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HISTORY COURSEWORK In 1915 a British newspaper printed a letter from a "Lady Reader" who claimed: "The women of Britain will tolerate no such cry as Peace". Do you think that the young men of Britain would have agreed with the Lady Reader during the Great War, 1914-1918? In August 1914, Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, saw that the conflict would be long and hard fought, and proposed a revolutionary plan for new armies of millions of volunteers, as Britain previously only relied on a small professional force. His own grim face, over the slogan "Your Kind and Country Need You'', appeared in the first poster appeal for recruits. Until conscription was introduced in 1916, young men were subjected to relentless social pressures, both official and unofficial, to join the army. In 1915 a British newspaper printed a letter from a "Lady Reader" who claimed "the women of Britain will tolerate no...
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