A Century of Remembrance, Laura Clouting
A Century of Remembrance, Laura Clouting
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A Century of Remembrance

Author: Laura Clouting

Narrator: Angela Ness

Unabridged: 6 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Headline

Published: 11/05/2020


Synopsis

The scale and nature of the First World War, and the manner in which the dead were treated, created conditions in which a very particular language of grief and remembrance of the war dead flourished.

A Century of Remembrance explores the deeply personal ways in which people mourned their loved ones, and memorialised them, and examines the cornerstones of national-scale remembrance that took hold in Britain throughout the 1920s, from the poppy to the cenotaph.

(P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Limited

About Laura Clouting

Laura Clouting is Senior Curator Historian in the First World War and Early 20th Century team at IWM. She wrote the introduction to the popular Victory in the Kitchen: Wartime Recipes (2016).


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on November 07, 2025

I did not actually read this particular book by Laura Clouting. I read The Poppy by her, a Symbol of Remembrance. I bought it at the War Museum in London this fall. It is not on Goodreads. It won’t let me add unless I am a librarian. I am a retired librarian! The Poppy is a beautiful little book abo......more