Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Easy. Workers' militia. Next!dons fatigues and supercilious frown
and how will you protect your 'better world' from evil powers that would bring it all down, eh? eh? eh? You can't handle the truth etc
Easy. Workers' militia. Next!dons fatigues and supercilious frown
and how will you protect your 'better world' from evil powers that would bring it all down, eh? eh? eh? You can't handle the truth etc
And whether to pronounce British Expeditionary Force as B E F or BEFThank fuck the army never needed to call upon the U75 regiment.
Within hours the group would have been riven with infighting, petty but never ending arguments and would have simultaneously insisted on over thinking the job at hand: which was to run toward a certain death over muddy fields on the orders of a public school boy general.
And whether to pronounce British Expeditionary Force as B E F or BEF
True enough, but fighting for King and Country wasn't so popular in Ireland either. There were lots of volunteers, particularly amongst the Protestant community, but even there the % joining up was a good deal lower than on the mainland. And Ireland never saw conscription.Fighting for Ireland wasn't very fashionable until the 1916 rebels were executed. I'd like to think I'd have at least, cheered for the end of Empire, though.
I don't know your politics (anarchist? socialist? Lefty?) but if you're an awkward radical type nowadays you probably would have been back then. In which case you would have been a minority, or seemed like one at times, but you wouldn't have been alone. If you could withstand the pressure to volunteer initially you'd have had the time, even, to emigrate to avoid conscription. Some did just that.Knowing what I do now; no, knowing what I probably would have then; yes.
The question reminds me of the whole "if you were born in Victorian Britain..." idea. I'd be packed into a slum house with 10 others in the same bed, not lording it up.
Since this thread started I've thought about it a little more. If I'd been with the German part of the family, I would probably already have been at sea with my great grandfather, taking advantage of his position. My mother is half Danish so I'd possibly have been neutral then, unless they were in S Jutland, which seems possible.
If I'd been with my father's side of the family I'd either have been in Spain or Canada. If Spain, I'd have been neutral, so not have joined up. If Canada I'd have waited till being called up.
ETAgiven my grandfather was a Newfie I'd almost certainly ended up going to war.
True enough, but fighting for King and Country wasn't so popular in Ireland either. There were lots of volunteers, particularly amongst the Protestant community, but even there the % joining up was a good deal lower than on the mainland. And Ireland never saw conscription.
I don't know your politics (anarchist? socialist? Lefty?) but if you're an awkward radical type nowadays you probably would have been back then. In which case you would have been a minority, or seemed like one at times, but you wouldn't have been alone. If you could withstand the pressure to volunteer initially you'd have had the time, even, to emigrate to avoid conscription. Some did just that.
by 1914 62% of the population of england lived within a library authority areaI'm not sure that I'd have had the information, though.
In the early 1900s, a theoretical version of me doesn't have the Internet and probably not even a library,
by 1914 62% of the population of england lived within a library authority area
so probably yes a library
Weren't coal miners protected?