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This article seeks to contribute to existing historiography by studying how the crisis of the First World War prompted the British residents of Florence to define for the first time what it meant to be Anglo-Florentine in a city that was populated by a significant international community. By examining two Anglo-Florentine newspapers, and archival records, it demonstrates how an expatriate community defined itself along sharply nationalistic lines, borrowing from the language of newspapers in Britain, and how its members regarded themselves as being loyal patriots of the British empire, despite living outside its formal and informal spheres of influence. This new identity referenced the expatriate Britons’ attachment to their adopted home, tracing a tradition of Anglo-Italian relations that stretched back to Classical history. It would also have international implications, as Anglo-Florentine patriotism produced the first centre in Italy dedicated to cultural propaganda, the British Institute of Florence, established in 1917, forerunner to later institutes around the world. Though the impact of the First World War on national and cultural identity in Great Britain and her empire has been extensively studied, the effect of the conflict on British expatriates has until now been neglected. This article seeks to address that gap.

TCBH Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2011 ‘Victory Will Be With Us’: British Propaganda and Imperial Duty in Florence during the First World War