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Review Article: British Society and the First World War

A most important contribution to the field of First World War studies has been the ‘cultural turn’ of the past two decades. This new understanding affects how we re-evaluate the war’s impact on Britain (and beyond), driven by the interaction of social and cultural history which has helped historians to disentangle myth and memory from the reality of contemporary experiences of the war. It is by ‘zooming in’ on the specifics of experience that contours and complexities can be returned to the foreground. After all, ‘cultural history is a history of the intimate ... a history of signifying practices; it studies how men and women make sense of the world in which they live’.1 Adrian Gregory’s eagerly anticipated The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War is a fresh look at how British society understood and endured the war. For Gregory, in many respects ‘the British