When The Lamps Went Out: From Home Front To Battle Front Reporting The Great War 1914-18
by Nigel Fountain /
2014 / English / EPUB
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Official censorship meant that reports of the First World War published in the Manchester Guardian were limited, but from today's perspective they give a sense of what British society was thinking and reading about at the time. This collection of articles from the paper's archive also allows us a wider view of contemporary attitudes, with reports on the music hall, the impact of Charlie Chaplin, the 'Country Diary' and international events such as the Easter Rising and the Russian RevolutionDrawn from the Guardian's coverage of the first world war, When the Lamps Went Out portrays a society in cataclysm and proves the adage that journalism is the 'first draft of history'.
The lamps are going out all over Europe we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.'
Sir Edward Grey, British foreign secretary, 3 August 1914
When the Lamps Went Out presents a surprising, immediate, sometimes humbling, sometimes uplifting insight into what British society was reading about, and thinking, during the Great War.
