International Women’s Day, Alexandra Grantham
Contributed by Dr Vivien Newman According to its own website, International Women’s Day ‘celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women.’ I admit to being skeptica...
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History of Dawlish Violets
Dr Julia Neville is an Honorary Fellow in the History Department at Exeter University, and serves on the Council of the Devon History Society. The Strand Centre in Dawlish have published a leaflet...
Women Strikers in Britain and France during the First World War
In our latest blog, Professor Alison Fell from the University of Leeds highlights the involvement of women in strikes during 1917 and 1918. The new economic and industrial conditions during the war s...
Berta Ruck: A war-time best-seller
Contributed by Andrew Maunder In its notice of her death in 1978 The Times explained of Berta Ruck (1878-1978) that she had been “a novelist of popular stamp, who wrote very largely for and about you...
Back to the Front Project – Handmaidens of Death
As part of the Abbot’s Langley’s ‘Back to the Front’ project the Flatpack Theatre Company will be performing Herbert Tremaine’s Handmaidens of Death, a First World War play which deals with the exper...
‘The First World War: Commemoration and Memory’, Imperial War Museum N...
Philippa Read (University of Leeds) reports on a conference organised by the First World War Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Network (FWW Network) and supported by Everyday Lives at War. Yo...
The impact of WW1 on a local York community – Clements Hall Loca...
A new local project is based at a community centre to the south of the city walls of York. Clements Hall Local History Group was awarded £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for their two year proj...
Gertrude Jennings: Human Comedy Human Conflict
Barry Edwards has been researching the life and work of playwright Gertrude Jennings. She was a successful writer whose plays have been unjustly neglected since the peak of her fame in the first thir...
The National Kitchens movement in Devon
Dr Julia Neville is an Honorary Fellow in the History Department at Exeter University, and serves on the Council of the Devon History Society. In 1917, as food shortages started to make an impact ...
Remembering the First World War – Hat Making in St. Albans
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 front during the First World ...