Veterans of the First World War

David Swift is the Kreitman Postdoctoral Fellow at Ben Gurion University of the NegevOliver Wilkinson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction British Veterans after the First World WarDavid Swift & Oliver WilkinsonChapter 1. The Deep Roots of The British Legion: The Emergence of First World War British Veterans’ OrganisationsMike HallyChapter 2. Ex-servicemen and the Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association, 1919-21Paul HuddieChapter 3. Between Workers and Soldiers: The Relationship between the Labour Party and Ex-servicemen after the First World WarMarcus MorrisChapter 4. ‘A Fighting Man and a Thinking Man’: The British Left, Ex-Servicemen, and Working-Class Culture, 1914-1924David SwiftChapter 5. Revolution, Ex-Servicemen, and the Cork Branch of the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Sailors and Soldiers, 1918-21John BorgonovoChapter 6. ‘It’s up to you now to fight for your own country’: Ireland’s Great War Veterans in the War of Independence, 1919-21Steven O’ConnorChapter 7. ‘Still in the Ranks of the Old Corps, Though Not on Active Service’: Women’s Veteran Organisations in Interwar Britain.Krisztina RobertChapter 8. Paternalism and Prosthetics: Life for Disabled Veterans and Their Families on a Post-War SettlementMartin PurdyChapter 9. Wounded in a Mentionable Place: The (In)visibility of the Disabled Ex-serviceman in Inter-war BritainJessica MeyerChapter 10. Ex-Prisoners of War, 1914-18: Veteran Association, Assimilation and Disassociation After the First World WarOliver WilkinsonBibliographyIndex