This black horror of inconceivability' : dissenters in British foreign policy and Britain's rush to war, July-August 1914

Douglas J. Newton

This black horror of inconceivability' : dissenters in British foreign policy and Britain's rush to war, July-August 1914

Douglas J. Newton

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![CDATA[In the first days of the Great War, Goldie Dickinson, the Radical internationalist thinker, went on his summer holidays to Herefordshire. He picnicked with friends by the River Wye. In his memoir, he cpatured the moment: As we sat by the river, in that marvellous summer, it seemed incredible what was going on over the water in France ... The perfect weather continued, and the dumb impotent feeling of the gulf between nature, the past, all beautiful true and gracious things and beliefs, and this black horror of inconceivability that nevertheless was true. Such a reference might encourage those who believe that the British Radicals and others who resisted Britain's intervention in the continental war (up to 4 August 1914), and then campaigned openly for a negotiated settlement (from late 1915), are scarcely worth consideration.]]

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Terror, War, Tradition : Studies in European History : Proceedings of the XVth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European History (Melbourne, July 2005)
Publisher	Australian Humanities Press
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Print)	9780975831328
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	Australasian Association of European History. Conference - Duration: 1 Jan 2007 → …

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Conference	Australasian Association of European History. Conference
Period	1/01/07 → …

Keywords

dissenters
international relations
World War, 1914-1918
radicals
Great Britain

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Newton, DJ 2007, This black horror of inconceivability' : dissenters in British foreign policy and Britain's rush to war, July-August 1914. in Terror, War, Tradition : Studies in European History : Proceedings of the XVth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European History (Melbourne, July 2005). Australian Humanities Press, Australasian Association of European History. Conference, 1/01/07.

This black horror of inconceivability' : dissenters in British foreign policy and Britain's rush to war, July-August 1914. / Newton, Douglas J.
Terror, War, Tradition : Studies in European History : Proceedings of the XVth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European History (Melbourne, July 2005). Australian Humanities Press, 2007.

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