{"id":1135,"date":"2021-03-12T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T16:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2025-01-04T19:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T19:55:01","slug":"hot-spots-and-hinterlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hot spots\u2019 and \u2018Heartlands\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local histories of Britain\u2019s War Resisters 1914-1918<\/strong><br \/>\nThe SHS hosted speaker <strong>Cyril Pearce<\/strong> for an online talk at<strong> 2pm, Saturday, 24th April.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oPUVG80zhpM?start=644\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you wish to buy\u00a0either of Cyril&#8217;s books books &#8211; \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/francisboutle.co.uk\/products\/comrades-in-conscience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/francisboutle.co.uk\/products\/comrades-in-conscience\/\">Comrades in Conscience<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/francisboutle.co.uk\/products\/communities-of-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/francisboutle.co.uk\/products\/communities-of-resistance\/\">Communities of Resistance<\/a> &#8211; they are available from the publisher via the <a href=\"https:\/\/francisboutle.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/francisboutle.co.uk\/\">Francis Boutle website<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf you use the discount code &#8220;<strong>SOCIALIST20<\/strong>&#8221; when you check out, you will receive a 20% reduction.<\/p>\n<p>For a hundred years the received wisdom has been that Britain\u2019s part in the First World War was universally popular and that those who opposed it were at the margin and of no account \u2013 eccentric and a little odd.<br \/>\nUsing the research on which his book <em>Communities of Resistance<\/em> (Francis Boutle, 2020) is based Cyril Pearce will identify these \u2018eccentrics\u2019 and suggest a different story where communities and groups of neighbouring communities had within them more and more active war resister than the received view might allow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local histories of Britain\u2019s War Resisters 1914-1918 The SHS hosted speaker Cyril Pearce for an online talk at 2pm, Saturday, 24th April. If you wish to buy\u00a0either of Cyril&#8217;s books&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members-publications","category-past-shs-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}