Author Archives: ELIW

Two strikes, a hundred years apart

April 19, 2017
Contributed by David Hewitt This summer, councillors from Thornton in Lancashire will go on strike. They are members of Wyre Council and, immediately before a full meeting of their colleagues, they w...

Anonymous Women – The Ladies of the Field

April 12, 2017
Contributed by Julie Moore For this third in a series of occasional blogs on ‘anonymous’ women, I thought I would share with you one of those very exciting moments that can happen when doing research...

Anonymous Women and some thoughts on that title

March 30, 2017
Contributed by Julie Moore As promised, the pieces which appear under the title of ‘Anonymous Women’ will be a ‘warts and all’ account of my research process. Already, just a few days in, it is becom...

First Thoughts on Anonymous Women

March 23, 2017
Contributed by Julie Moore Over the past three years, the ‘Everyday Lives in War’ team have heard many stories of how people coped during the four years of the First World War. From allotments to foo...

Introducing the FWW Network

March 13, 2017
  This post, written by FWW Network founder member Dr Oli Wilkinson, originally appeared on the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities website. You can take a look at it by clicking th...

FWWNetwork launches next weekend

March 11, 2017
The wait is almost over. On Saturday 18 March, the First World War Network will officially launch at the What Tommy Did Next… conference at the University of Edinburgh. If you’re a postgraduate or an...

An Introduction to the Shell Basket

March 10, 2017
by Mary Crabb   My interest in shell baskets began with an Internet search of the Museum of English Rural Life’s (MERL) online collection. Having visited MERL some years before to view their ama...

An Act of Remembrance?

March 9, 2017
Contributed by Janine Marriott. When I first began working at Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust I felt that an arranging an Act of Remembrance for those who died during the two World Wars was fitting and app...