Do Mention The War - will 1914 matter in 2014?

[kenf48]

This survey was reported in the Mail on Sunday (apparently)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384242/The-Baldrick-generation-learned-history-sitcoms-think-Thatcher-Prime-Minister-WWI.html

The original survey is downloadable as a pdf. from here http://www.britishfu...ention-the-war/

The questions and results are at the end of the booklet.

they too have adapted the iconic Kitchener poster and given the recent thread probably best to go back to the source!

British Future is a think tank concerned with issues of integration, identity migration and opportunity their view on the Centenary was expressed in a Guardian article cited in Wikipedia.

British Future is one of a group of organisations hoping to turn 2014 into a deeper moment of reflection not just about the fallen, but also about the nation Britain has become. Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said: "The centenary of the great war should be the next great national moment bringing us together as the jubilee and Olympics did this year." 10/10/2012

Can't argue with that, although it seems unlikely.

Ken

[David Filsell]

Since Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Boer War remain of interest, I think it unlike that The Great War will be of little interest in 101 years.

[John_Hartley]

Will 1914 matter?

Yes, to those people for whom that sort of thing is important. No, for probably the vast majority of the population.