In September 2015 the Everyday Lives in War Centre held an event which looked at the role played by the military tribunal following the introduction of conscription in 1916. You...
Dr Jacqueline Sarsby is a social anthropologist, oral historian and photographer. She was a full-time lecturer at the University of Kent before going free-lance. Among other books, she is the...
To mark the centenary of the introduction of compulsory conscription, the National Archives would like to remind everybody that the records of the Middlesex Military Service appeal tribunal are onlin...
In January 2013 a group of 21 volunteers from the St. Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society began a research project to find out what life was like on the home...
Brian Thomson is a local historian with a particular interest in the story of Croxley Green and the wider Rickmansworth area. His most recent publication is Croxley Green in the First...
Dr. Sally Sokoloff is former head of History at the University of Northampton. Northamptonshire is fortunate in that the records of its Appeal Tribunal survive and are available for researchers...
An extensive database of conscientious objectors during the First World War which has been compiled by researcher Cyril Pearce over many years is now available to search, free of charge,...
Phil Spinks is researching the story of the military tribunals in Warwickshire. In this article he explores the way in which his research began and how it has developed over...
About 35 people spent a sunny Saturday thinking about the introduction of conscription in 1916 and the work of the military service tribunals. Participants came from Staffordshire, London and Essex,....