Contested Objects

Introduction 1. 'Just a Boyish Habit'...? British and Commonwealth War Trophies in the First World War 2. Shaping Matter, Meaning and Mentalities: The German Steel Helmet from Artefact to Afterlife 3. The Great War 'Trench Club': Typology, Use and Cultural Meaning 4. The Journey Back: On the Nature of Donations to the In Flanders Fields Museum 5. 'Brothers in Arms' - Masonic Artefacts of the First World War and its Aftermath 6. Subversive Material: African Embodiments of Modern War 7. Medals, Memory and Meaning: Symbolism and Cultural Significance of Great War Medals 8. Distinguishing the Uniform: British Military Heraldry and Group Identity 9. The Consumer Sphinx: From French Trench to Parisian Market 10. 'The Returned Soldiers Bug': Making the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne 11. Exploring a Language of Grief in First World War Headstone Inscriptions 12. 'P'raps I Shall See You...': Recognition of Loved Ones in Non-fiction Film of the First World War 13. 'A Few Broad Stripes': Perception, Deception and the 'Dazzle Ship' Phenomenon of WWI 14. Message and Materiality in Mesopotamia, 1916-17: My Grandfather's Diary, Social Commemoration and the Experience of War 15. Postcards from the Past: War, Landscape, and Place in Argonne, France 16. 'Calculating the Future': Panoramic Sketching, Reconnaissance Drawing and the Material Trace of War 17. Archaeology of the Great War: The Flemish Experience 18. 'Slowly Our Ghosts Drag Home': Human Remains from the Heidenkopf, Serre, Somme, France 19. Great War Archaeology on the Glaciers of the Alps 20. Training for Trench Warfare: The Archaeological Evidence from Salisbury Plain