Realignment in the aftermath of war: The League of Red Cross Societies, the Australian Red Cross and its Junior Red Cross in the 1920s

Melanie Oppenheimer

Realignment in the aftermath of war: The League of Red Cross Societies, the Australian Red Cross and its Junior Red Cross in the 1920s

Melanie Oppenheimer

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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Abstract

This chapter examines the League of Red Cross Societies, founded in 1919, and focuses on one national society, the Australian Red Cross, and how it realigned itself as part of the transition from war to peace in the 1920s. It did this, in part, through the emerging global programme of the Junior Red Cross. To allow children to gather together under the auspices of the Red Cross to foster and extend its work beyond national borders and into the international spaces was led by the League of Red Cross Societies. Emerging national Red Cross societies such as the Australian Red Cross found value and guidance from the Movement's new federated body, and played a part in ensuring its survival and success.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Red Cross Movement
Subtitle of host publication	Myths, practices and turning points
Editors	Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer, James Crossland
Place of Publication	Manchester
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Chapter	8
Pages	130-147
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781526133533, 978-1-5261-3353-3
ISBN (Print)	9781526133519, 978-1-5261-3351-9
Publication status	Published - 2020

Publication series

Name	Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
Publisher	Manchester University Press

Keywords

Red Cross Movement
Humanitarianism
Disasterrelief
Charity
Philanthropy

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Oppenheimer, Melanie. / Realignment in the aftermath of war : The League of Red Cross Societies, the Australian Red Cross and its Junior Red Cross in the 1920s. The Red Cross Movement: Myths, practices and turning points. editor / Neville Wylie ; Melanie Oppenheimer ; James Crossland. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020. pp. 130-147 (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches).

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The Red Cross Movement: Myths, practices and turning points. ed. / Neville Wylie; Melanie Oppenheimer; James Crossland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. p. 130-147 (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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Oppenheimer M. Realignment in the aftermath of war: The League of Red Cross Societies, the Australian Red Cross and its Junior Red Cross in the 1920s. In Wylie N, Oppenheimer M, Crossland J, editors, The Red Cross Movement: Myths, practices and turning points. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2020. p. 130-147. (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches).

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