TY - CHAP
T1 - War Memorialised: How the UK remembers its wars and its dead
AU - Hamourtziadou, Lily
PY - 2026/3/9
Y1 - 2026/3/9
N2 - War memorials serve as reminders of heroism, sacrifice and an official/acceptable national past. In the case of the UK, militarism and military romanticism, as well as the existence of an imperialist past (and present), determine how memories of war and its dead are made. The chapter explores the role of national myths and state-sponsored patriotic narratives in historical framing: in how the nation’s virtues, triumphs and past moral victories are repeated now. A sanitised national history provides a usable, exclusive heroism, and at the same time establishes which casualties are remembered or memorialised, and which are not. The author uses the research, findings and database of the NGO Iraq Body Count.
AB - War memorials serve as reminders of heroism, sacrifice and an official/acceptable national past. In the case of the UK, militarism and military romanticism, as well as the existence of an imperialist past (and present), determine how memories of war and its dead are made. The chapter explores the role of national myths and state-sponsored patriotic narratives in historical framing: in how the nation’s virtues, triumphs and past moral victories are repeated now. A sanitised national history provides a usable, exclusive heroism, and at the same time establishes which casualties are remembered or memorialised, and which are not. The author uses the research, findings and database of the NGO Iraq Body Count.
UR - https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/17129/
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Role-of-Memory-in-War-Politics-and-Post-Conflict-Reconciliation-Historical-Memory-in-Crisis/Hamourtziadou-Lukasik/p/book/9781041093398
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781041093398
T3 - Innovations in International Affairs
SP - 9
EP - 23
BT - The Role of Memory in War Politics and Post-Conflict Reconciliation
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - New York
ER -