Introduction: The Great War in cultural memory

Abstract

This is the introduction to the special issue of the Journal of European Studies devoted to the cultural memory of the Great War since the war’s end. It outlines briefly some of the political and cultural legacies for Europe, suggesting a few ways in which culture has measured and recorded, but also served as a way to articulate, the manifold ways in which Europeans continued to experience the war beyond its outbreak. It offers a brief introduction to the five articles that constitute the issue.