Using extensive data ‎- mostly gleaned from the National Archives ‎- this book examines the way in which British widows of servicemen who died in the First World War were represented in society and by themselves‎,‎ exploring the intertwining discourses of social welfare‎,‎ national identity‎,‎ and morality that can be identified in these texts‎.‎ Focusing on two widows‎,‎ the book encourages their individual stories to emerge and gives a voice to an otherwise forgotten group of women whose stories have been lost under the literary tomes of middle‎-class writers such as Vera Brittain and May Wedderburn Cannon‎.‎ The discussion is further informed by a wider reading of 300 other such files‎,‎ which allows wider observations to be made about the nature of the discourses examined‎,‎ and offers the most complete possible picture for such data‎.‎ Offering a streamlined adaptation of the Discourse‎-Historical Approach to critical discourse analysis‎,‎ Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War demonstrates how this model of analysis can‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎