Author Archives: ELIW

Beyond the War Memorial Project: Study Session Report

July 20, 2016
Contributed by Oliver Wilkinson The first two study sessions, held on 17th June an 8th July, of the ‘Beyond the War Memorial’ project have now been completed. Dr Keith Vernon (the project’s Principal...

Bread and War

July 18, 2016
Contributed by Rachel Duffett As the war ground on, food supplies became increasingly restricted and concerns regarding their management and distribution more pressing. The government hoped to contro...

The Beyond the War Memorial Project Update

July 13, 2016
The Beyond the War Memorial Project is now well underway with study sessions running throughout the summer. Two sessions have already taken place (17th June & 8th July, a report on these will fol...

Mistaken Identity, Changed Identity

July 10, 2016
Dr Jim Beach University of Northampton On the outbreak of war with Germany a strange scene was played out in Birmingham’s suburbs. As the Birmingham Gazette reported it: ‘There had been a demonstrati...

Berta Ruck: A war-time best-seller

July 9, 2016
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...

Premiere screening of Meeting in No Man’s Land

July 6, 2016
Michael Roper, 5th July 2016 The Age Exchange film of Meeting in No Man’s Land will premiere this Friday at the British Film Institute, to coincide with the commemoration of the centenary of the batt...

Back to the Front Project – Handmaidens of Death

June 28, 2016
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...

Voices of the Great War, Lakeside Theatre

June 27, 2016
Contributed by Rachel Duffett – 27th May It was fascinating to watch theatre practitioners and drama students gather together in the Lakeside Theatre last week to embark on the ‘Voices of the G...