The links below contain the material developed by students on the module IQ2/30920 The British Army’s Image in Battle, from the Crimean to the Present, during semester one of the academic year 2021-2022. We hope that you enjoy reading the students’ contributions.

The Victorian Era and Beyond

Ruby Beaman

Public perceptions and narratives of The Boer War and its legacy.

Peter Robotham

How prominent were the British Army in domestic society, compared to their German counterparts? (1900-1914)

The World Wars

Alexander Griffiths

Insiders and Outsiders in British First World War Generals

Samuel Ross Hemms

How has poetry been used from the First World War to describe the conflict from early 1914 to 1918 ?

Isaac Neale

A comparison of theme and techniques in British army recruitment materials between those of the First World War and today

Jacob Saunders Holland

How were the fine arts in Britain shaped by the Great War?

Tate Thomas

How did the Battle of the Somme affect British infantry tactics?

Noah Wilkinson

From Matildas to MBTs – British Tank Development in World War II

The Army after 1945

Joseph Eulogio

How the British army is portrayed and viewed as a colonial power by the British public and its former colonies ? Case study of the Suez Crisis and the Middle East

Ishbel O’Brien

Northern Ireland: The British Army and Other Murals

The modern British Army

Poppy Allen

Women In The Military: Recruitment vs Reality. Gender discourses of women in the military.

Adam James

Regenerating Support for the British Army as a Fighting Organisation

Harrison Kandler

Race and the Modern British Army

The British Army in popular culture

Edward Coker

How British Military Disasters Have Been Portrayed in Popular Culture Throughout History

Theodore Shorthouse

Out of the shadows and into the limelight- The relationship of the United kingdom’s special forces and the media post 9/11

Joshua Whitehead

The evolution of British memorialization since the Crimean war.