The collection offers updates to existing scholarship while bringing new departures and challenges to the current interpretive frameworks of veteran experiences in post-war Britain and Ireland.

David Swift is the Kreitman Postdoctoral Fellow at Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Oliver Wilkinson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction British Veterans after the First World War

David Swift & Oliver Wilkinson

Chapter 1. The Deep Roots of The British Legion: The Emergence of First World War British Veterans' Organisations

Mike Hally

Chapter 2. Ex-servicemen and the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, 1919-21

Paul Huddie

Chapter 3. Between Workers and Soldiers: The Relationship between the Labour Party and Ex-servicemen after the First World War

Marcus Morris

Chapter 4. 'A Fighting Man and a Thinking Man': The British Left, Ex-Servicemen, and Working-Class Culture, 1914-1924

David Swift

Chapter 5. Revolution, Ex-Servicemen, and the Cork Branch of the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Sailors and Soldiers, 1918-21

John Borgonovo

Chapter 6. 'It's up to you now to fight for your own country': Ireland's Great War Veterans in the War of Independence, 1919-21

Steven O'Connor

Chapter 7. 'Still in the Ranks of the Old Corps, Though Not on Active Service': Women's Veteran Organisations in Interwar Britain.

Krisztina Robert

Chapter 8. Paternalism and Prosthetics: Life for Disabled Veterans and Their Families on a Post-War Settlement

Martin Purdy

Chapter 9. Wounded in a Mentionable Place: The (In)visibility of the Disabled Ex-serviceman in Inter-war Britain

Jessica Meyer

Chapter 10. Ex-Prisoners of War, 1914-18: Veteran Association, Assimilation and Disassociation After the First World War

Oliver Wilkinson

Bibliography

Index