10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMPIRE DAY»
Discover the use of
Empire Day in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Empire Day and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
EMPIRE DAY is a dramatic and heart-warming novel in the tradition of CLOUDSTREET and THE HARP IN THE SOUTH. It confirms Diane Armstrong as one of our most gifted and compelling storytellers.
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Imperialism and Music: Britain, 1876-1953
Empire Day documentaries and concerts had the added purpose of cementing
the imperial war effort. On 24 May 1942, the BBC Home Service broadcast an
Empire Day Concert performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
Sir ...
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Imperialism and Popular Culture
Empire Day command concerts were broadcast in their entirety from the Royal
Albert Hall. In 1938 only half the concert was to have been taken by the National
Service of the BBC, but under pressure from the Master of the King's Musick, ...
If the time when anyone asks " What is Empire Day ? " has not already passed, it
is passing swiftly. Every year Empire Day, May 24th, the birthday of the late
Sovereign, becomes more and more of an imperial institution. This year, mainly
owing ...
William Thomas Stead, 1905
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Organized Patriotism and the Crucible of War: Popular ...
The Victoria League gave Empire Day much less prominence than its other
imperial activities. The League of the Empire was more committed to the rituals of
Empire Day, but after 1918 showed flagging enthusiasm. Like the Victoria
League, ...
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated ...
June 13, 1908 Empire Day and England In a remarkable newspaper which
instructs the Empire I read the following piece of information about Empire Day.1
It said that a certain man had sent a telegram to Mr. Asquith to tell him that the
Liberal ...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Lawrence Clipper, 1987
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Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities, 1880-1939
London.5 Observance of Empire Day was thus consequently delayed until 1905,
when George Reid's administration introduced it primarily as a means of uniting
nonLabour groupings atafederal level. Maurice French argues that Empire Day ...
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Britain's Experience of
Empire in the Twentieth Century
Oral testimony suggests that Empire Day remained a firm fixture in the school
calendar until at least the mid-1940s. After 1947, the movement experienced a
rapid decline in funds and membership and received much less coverage in the ...
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Bonds of
Empire: West Indians and Britishness from Victoria ...
For schoolchildren in the twentieth-century colonial period, the image of Victoria
and her relationship to the empire became a participatory event—most obviously
in the annual celebration of Empire Day. Even before the 1870s, Victoria's ...
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THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (AUTHORISED EDITION) FOURTH SERIES ...
I have no doubt he Empire Day. Earl WINTERTON: (Sussex Horsham) : I beg to
ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, having regard to the almost universal
recognition of Empire Day by the self-governing communities of His Majesty's ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EMPIRE DAY»
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Empire Day is used in the context of the following news items.
Recognition: public holidays and constitutional reform
Empire Day disappeared for obvious reasons. It no longer made any sense for an independent nation. Rarely does a public holiday pass ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
Photos: 2015 Bermuda Day Parade Floats
Empire Day was first celebrated as a public holiday on 24 May 1902 to commemorate the birthday of Queen Victoria and to unite countries of ... «Bernews, May 15»
The real meaning of Labour Day
Before 1961, May 24 was celebrated in Jamaica as Empire Day in honour of the birthday of Queen Victoria and her emancipation of slaves in ... «Jamaica Gleaner, May 15»
Flashback May 22
Empire Day is to be observed with special exercises tomorrow in Brantford schools, and the day's observance will be brought to a close with a ... «Brantford Expositor, May 15»
Empire Day in 1915
The North Battleford Newsof Thursday, May 20, 1915 advertised an all-day excursion by train to Meota Beach to celebrate Empire Day. Adults ... «The Battlefords News-Optimist, May 15»
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
... deemed the “Mother of Confederation,” and, in 1904, the same date was by imperial decree made Empire Day throughout the British Empire. «The Chronicle Journal, May 15»
New book tells story of a master swindler who took Halifax by storm …
On the evening of May 26 — Empire Day, as the holiday was known back then — a fleet of taxis delivered the partygoers to the Fairview Hotel. «National Post, May 15»
Mayday Celebrations in Cumberland on Victoria Day Weekend
Cumberland has been celebrating Victoria Day since 1919. Empire Days is steeped in tradition. With a parade, open market, and local shop ... «Comox Valley Echo, May 15»
Britain's most patriotic generation don't love EVERYTHING about the …
After more than 80 years, Enid Wenban still knows the date of Empire Day, once an annual occasion for patriotic ceremony and celebration for ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
Is Cameron The UKs Last Prime Minister?
Three weeks later this spirit of native exceptionalism had its apotheosis in the form of Empire Day—the same music but this time at school when ... «Daily Beast, May 15»
