Contested Objects

Introduction 1. âJust a Boyish Habitââ¦? 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 âTrench Clubâ: Typology, Use and Cultural Meaning 4. The Journey Back: On the Nature of Donations to the In Flanders Fields Museum 5. âBrothers in Armsâ â" 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. âThe Returned Soldiers Bugâ: Making the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne 11. Exploring a Language of Grief in First World War Headstone Inscriptions 12. âPâraps I Shall See Youâ¦â: Recognition of Loved Ones in Non-fiction Film of the First World War 13. âA Few Broad Stripesâ: Perception, Deception and the âDazzle Shipâ Phenomenon of WWI 14. Message and Materiality in Mesopotamia, 1916â"17: My Grandfatherâs Diary, Social Commemoration and the Experience of War 15. Postcards from the Past: War, Landscape, and Place in Argonne, France 16. âCalculating the Futureâ: Panoramic Sketching, Reconnaissance Drawing and the Material Trace of War 17. Archaeology of the Great War: The Flemish Experience 18. âSlowly Our Ghosts Drag Homeâ: 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