Thomas Mawson, An Imperial Obligation: Industrial Villages for Partially Disabled Soldiers, (London: Grant Richards Limited, 1917).
Ibid., 5.
For overviews of these institutions, see: Deborah Cohen, The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914–1939, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 2; Julie Anderson, War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain: “The Soul of a Nation” (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).
Annette Becker, “The Great War: World War, Total War,” International Review of the Red Cross 97, no. 900 (2015): 1029–1045, 1032.
Martin Purdy’s doctoral thesis on Westfield has nurtured this paper through his discussions of archival sources. See Martin Purdy, “Westfield War Memorial Village: Disability, Paternalism and Philanthropy, 1915–2015” (PhD diss., University of Lancaster, 2017), 14.
Alfred Hopkinson, Rebuilding Britain: A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War (London: Cassell, 1918), 145.
A book review of the American Architect and Architecture found “Mr. Mawson’s dream well worth our serious conservation ‘over here,’” while an editorial in Landscape Architecture, the magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects, considered it “fortunate that Mr. Mawson’s plans will be given an opportunity to prove their practicability.” See: T. K., “Industrial Villages for Disabled Soldiers,” Landscape Architecture 9, no. 1 (1918): 32–34. Mawson’s project also appears in Theodora Kimball, “Our British Allies and Reconstruction,” Landscape Architecture 8, no. 4 (1918): 169–174. An Imperial Obligation further made its way into a range of American libraries and organizations, such as the National Housing Association, the Department of Labor, and the U.S. Army War College. It continued to be filed in bibliographies under section titles, such as “Refitting Men into Normal Family and Community Life.” See, for example, Strayer Paul Moore and Committee, Outline Studies on the Problems of the Reconstruction Period (New York: Association Press, 1918), 16.
Interallied Conference on the Aftercare of Disabled Men London, John Galsworthy, The Inter-allied conference on the Aftercare of Disabled Men. Second Annual Meeting held in London, May 20 to 25, 1918. Reports Presented to the Conference (London: H.M. Stationery Off., 1918), 83.
T. K., “Industrial Villages for Disabled Soldiers.”
Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 318.
Ibid., 34.
Mawson, An Imperial Obligation, 43.
Lancaster Corporation, Minutes of the Members of the Council in Committee, February 12, 1919, 181, as quoted in Purdy, “Westfield War Memorial Village,” 137.
Mawson, An Imperial Obligation, 19.
Ibid., 8.
See Purdy, “Westfield War Memorial Village,” 103; Mawson, An Imperial Obligation, 103.
Purdy, “Westfield War Memorial Village,” 105.
See: “The Early Years,” Westfield Memorial Village, 2020, ➝; Purdy, “Westfield War Memorial Village,” 164.
Ibid., 98.
Mawson, An Imperial Obligation, 46.
Ibid., 83.
Ibid., 5.
Ibid., 89, 43.
Anson Rabinbach, The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity (New York: Basic Books, 1990), 2.
Mawson, An Imperial Obligation, 89.
Ibid., xxi, 49.
Thomas Mawson, The Art & Craft of Garden Making, (New York: Charles Scribner’s & Sons, 1926), 29.
Mawson, An Imperial Obligation, 38.
Ibid., 46.
Ibid., 36.
Ibid., 102.
Ibid., 8.
Ministry of Pensions, The Disabled Soldier’s Handbook (Marlborough: Adam Matthew, 1918), 3.
Ibid., 37.
Mawson, An Imperial Obligation, 6.
Mawson cites the promoters of the Garden City and Garden Suburb schemes once. See Mawson, An Imperial Obligation, 25, 47, 49.
Ibid., 46.
Ibid., 11.
Purdy, “Westfield War Memorial Village,” 117.
The National Conference on Housing after the War, Report of the Organizing Committee (Manchester: Kirkham and Pratt, 1918), 78.
Mawson, An Imperial Obligation, 44.
Ibid., 38.
Ibid., 44.
Ibid., 70.
Ibid., 81.
Ibid., 83.
Lennard Davis, The Disability Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 2013), 1.
On the connection between dis- and re-membered bodies, see: Joanne Bourke, Dismembering the Male: Men’s Bodies, Britain and the Great War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 210.