World War I and Historical Memory: according to Pages of the British Magazine "The History Today"
In the beginning of the XXI century, new trends in the representations of the Great War emerged in popular magazines that constructed largely public history. The illustrated magazine "The History Today" appeared in London in 1951. The First World War is a special story that the authors of "The History Today" did not leave for all six decades of publication. The Great War was also placed in the center of the important cross-cutting theme of the magazine: historical memory. The forthcoming of 2014 year and the centenary of the Great War dramatically increased the interest of the authors to this issue. The publications of the magazine "The History Today" on the First World War display patterns of high quality intellectual narrative of modern public history. Creating new representations of the turning epoch in forms intended for the general reader, the texts issued in the magazine, maintain a high level of discussion of replacement of the clusters of Victorian and Edwardian identities. The reader is urged to reflect on the fact that the World War I was not only the Great War of generals and diplomats, but the war of ordinary soldiers who lost their ammunition, and dragged all the hardships and suffered from penalties, also the war of women, and the war of scientists, the war of people entered the XX century along with the war cannonade.