Hugh Cecil

The diary that proves Anthony Seldon wrong about the first world war and the public schools

A review of Anthony Seldon and David Walsh’s ‘Public Schools and the Great War’ and ‘Private Lord Crawford’s Great War Diaries’. Crawford’s entries undermine Seldon and Walsh’s rose-tinted view of public school conscripts

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  • Private Lord Crawford’s Great War Diaries: From Medical Orderly to Cabinet Minister

    Christopher Arnander (ed)

    Pen and Sword, pp. 206

  • Public Schools and the Great War: The Generation Lost

    Anthony Selden and David Walsh

    Pen and Sword, pp. 320

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