The document summarizes information from various sources about the role of alcohol and hut clubs during World War I. It includes quotes from Archbishop Davidson's diary describing a meeting at Talbot House and confirmation at the hut. It also shares information on the symbolism of the YMCA triangle and a photo of Queen Mary visiting the YMCA hut named after her. Finally, it lists some of the ritual and social functions of alcohol in the war and provides two quotes from literary works describing alcohol and hut spaces.
2. From Archbishop Davidsons diary
Then we went to Talbot House, where in the
garden, there was a large gathering of Church of
England chaplains We had a fairly lively
discussion on the question of the relation of
Army work to the National Mission
Confirmation followed.
From The Church of England Record Society, vol. 18, eds Melanie
Butler and Stephen Taylor (2010).
4. The equal sides of the triangle stand for mans
essential unity, body, mind and spirit, each
being a necessary and eternal part of man, he
being neither one alone
1895
www.ymca.net
5. Queen Mary (Queen Consort) visits the YMCA Hut given her
name on 3rd June, 1917 IWM Q2527
7. Identity affirmation
Care
Ritual function
Celebration and reward
Cure and anaesthetic
Stimulant.
8. I dont go over with a skinful, as
some of them do; but, by God,
when I come back I want it (p. 3).
Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of
Fortune
9. When you came in the space was
desultory, rectangular, warm after the
drip of a winder night, and transfused
with a brown orange dust that was
light. It was shaped like the house a
child draws.
Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades.
10. Sara Haslam
http://www.open.ac.uk/people/sjh673
Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the
Novel and the Great War (2002)
Between St Dennis and St George, Propaganda
and the First World War (2007)
The moaning of the world and the words
that bring me peace: Modernism and the First
World War (2012)
A literary intervention: writing alcohol in British
literature 1915-1930 (2013)
http://theconversation.com/glory-farce-and-
despair-the-many-stories-of-world-war-i-22201