Rachel Duffett -- ‘Tailoring In The Trenches’: The Making Of First World War British Army Uniform / Jane Tynan -- “All That Is Best Of The Modern Woman”? Representations Of Female Military Auxiliaries In British Popular Culture, 1914–1919 / Krisztina Robert -- ‘Playing At Being Soldiers’?: British Women And Military Uniform In The First World War / Lucy Noakes -- “Wartime Hysterics”?: Alcohol, Women And The Politics Of Wartime Social Purity In England / Stella Moss -- Best Boys And Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric Of Romance As Social Control In Wartime Magazines For Young Women / Carol Acton -- Practical Memory: Organized Veterans And The Politics Of Commemoration / Douglas Higbee -- The Old Front Line: Returning To The Battlefields In The Writings Of Ex-Servicemen / John Pegum -- ‘A Sting Of Remembrance!’: Collective Memory And Its Forgotten Armies / Eugene Michail -- The Last War: The Legacy Of The First World War In 1940s British Fiction / Victoria Stewart -- Reaching Out To The Past: Memory In Contemporary British First World War Narratives / Virginie Renard -- Framed (By) Memory: The Popular Mnemonics Of The First World War In The Unknown Soldier (Carlton Tv, Uk 1998) And Distant Bridges (Uk/Usa 1999) / Claudia Sternberg -- “How Much Of An ‘Experience’ Do We Want The Public To Receive?”: Trench Reconstructions And Popular Images Of The Great War / Richard Espley -- ‘If It Had Happened Otherwise’—First World War Exceptionalism In Counterfactual History / Stephen Badsey -- Illustrations / J. Meyer -- Index / J. Meyer.

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Much of the scholarship examining British culture of the First World War focusses on the 'high' culture of a limited number of novels, memoirs, plays and works of art, and the cultural reaction to them. This collection, by focussing on the cultural forms produced by and for a much wider range of social groups, including veterans, women, museum visitors and film goers, greatly expands the debate over how the war was represented by participants and the meanings ascribed to it in cultural production. Showcasing the work of both established academics and emerging scholars of the field, this book covers aspects of British popular culture from the material cultures of food and clothing to the representational cultures of literature and film. The result is an engaging and invigorating re-examination of the First World War and its place in British culture. Contributors are: Keith Grieves, Rachel Duffett, Jane Tynan, Krisztina Robert, Lucy Noakes, Stella Moss, Carol Acton, Douglas Higbee, John Pegum, Eugene Michail, Victoria Stewart, Virginie Renard, Claudia Sternberg, Richard Espley and Stephen Badsey. Erratum Introduction, Jessica Meyer, page 11 in the first sentence of the second paragraph, for 'talke' read 'talk.'