South African War (1899-1902) Memorials in Britain: A Case Study of Memorialization in London and Kent

摘要

Mass public commemoration of war dead is often held to be a twentieth-century phenomenon, with its genesis in the Great War. This article argues for a pre-history occasioned by commemoration of the South African War (1899-1902) that built on shifts in the form and function of war memorials that had begun in the middle of the nineteenth century.