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Chanak and the memory of Gallipoli: A British crisis of cultural demobilisation

Macleod, Jenny

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The Chanak crisis of September-October 1922 brought the British government to the brink of international warfare. Although Britain observes 11 November 1918 as the end of the First World War, perhaps it is Chanak that truly marks the end of Britain’s Greater War. Echoing the strategic considerations that had prompted the Gallipoli campaign of 1915, and with many of the same political leaders involved (Kemal, Lloyd George, Churchill, Hughes, Massey), Chanak prompted a domestic and imperial crisis and demonstrated the limits of cynical uses of memory. This article uses Chanak to explore how cultural demobilisation intersects with diplomacy and statecraft.

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Macleod, J. (online). Chanak and the memory of Gallipoli: A British crisis of cultural demobilisation. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2025.2465985

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 7, 2025
Online Publication Date Feb 20, 2025
Deposit Date Feb 7, 2025
Publicly Available Date Aug 21, 2026
Journal Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Print ISSN 0308-6534
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2025.2465985
Keywords Chanak; Gallipoli; First World War; Demobilisation
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5038601

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© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.




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