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Dr Jenny Macleod's Outputs (26)

Chanak and the memory of Gallipoli: A British crisis of cultural demobilisation (2025)
Journal Article
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

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... Read More about Chanak and the memory of Gallipoli: A British crisis of cultural demobilisation.

Conscription and the British World (2024)
Book Chapter
Macleod, J. (2024). Conscription and the British World. In J. Mann, & B. Zielinski (Eds.), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge (79-94). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648

A key concern in Carl Bridge’s work has been to explore the relationship between the Dominions and the British Empire, frequently drawing comparisons through the lens of wartime. Through a series of articles, conferences and an edited book exploring... Read More about Conscription and the British World.

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.

Nation, memory and great war commemoration: mobilizing the past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand: edited by Shanti Sumartojo and Ben Wellings, Bern, Peter Lang, 2014, 329 pp., US $72.95 (hbk), ISBN 9-783-0343-0937-0 (2019)
Journal Article
Macleod, J. (2019). Nation, memory and great war commemoration: mobilizing the past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand: edited by Shanti Sumartojo and Ben Wellings, Bern, Peter Lang, 2014, 329 pp., US $72.95 (hbk), ISBN 9-783-0343-0937-0. First World War Studies, 10(1), 162-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2019.1657311

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.

Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916–39 (2017)
Book Chapter
Macleod, J. (2017). Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916–39. In K. Ariotti, & J. E. Bennett (Eds.), Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts (185-201). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51520-5

The First World War set in train the development of ideas and traditions that had profound implications for nations and for national identity. Whilst the British Empire grew in size at war’s end, revolution and war beset the United Kingdom, the very... Read More about Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916–39.

Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916-39 (2017)
Book Chapter
Macleod, J. (2017). Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916-39. In K. Ariotti, & J. E. Bennett (Eds.), Australians and the First World War : Local-Global Connections and Contexts (185-201). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51520-5_11

The First World War set in train the development of ideas and traditions that had profound implications for nations and for national identity. Whilst the British Empire grew in size at war’s end, revolution and war beset the United Kingdom, the very... Read More about Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916-39.

The Gallipoli centenary: An international perspective (2016)
Book Chapter
Macleod, J. (2016). The Gallipoli centenary: An international perspective. In B. West (Ed.), War memory and commemoration (89-106). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315572802

The centenary of the invasion of Turkey by the combined forces of the British and French empires was marked around the world on 25 April 2015. Leading the way was Australia, a country that has built a national identity around the Anzacs who landed at... Read More about The Gallipoli centenary: An international perspective.

Gallipoli (2015)
Book
Macleod, J. (2015). Gallipoli. Oxford University Press

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.

Memorials and location: Local versus national identity and the Scottish National War Memorial (2010)
Journal Article
Macleod, J. (2010). Memorials and location: Local versus national identity and the Scottish National War Memorial. Scottish Historical Review, 89(1), 73-95. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2010.0004

This article seeks to explore the controversy surrounding the Scottish National War Memorial. It analyses the arguments over the design of the memorial and its impact on Edinburgh Castle. The criticisms by Lord Rosebery and others of the design propo... Read More about Memorials and location: Local versus national identity and the Scottish National War Memorial.

Defeat and memory: Cultural histories of military defeat in the modern era (2008)
Book
Macleod, J. (Ed.). (2008). Defeat and memory: Cultural histories of military defeat in the modern era. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582798

The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and rem... Read More about Defeat and memory: Cultural histories of military defeat in the modern era.