Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916
The View from Downing Street
(Sprache: Englisch)
Provides previously unpublished source material relating to the highest levels of the British government during the first two years of the First World War
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Provides previously unpublished source material relating to the highest levels of the British government during the first two years of the First World War
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Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith's early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and replaced by Lloyd George, whose career he had done so much to promote. Margot had both the literary gifts and the vantage point to create, in her diary of these years, a compelling record of her husband's fall from grace. She once described herself as 'a sort of political clairvoyant', but she did not anticipate the premier's fall, and it is for her candour, not her clairvoyance, that the diary is valuable. Margot was both a spectator of, and a participant in, the events that she describes, and in public affairs could be an ally or an embarrassment - sometimes both. Her diary evokes the wartime milieu, as experienced in 10 Downing Street, and describes the great political battles that lay behind the warfare on the Western Front. Her writing teems with character sketches, including those of Lloyd George ('a natural adventurer who may make or mar himself any day'), Churchill ('Winston's vanity is septic'), and Kitchener ('a man brutal by nature and by pose'). Witty and worldly, Margot also possessed a childlike vulnerability: 'This is the 84th day of the war' she wrote in October 1914, 'and speaking for myself I have never felt the same person since. I don't mean to say I have improved! On the contrary...'.
This volume brings together a wealth of previously-unpublished source material with an introductory essay from Michael and Eleanor Brock, two of the leading authorities in the field. This will be vital reading for anyone with an interest in the history of World War I or in British politics of the time.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916 “
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Editorial note
- List of illustrations
- Family Trees
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Margot's Diary
- 1: 24 July to 7 August 1914
- 2: 10 August to 21 December 1914
- 3: January to 13 April 1915
- 4: 17 April to 19 May 1915
- 5: 20 May to 3 August 1915
- 6: 4 August to 15 November 1915
- 7: 16 November 1915 to 4 May 1916
- 8: 5 May to 29 August 1916
- 9: 17 September to 14 December 1916
- Epilogue
- Short titles (and bibliography) of sources used
- Appendix 1: Biographical notes
Autoren-Porträt
Michael Brock was a modern historian, educationalist, and Oxford college head; he was Vice-President of Wolfson College; Director of the School of Education at Exeter University; Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford; and Warden of St George's House, Windsor Castle; he is the author of The Great Reform Act, and co-editor, with Mark Curthoys, of the two nineteenth-century volumes in the History of the University of Oxford. With his wife, Eleanor Brock, a former schoolteacher, he edited the acclaimed OUP edition H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley. Michael Brock died in April 2014.Bibliographische Angaben
- 2014, 568 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Michael Brock, Eleanor Brock
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198229771
- ISBN-13: 9780198229773
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.06.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
This book is full of minor gems, throwing light on the extraordinary domestic bubble within which the wartime premier operated... the editors have provided us with a rollicking good read! Journal of Liberal History, David Dutton
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