Mediating militarism: Chronicalling 100 years of British 'Military Victimhood' from print to digital, 1918-2018

调解军国主义：从印刷到数字记录100年的军事受害者，1918-2018旨在评估军国主义及其在纪念第一次世界大战结束以来英国战争死难者中的作用。2018年是第一次世界大战结束一百周年，为这一研究项目的发展提供了一个框架。该项目将利用大英图书馆获取和保存的印刷和数字材料的独特途径，记录公众对英国战争死难者的描述从印刷到数字时代的变化，评估这一描述在这一过程中调停军国主义的作用。在整个历史上，军国主义没有一个明确的例子，因为这个概念的每一种表现形式都有这样或那样的不同。所有的例子可能本质上都与美化战争思维之类的理想联系在一起，但在截然相反的社会政治环境中，这些军国主义的实现可能会采取彼此往往认不出来的形式。在此基础上，军国主义以各种方式表现出来，严重依赖于当代政治，以及军事和社会发展。就英国而言，围绕第一次世界大战的国家叙事在该国自身形式的军国主义的发展中发挥了关键作用。英国参与第一次世界大战的性质意味着，在1918年11月11日停战之后，为了方便整个国家的哀悼，发展了许多纪念活动。战后，在国外牺牲的英国士兵没有被遣返，这意味着有形的哀悼地点被创造出来，作为英国人纪念的焦点。通过发展一种围绕纪念战争死难者的独特语言和象征，这些纪念做法一直延续到今天，并使英国人对军事和发动战争的态度变得饱和。这项研究项目将首先通过大英图书馆策划的纸质和数字资源，记录过去一个世纪中被称为“军事受害者”的情况。然后，这些文物将被审问，以探索这种“军事受害者”的表现如何潜在地充当英国社会军国主义的调解人。通过对这些资源的审查，将形成与混合收藏有关的方法做法，如大英图书馆的报纸收藏和英国网络档案馆，并将纳入关于获取、存储和导航这些资源的策展工作。最后，希望这些进程将有助于大英图书馆更好地了解其印刷品和数字藏品的价值、挑战和局限性，以及如何加强其未来对社会科学研究人员的使用。

Mediating Militarism: Chronicling 100 Years of Military Victimhood from Print to Digital, 1918-2018 aims to assess militarism and its role in the commemoration of the British war dead since the end of the First World War. 2018 marks the centenary of the cessation of the First World War and provides a framework through which this research project will develop. The project will take advantage of unique access to print and digital materials captured and held by the British Library in order to chronicle the changing public portrayal of the British war dead from the print to the digital age, evaluating the role this portrayal plays in the mediation of militarism in the process. No one definitive example of militarism exists throughout history, as each manifestation of the concept varies in one way or another. All examples may be intrinsically linked to ideals such as the glorification of war-like thinking, but in diametrically opposed socio-political environments these realisations of militarism can take forms often unrecognisable to one another. From this basis, militarism manifests itself in a variety of ways that depend heavily on contemporary politics, alongside both military and social developments. In the case of Britain, national narratives surrounding the First World War have played a key role in the development of the nation's own form of militarism. The nature of Britain's involvement in the First World War meant that following the Armistice of 11th November 1918, a multitude of commemorative practices were developed in order to facilitate the mourning of an entire nation. British soldiers who had died abroad were not repatriated following the war meaning tangible sites of mourning were created as focal points of British remembrance. Through the development of a unique language and symbology surrounding the commemoration of the war dead these commemorative practices continue into the present day and have saturated British attitudes to the military and the waging of war. This research project will first chronicle this past century of representations of what is referred to as 'military victimhood' through both print and digital resources curated by the British Library. These cultural artefacts will then be interrogated so as to explore how representations of this 'military victimhood' have potentially acted as mediators of militarism in British society. Through the examination of these resources methodological practices will be developed in relation to working with mixed collections, such as the British Library's newspaper collections and the UK Web Archive, and will feed into curatorial work on the capture, storage and navigation of such resources. Finally, it is hoped that these processes will aid the British Library in better understanding the value, challenges and limitations of their print and digital collections, and how their future use can be enhanced for researchers in the social sciences.