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  • 1 - Monarchist Mentalities and British Mobilisation, 1914–1916

  • from Part I - The Role of the British Monarchy in Cultural Mobilisation for War
  • Heather Jones, University College London
  • Book:
    For King and Country
    Published online:
    09 September 2021
    Print publication:
    23 September 2021, pp 43-100

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the role that monarchist beliefs played in war recruitment in Britain and in the British Empire. It looks at the ways that monarchist beliefs appeared in wartime propaganda, songs and recruitment campaigns as well as the monarchy’s importance to British legal and religious cultures. It examines how the first two years of the war saw the monarchy’s position consolidated and sacralised in Britain, arguing that the monarchy was central to British identity and associated with ideals of ‘honour’.