“By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914

Young, John W.

All Outputs (8)

Monarchy, Protestantism and Revolution, 1603-1714 (2019)
Book Chapter
Merritt, J. (2019). Monarchy, Protestantism and Revolution, 1603-1714. Westminster Abbey: A Church in History (179-223). New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West (2019)
Book Chapter
LUTTON, R. (2019). Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West. In Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages (129-153). Leiden /Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004409422_009

From the eleventh century onward, there was an increasing preoccupation in Western Christianity with Christ’s humanity and suffering body. This “Christocentric turn” was not just towards the bloodied human body of Christ but also towards his human na... Read More about Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West.

Family, Loyalty and the Royal Household in Fourteenth Century England (2019)
Book Chapter
Hefferan, M. (2019). Family, Loyalty and the Royal Household in Fourteenth Century England. In D. Green, & C. Given-Wilson (Eds.), Fourteenth Century England XI (129-154). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvd58txc.12

Trust: Business networks and the borough court (2019)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2019). Trust: Business networks and the borough court. In R. Goddard, & T. Phipps (Eds.), Town courts and urban society in late medieval England, 1250-1500. , (176-99). Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer

Loci of political power: the 1917 Russian Revolution from regional perspectives (2019)
Book Chapter
BADCOCK, S. (2019). Loci of political power: the 1917 Russian Revolution from regional perspectives. In L. Adamski, & B. Gajos (Eds.), Circles of the Russian Revolution internal and international consequences of the year 1917 in RussiaTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

The Formation of the Liberal Generation in Austria, c1830-1861: Education, Revolution and State Service (2019)
Book Chapter
Kwan, J. (2019). The Formation of the Liberal Generation in Austria, c1830-1861: Education, Revolution and State Service. In F. Adlgasser, & F. Lindstrom (Eds.), The Habsburg Civil Service and Beyond. Bureaucracy and Civil Servants from the Vormärz to the Inter-War Years (67-95). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences

Travel to Siberian exile, 1905-1917 (2019)
Book Chapter
Badcock, S. (2019). Travel to Siberian exile, 1905-1917. In Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past, 32-45. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

“By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914 (2019)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2020). “By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914. In B. McKercher, & A. Capet (Eds.), Winston Churchill : At War and Thinking of War before 1939. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

As first lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill was at the centre of the Liberal government’s decision-making during the July crisis. The July crisis unfolded quickly. Britain’s preoccupation for most of the month was Ireland, where civil war threa... Read More about “By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914.