FURTHER READING

Britain and the First World War:

Braybon, G., Women workers in the First World War: The British Experience (London: Croom Helm, 1981)

DeGroot, G.J., Back in Blighty: The British at Home in World War One (London: Vintage, Rev Upd edition 2014)

Gregory, A., The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Hayes, J., The Enemy Within: Picturing, Confronting and Confining the ‘Alien’ in Lancaster and Morecambe during the First World War (Lancaster University, 2016)

Panayi, P., The Enemy in Our Midst : Germans in Britain during the First World War. (New York: Berg, 1991)

Winter, J., The Great War and the British People. 2nd edition. (London: Palgrave, 2003)

Lancaster during the War:

Fidler, J., Lancaster in the Great War (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2016)

Gooderson, P.J., Lord Linoleum: Lord Ashton, Lancaster and the Rise of the British Oilcloth and Linoleum Industry (Keele: Keele UP, 1996).

Graves, R., Goodbye to All That (London: Penguin, 2000) (Robert Graves’ 1929 autobiography, which includes an account of his time as a guard at the Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works on Caton Road)

Harrison, P., Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School. The First Century … Continuity and Change (Martin Print & Design, 2006)

Shevin-Coetzee, M., and Coetzee. F., Commitment and Sacrifice: Personal Diaries from the Great War (Oxford University Press, 2015) (includes a reprint of the diary of Willy Wolff who was interned at the Caton Road Wagon Works and Knockaloe)

www.britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/default/files/06%20The%20National%20Factory%20Scheme%20List.pdf (describes National Factory Scheme)

www.documentingdissent.org.uk (for fascinating coverage of various dimensions of Lancaster’s experience at war)

Lancaster on the eve of the War:

lancastercivicsociety.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/canalside-mills-c.docx (‘Lancaster’s Canalside Mills’ [Lancaster Civic Society Leaflet 21])

Winstanley, M., A History of Lancaster, 1193–1993 (Keele: Ryburn/Keele University Press, 1993) (see pp145–198, Chapter: ‘The town transformed, 1815–1914’)

www.archaeologyuk.org/lahs/Contrebis/20_39_Price.pdf (Lancaster Archaeological and Historical Society’s ‘Contrebis’ journal, Volume 20, 1995, ‘Industry And Changes In Its Location In Nineteenth Century Lancaster’)

Military history and casualties:

Cowper, J.M., The King’s Own: The story of a royal regiment. Volume III. 1914-1950. (Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1957)

Gregory, I.N., & Peniston-Bird, C.M., The First World War: Commemoration and Memory. (London: Routledge, 2017)

Hodgkinson, A., The King’s Own, 1/5th Battalion, TF in the European War, 1914–1918. (Lancaster: King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, 2005)

MacDonald, L., 1915: The death of innocence (London: Penguin, 1997), (contains vivid accounts of what both Second Ypres and Loos would have been like for ordinary soldiers)

wp.lancs.ac.uk/greatwar (provides online access to Reveille, Streets of Mourning, Lancaster in the Great War: Community Memories and the Great War Trail App)

www.kingsownmuseum.com/ww1.htm (King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum website)

www.lancasterwarmemorials.org.uk (provides online access to Reveille)

www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/battles-of-the-western-front-in-france-and-flanders/the-battle-of-loos (provides statistics from the war and a more factual description of the Battle of Loos)