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table of contents
  1. Series Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of abbreviations
  8. Introduction
    1. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire
    2. Understanding militarism
    3. A peaceable kingdom?
    4. Tradition and technology
    5. Sources and structure
    6. Notes
  9. 1. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire
    1. The Navy League and the command of the sea
    2. The origins of the Air League of the British Empire
    3. The Navy and Air Leagues after 1918
      1. The Navy League
      2. The Air League
    4. Finances, funding and the far right
    5. The Navy League, the Air League and officialdom
    6. Women in the Navy and Air Leagues
    7. Charity
    8. Conclusion
    9. Notes
  10. 2. Disarmament, collective security and internationalism
    1. ‘Pacifist tendencies’
      1. The Navy League
      2. The Air League
    2. Organised militarism and the League of Nations Union
    3. ‘Insidious pacifist propaganda’
    4. The World Disarmament Conference, the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and the Second London Naval Treaty
      1. The Air League
      2. The Navy League
    5. An international air police force and the internationalisation of civil aviation
    6. Conclusion
    7. Notes
  11. 3. Rearmament, the merchants of death and the preparation for war
    1. Nerve centres and the knock-out blow
    2. ‘Remember the power of the newest bombs’
    3. The Navy League and ‘air protagonists’
    4. The many air leagues
    5. The merchants of death
    6. The Air League, rearmament and defence from the air
    7. The Navy League, the Merchant Navy and the preparation for war
    8. Conclusion
    9. Notes
  12. 4. Nation and empire
    1. Islandhood and insularity
    2. Pride, patriotism and technology
    3. Trade, communication and security
    4. Empire, imperial exhibitions and education
    5. Branches beyond Britain
    6. Conclusion
    7. Notes
  13. 5. Militarism, education and youth
    1. Youth and education
    2. The Sea Cadet Corps and the Air Defence Cadet Corps
    3. Physical culture and masculinity
    4. Militarism
    5. Recruitment
    6. Conclusion
    7. Notes
  14. 6. Trafalgar Day: naval heritage, tradition and national commemoration
    1. Origins and invention
    2. Ceremony, ritual and commemoration
    3. Trafalgar Day and the First World War at sea
    4. Local commemoration
    5. The Navy League and naval theatre
    6. Navalism and Nelson Day messages
    7. Conclusion
    8. Notes
  15. 7. Empire Air Day: aerial theatre and airmindedness
    1. Aerial theatre before Empire Air Day
    2. ‘At home’ with the RAF
    3. Airmindedness and the militarisation of British youth
    4. Empire and nation
    5. Reception and responses
    6. Conclusion
    7. Notes
  16. Conclusion
    1. Notes
  17. Epilogue: organised militarism and the Second World War
    1. The Navy League
    2. The Air League
    3. Notes
  18. Appendix I: Navy League Executive Committee, c.1918–39
    1. President
    2. Deputy President
    3. Chairman
    4. General Secretary
    5. Honorary Treasurer
  19. Appendix II: Air League Executive Committee, c.1918–39
    1. President
    2. Secretary
    3. Secretary General
    4. Chairman
    5. Vice/Deputy-Chairman
    6. Honorary Treasurer
    7. Deputy Honorary Treasurer
  20. Bibliography
    1. Primary sources
      1. Air League, London
      2. Ball State University, Archives and Special Collections, Muncie, Indiana
      3. Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
      4. British Library, London
      5. British Library of Political and Economic Science, London
      6. Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts Reading Room
      7. Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
      8. City of Westminster Archives Centre, London
      9. East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office at The Keep
      10. Hull History Centre
      11. Imperial College Archives, London
      12. Imperial War Museum, London
        1. Sound Archive
      13. International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive
      14. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College London
      15. London Metropolitan University
      16. Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry
      17. National Aerospace Library (Royal Aeronautical Society), Farnborough
      18. National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
      19. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
      20. National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh
      21. Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn
      22. Nuffield College, University of Oxford
      23. Parliamentary Archives, London
      24. Peace Pledge Union Archive, London
      25. Portsmouth History Centre
      26. Royal Air Force Museum, London
      27. Royal Archives, Windsor
      28. The London Archives
      29. The National Archives, Kew
      30. Select newspapers and periodicals
      31. Official papers and published documents
        1. Hansard
        2. Reports
        3. Books, articles and pamphlets
      32. Published diaries and memoirs
      33. Digital resources
      34. Newsreels
    2. Secondary sources
      1. Books
      2. Articles
      3. Unpublished theses
  21. Index

Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire

Rowan Thompson

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