ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the conflict of 1914 -1918 is evoked in public spheres across Britain to affirm aspects of politics and identity. It also examines how the usage of language in popular, political and media discourse frames the remembrance of the Great War in particular ways. The chapter concludes the war discourse that the Great War still occupies a firm place across communities and societies within Britain. To speak of being in the trenches, exposed in no man's land, suffering from shell shock, going over the top or that it'll all be over by Christmas is to evoke the cultural heritage of the First World War. A criticism levelled at the popular memory of the Great War by modern military historians has been the extent to which the experience of the war is taken as the example of contemporary conflict par excellence.
