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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Emily Hobhouse and the First World War, Pt. 2

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hobhouse's work in South Africa continued after the second Anglo-Boer War was over, and her work as a humanitarian and peace activist continued during and after World War I.

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1:39.4

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:51.4

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.

1:56.4

This is part two of our episode on Emily Hobhouse.

2:00.4

And in part one, we talked about her early life, we talked about the basic overview of the second Anglo-Bore War, also called the second war of independence from the board perspective.

2:11.4

We talked about her work investigating concentration camps where wars are being held during the war and her efforts to bring relief and improve those conditions and those camps.

2:25.4

That is the work that she is most known for today, especially outside of South Africa, but her work in South Africa continued after the war was over and her work as a humanitarian and a peace activist continued during and after World War I.

2:41.4

I feel like a person who didn't listen to part one is probably not going to be totally lost, but there's like a lot of stuff in there that we're not really going to go over again.

2:56.4

You will miss some context. For example, Emily Hobhouse's work in South Africa during the second war war led to her being deeply reviled by many British authorities there and by people back in Britain.

3:08.4

Although there were some people who saw the conditions that she had exposed as a moral failure of the British Empire, which urgently needed to be corrected, others branded her as a traitor.

3:19.4

Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener who replaced Lord Frederick Roberts as commander in chief of the British forces during the war called her that bloody woman.

3:28.4

In the spring of 1902, Hobhouse went to France to try to recover from the time she had spent in South Africa and then also that time she had tried to go back and was sent back to Britain immediately her work and that trip had been just physically and psychologically grueling.

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