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The Everyday Lives centre at Bletchley Park

September 23, 2015

The Everyday Lives Roadshow travelled to Bletchley Park as part of the Milton Keynes Heritage Open Days Programme on 11 September. Centre members Jim Beach (military intelligence) and Owen Davies (su...

New Book Just Published: British Theatre and the Great War, 1914-1919

September 21, 2015

Palgrave Macmillan has just published this new collection of essays edited by Andrew Maunder of the Centre for Everyday Lives in War. Contributors to the book discuss the roles played by the theatre ...

Centre Roadshow

September 2, 2015

Friday 11 September 2015, 2-4pm Discover more about any photos, artefacts or memorabilia that you have from the First World War or the years immediately following. This is an opportunit...

Research in Brief – Cartoons, Trench Publications & Popular...

August 25, 2015

The University of Lincoln is one of the universities collaborating with the Everyday Lives in War centre, which is based at the University of Hertfordshire. Researchers at the University have a part...

Ground breaking book on comics and the world wars published

August 6, 2015

AHRC funded researchers, based at the University of Lincoln and led by Professor Jane Chapman, have produced a monograph on the findings of their 4 year investigation into comics and the world wars.

World War 1 Media, Entertainments and Popular Culture conference round...

August 5, 2015

‘World War 1 Media, Entertainments and Popular Culture’, 2-3 July 2015, University of Chester. Report by Jane Chapman (Centre Member & Professor of Communications, Lincoln University) This...

Research in Brief – Reflections on Collection Day

July 20, 2015

Children of the Great War collection day Contributed by Michael Roper Our collection day was more successful than we could have hoped, with sixteen volunteers coming forward. Initial numbers had look...

Bushey’s German Connection

July 20, 2015

Dianne Payne led the HLF-funded project, Bushey during the Great War: a Village Remembers. She recounts here the story of Bushey’s artistic colony, which was closely associated with the Bavarian pain...

New National Lottery investment in First World War Centenary

July 20, 2015

Culture Secretary announces £4m for local communities to explore the impact of the war as the nation marks one year until the centenary of the Battle of the Somme Today, the Secretary of State for ...

Conscientious Objection and Resistance to the First World War

July 20, 2015

Conscientious Objection and Resistance to the First World War 11.00-17.00 Saturday March 19th 2016. Leeds City Museum, Leeds, UK. As a group interested in aspects of resistance to the First World War...

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