IWM London, People Power: Fighting for Peace
Coming Soon: 23 March – 28 August 2017 Take a journey from the First World War to the present day, exploring how peace movements have influenced perceptions of war and conflict in this major ex...
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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...
Behind the Wire
An edited version of this article by 100 Years of Coconuts appeared in the Cambridge United matchday programme for the game against Yeovil Town on 27 September 2016. This may be one of those storie...
For Class and Country
We are delighted to announce the publication of steering committee member David Swift’s first book, For Class and Country: The Patriotic Left and the First World War with Liverpool University Press. ...
Another survival ….
The Lancashire Archives reports the following in their January Newsletter: ‘For the past two years a couple of our volunteers have been hard at work indexing an important collection of military tribu...
Quaker Strongrooms – War and Social Order
Quaker Strongrooms has picked up on Rachel Muers’s Everyday Lives collaborative project. For a look at the sources which chronicle the origins and development of the Eight Foundations of a True Socia...
Launching the FWWNetwork
Following our highly successful conference in February 2016, the steering committee behind FWWNetwork has been hard at work developing our plans to expand our small group into a national and internat...
Escape from the War; Entertainment and Sport in East Herts during WW1
This Heritage Lottery Funded project explores the musical entertainment, cinema, sport and pubs/drinking culture in East Herts during WW1. Details of their touring exhibition on attached flyer here
A Taste of the Home Front – Arundel Museum
In June 2015 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant to Arundel Museum to explore the story of how the town of Arundel responded to the problems of keeping the town fed during the First World War. ...
Railway war service badges of World War 1
Contributed by Reg Harman One day a very long time ago, as a British Rail management trainee in Scotland, I helped to clear out an old railway office in Glasgow, prior to transfer of all administrati...