'I still remain one of the old Settlement boys': Cross-class Friendship in the First World War Letters of Cardiff University Settlement Lads’ Club

Matthews-Jones, Lucinda

doi:10.1080/14780038.2016.1202011

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“…The work of Lucinda Matthews-Jones demonstrates how the existence of philanthropic organizations in poor urban areas created a space for the formation of "cross-class friendships," which could be reinforced at a time of war. 164 In this case, the news sheets act as a conduit for the exchange of news as well as a safe forum for expressions of camaraderie and solicitude for each other. However, the correspondents, numbering around fifty servicemen in total, are also performing public rolestheir awareness of a multiple audience potentially inhibits confidences, encourages jocularity, and leads to a mutual reinforcement of viewpoints.…”

Section: Second World War Mobilizationmentioning

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“The Band of Brothers”: The Mobilization of English Welsh Dual Identities in Second World War Britain

Ugolini¹

2021

J. Br. Stud.

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In the run-up to the Second World War, the War Office agreed to organize territorial units that recruited specifically on the grounds of English Welsh dual identities. These formations, which comprised the 99th London Welsh Heavy Anti-Aircraft regiment and the 46th Liverpool Welsh Royal Tank Regiment, began recruiting in 1939 from English cities with significant Welsh populations. This article explores the mobilization and performance of English Welsh identities during the Second World War and reflects upon why, at a time of global conflict, some English men opted to enlist on the basis of Welsh antecedents. Relatively little attention has been paid to the plurality of British identity in wartime or to how the existence of what historian Thomas Hajkowski has called “hybrid ‘dual identities’” within the constituent countries of the United Kingdom informed the functioning of Britishness during the Second World War. Making use of previously unpublished and original life-writing sources, this article illuminates the significance of dual identifications across two nations at once—in this case, Wales and England—within the multinational state of Britain at war. Overall, by examining the intersectionality between subjective wartime constructions of kin, home, and nation(s), it points to how a sense of dual identifications could feed into recruitment patterns and potentially bolster combat motivation and morale. By highlighting the interconnectedness between constituent nations of Britain, and the complexities of identity formation within Britishness, this article adds to the literature that complicates the notion of fixed singular national identities and underscores the importance of dual identifications within and across the borders of the constituent nations in advancing our understanding of twentieth-century Britain.

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Section: Second World War Mobilizationmentioning

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“The Band of Brothers”: The Mobilization of English Welsh Dual Identities in Second World War Britain

Ugolini¹

2021

J. Br. Stud.

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“…This suggests that their correspondence was subject to intervention; their affective bond, despite two years of separation and institutionalisation, is undeniable and would have been apparent to emigration agents. Attention to this kind of personal testimony reflects our wider interest in challenging the image of emigration societies as emotionally distant and instead demonstrates the management of emotional connections between the emigrating charities and their charges, reflecting emerging scholarship on cross‐class and institutional friendships (Matthews‐Jones, 2016).…”

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Reintegrating agency, regulation and the economy into histories of child emigration from North West England to Canada, 1860–1930

2020

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In this article we bring the records of Liverpool‐based child emigration agencies into conversation with the archives of ‘Home’ children held at Libraries and Archives Canada, the Archives of Ontario (Toronto) and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto Archives. Our aim is to provide the first study to consider why the North West emerged as the British centre of child emigration during the period 1860–1930, and examine the shared emigration infrastructure between its institutions and agents with those in Canada, through which we hope to advance comparative transnational research into child separation as a feature of welfare systems since the late‐nineteenth century. Our key claims are the following: (1) that children and their families DID challenge, resist and question the system, though not always expressed through their limited ability to give consent to emigration; (2) that the purported welfarist impulses of child emigration schemes were frequently in tension with the everyday administrative and financial concerns that characterised exchanges over child migrants between state and institution, bespeaking a broader economy of child emigration schemes that has thus far been under‐examined in the scholarship.

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Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland

Farrell¹

2020

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GPB), 2 March 1896 (National Archives of Ireland (hereafter NAI), GPB/Pen/1896/34). Excepting headings, capitalisation and punctuation remains as in the original. 2 Daily state of Mountjoy Female Convict Prison, 3 September 1875 (NAI, Government Prisons Office (hereafter GPO) correspondence, 1875/1523). 5 James Lawson to the undersecretary, 10 October 1879 (NAI, Convict Reference File (hereafter CRF), O-8-1882). Full names are used throughout this book because they are provided in the records, which are open to the public. It would be dehumanising to change or anonymise the women's names.

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'I still remain one of the old Settlement boys': Cross-class Friendship in the First World War Letters of Cardiff University Settlement Lads’ Club

Cited by 14 publications

References 2 publications

“The Band of Brothers”: The Mobilization of English Welsh Dual Identities in Second World War Britain

“The Band of Brothers”: The Mobilization of English Welsh Dual Identities in Second World War Britain

Reintegrating agency, regulation and the economy into histories of child emigration from North West England to Canada, 1860–1930

Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland

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