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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Alf’s Button (1920): Comedy in the Trenches
verfasst von : Lawrence Napper
Erschienen in: Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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It seems difficult to over-estimate the effect that the Great War had on the experience of those who survived it. A. J. P. Taylor describes it as the moment when “the history of the English state and of the English people merged for the first time.”1 The state entered into civilian life in ways that had previously been unthinkable, restricting not only the freedoms of business, movement, and information, but also food consumption, leisure pursuits, and working practices. Through the conscription act,2 every member of the community became accountable to the state—their presence recorded in readiness to be called up either directly to the battlegrounds, or to war service at home.