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Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018 (2022)
Journal Article
Macleod, J. (2022). Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018. British Journal for Military History, 8(3), 2-16. https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v8i3.1641

This is the text of a keynote presentation to the Second World War Research Group's Annual Conference in 2019. It reflects on the centenary commemorations for 1914-1918 from the perspective of a First World War historian to suggest some lessons for t... Read More about Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018.

A century of Armistice Day: memorialisation in the wake of the First World War (2019)
Journal Article
Macleod, J., & Inall, Y. (2020). A century of Armistice Day: memorialisation in the wake of the First World War. Mortality, 25(1), 48-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2019.1611752

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In the wake of the First World War a set of commemorative traditions were invented that were met with a huge public response and were repeated in every subsequent November. These... Read More about A century of Armistice Day: memorialisation in the wake of the First World War.

Sir lan Hamilton y las consecuencias de los Dardanelos (2015)
Journal Article
Macleod, J. (2015). Sir lan Hamilton y las consecuencias de los Dardanelos. Desperta Ferro Contemporánea, 47--49

El desastroso intento de forzar el paso de los Dardanelos en 1915 supuso una humillación para el Imperio británico y un fracaso que pondría fin a la carrera del general sir Ian Hamilton, comandante en jefe de la Fuerza Expedicionaria del Mediterráneo... Read More about Sir lan Hamilton y las consecuencias de los Dardanelos.

Britishness and commemoration: National memorials to the First World War in Britain and Ireland (2013)
Journal Article
Macleod, J. (2013). Britishness and commemoration: National memorials to the First World War in Britain and Ireland. Journal of Contemporary History, 48(4), 647-665. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009413493940

The 1917 call for a national memorial to the First World War led to the establishment of the Imperial War Museum in London. It also inspired Scottish, Welsh and Irish national memorials. No English national memorial was ever proposed; instead the Cen... Read More about Britishness and commemoration: National memorials to the First World War in Britain and Ireland.

General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles commission (2001)
Journal Article
MacLeod, J. (2001). General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles commission. War in History, 8(4), 418-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/096834450100800403

This article traces some aspects of the story behind-the-scenes at the Dardanelles commission which account for the bland nature of its reports. It focuses in particular upon the clandestine attempts by General Sir Ian Hamilton to influence the verdi... Read More about General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles commission.