Nationalists, whose Party Conference starts today in aberdeen, are employed coding, which could ease labours path to victory next year. What future for the conservatives if they were to find themselves ousted from power in a years time . The influential onward think tank has published the first of several papers urging the party to reject liz trusss brand of libertarianism that seems to have such a hold on the membership. Ill speak to the membership. Ill speak to the reports co author. Aside from reports co author. Aside from politics and trains , as im politics and trains, as im probably best known for my love of wagner, but do i perhaps overlook a golden generation of engush overlook a golden generation of english composers who led the world in Classical Music at the beginning of the last century . Thats the view of historian and journalist simon heffer , who journalist simon heffer, who will join me to extol the lesser known sir arthur bliss , the known sir arthur bliss, the subject
I wont bore you with the biographies of the panel members. You can find the information for yourself there in the programs. Dr. William rodneer will chair and moderate this discussion. I know hes looking forward to having a good discussion with the audience. At this point, dr. Rodner, its all yours. Thank you very much. Welcome. Im here as sort of we have four odu professors. I guess its really 3 1 2. I am a professor at ttc, Tidewater Community college. Im a specialist in british history and british cultural history. I am i wear a hat at odu. I am an editor of the journal scotia, which is the journal of scottish studies at old dough minimum yan. To put a plug in for that we are planning a future issue on scotland and the First World War, so if anybody has submissions, please see me after the presentation. We hope to make this mostly q a and discussion between us and the audience or members of the audience. Ill start out with a general introduction. The legacies of the First World War
Captain William Presley screws, this is taken at the time of mobilization, was mustering officers for four regiments. He smoked cigars, tolerated profanity, but he was a very rigorous man and was committed to the task before him. Few companies were up to authorized strength when he mobilized them. They were at about 2600 men then. Rifle companies had three officers and 65 men. There was increased emphasis on the at the time of mobilization on physical fitness and on recognizing and controlling venereal disease. Battalion marches were practiced with 80 pounds of equipment. This is when they were on active duty for their first mour foss of basic training. Major general leonard wood, one of the armys most Senior Officers and commander of the department of the east, visited montgomery and inspected these men there. 21 men were courtmartialed and sentenced to hard labor for one or two days for being absent after taps. Discipline was more strictly enforced. Newspapers treated mobilization po
Why does this matter . How does this matter . How does this relate to what we see in headlines today. Its with that in mind and that spirit we decided to construct our final discussion which is a Panel Discussion of scholars from Old Dominion University department of history and theyll reflect on the legacy and impact of the First World War on today. I wont bore you with the biographies of the panel members. You can find the information for yourself there in the programs. Dr. William rodneer will chair and moderate this discussion. I know hes looking forward to having a good discussion with the audience. At this point, dr. Rodner, its all yours. Thank you very much. Welcome. Im here as sort of we have four odu professors. I guess its really 3 1 2. I am a professor at ttc, Tidewater Community college. Im a specialist in british history and british cultural history. I am i wear a hat at odu. I am an editor of the journal scotia, which is the journal of scottish studies at old dough minim
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