Speaking to soldiers: historical consciousness and collective memory of the Great War amongst serving and retired soldiers of a Scottish infantry regiment
In the summer of 2017, a series of fifty-two confidential interviews were held with retired veteran and serving soldiers of The Black Watch, a Scottish infantry regiment, to establish whether a clearly identifiable core collective memory of the Great War existed within this regimental community at t...
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I28-R145-10991_oai2025-11-17 Fraser Brown, Norman Fraser Brown, Norman 2021-12-28 In the summer of 2017, a series of fifty-two confidential interviews were held with retired veteran and serving soldiers of The Black Watch, a Scottish infantry regiment, to establish whether a clearly identifiable core collective memory of the Great War existed within this regimental community at that time. Following a brief rationale for the choice of serving and retired soldiers as interviewees, an outline of working definitions of historical consciousness and collective memory is given. A description of the interviews and interviewees follows. Amongst the topics discussed in the interviews were visits to the battlefields of the Great War, the Scottish oral tradition, family involvement in the conflict, war poetry and film, inter-generational differences in perception of the war and formal remembrance. This article draws on the results of the interviews to examine interviewees perceptions of the conflict and describe the formation of historical consciousness of the war within the group. It finally concludes with an attempt to identify the core collective memory of the war within this regimental grouping at that time. En el verano de 2017, se llevaron a cabo una serie de cincuenta y dos entrevistas confidenciales con veteranos retirados y soldados en servicio del Black Watch, un regimiento de infantería escocés. Se buscaba establecer si existía una memoria colectiva central claramente identificable de la Gran Guerra dentro de esta comunidad de regimiento en ese momento. Luego de una breve explicación de la elección de soldados en servicio y retirados como entrevistados, se ofrece una descripción de las definiciones básicas de conciencia histórica y memoria colectiva. Posteriormente, se incluye una descripción de las entrevistas y los entrevistados. Entre los temas tratados en las entrevistas se encuentran las visitas a los campos de batalla de la Gran Guerra, la tradición oral escocesa, la participación familiar en el conflicto, la poesía y el cine de guerra, las diferencias intergeneracionales en la percepción de la guerra y la conmemoración formal. Este artículo recurre a los resultados de las entrevistas para examinar las percepciones de los entrevistados sobre el conflicto y describir la formación de la conciencia histórica de la guerra dentro del grupo. Finalmente, concluye con un intento de identificación del núcleo de la memoria colectiva de la guerra dentro de este grupo del regimiento en ese momento. application/pdf text/html https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/historiayguerra/article/view/10991 10.34096/hyg.n1.10991 eng Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/historiayguerra/article/view/10991/9888 https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/historiayguerra/article/view/10991/9889 Derechos de autor 2021 Norman Fraser Brown Historia & Guerra; No. 1 (2022): January-June; 70-88 Historia & Guerra; Núm. 1 (2022): Enero-Junio; 70-88 2796-8650 Black Watch identidad de regimiento Gran Guerra memoria tradiciones orales Black Watch regimental identity Great War memory oral traditions Speaking to soldiers: historical consciousness and collective memory of the Great War amongst serving and retired soldiers of a Scottish infantry regiment Hablando con soldados: conciencia histórica y memoria colectiva de la Gran Guerra entre soldados en servicio y retirados de un regimiento de infantería escocés info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Articles Artículos Artigos https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=histogue&d=10991_oai |
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In the summer of 2017, a series of fifty-two confidential interviews were held with retired veteran and serving soldiers of The Black Watch, a Scottish infantry regiment, to establish whether a clearly identifiable core collective memory of the Great War existed within this regimental community at that time. Following a brief rationale for the choice of serving and retired soldiers as interviewees, an outline of working definitions of historical consciousness and collective memory is given. A description of the interviews and interviewees follows. Amongst the topics discussed in the interviews were visits to the battlefields of the Great War, the Scottish oral tradition, family involvement in the conflict, war poetry and film, inter-generational differences in perception of the war and formal remembrance. This article draws on the results of the interviews to examine interviewees perceptions of the conflict and describe the formation of historical consciousness of the war within the group. It finally concludes with an attempt to identify the core collective memory of the war within this regimental grouping at that time. |
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