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

调解军国主义：《1918-2018年从印刷到数字的100年军事受害者编年史》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者中的作用。2018年是第一次世界大战结束一百周年，并为该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，记录从印刷到数字时代英国战争死者的公众形象的变化，评估这种形象在调解军国主义过程中所起的作用。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以这样或那样的方式不同。所有的例子都可能与理想有着内在的联系，比如对战争思维的美化，但是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无法识别的形式。在此基础上，军国主义以各种方式表现出来，这些方式在很大程度上取决于当代政治，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军国主义形式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日停战后，为了促进整个国家的哀悼，制定了许多纪念活动。战争结束后，在国外阵亡的英国士兵没有被遣返回国，这意味着建立了有形的哀悼场所，作为英国纪念活动的焦点。通过围绕纪念战争死难者的独特语言和符号的发展，这些纪念活动一直持续到今天，并渗透到英国对军事和发动战争的态度中。这项研究项目将首先通过大英图书馆策划的印刷和数字资源，记录过去世纪中被称为“军事受害者”的表现。然后将对这些文物进行审问，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媒介。通过对这些资源的审查，将制定与混合收藏（如大英图书馆的报纸收藏和英国网络档案馆）有关的方法实践，并将为这些资源的捕获，存储和导航的策展工作提供信息。最后，希望这些过程将有助于大英图书馆更好地了解其印刷和数字馆藏的价值，挑战和局限性，以及如何为社会科学研究人员提高未来的使用。

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.