Crime on the Home Front
Contributed by Andrew Maunder The War clearly had a disruptive effect on all kinds of aspects of Home Front life. This included the nature and scope of criminal activity. It may have been popular to ...
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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...
A Taste of the Home Front – Arundel Museum
A team of volunteers from Arundel Museum have been researching the story of food in this West Sussex town during the First World War. There will be an opportunity to see what they have discovered at ...
Meeting in No Man’s Land – Interviews with British elders, Black...
‘German and British descendants share heritage from the Great War’ is a collaborative project to record and share family memories of the First World War. Led by London’s reminiscence organisation Age...
Conference Report
Summary & Overview On the 26 & 27 February 2016, IWM North played host to the inaugural event organised by the First World War Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Network (FWW Network)....
First World War cookery – Trench cake and frost bitten potatoes
Dr Paul Cleave is a freelance researcher. His current research at the University of Exeter focuses on the social history of twentieth century tourism in the United Kingdom. He is also interested in t...
Friend or Foe – Voices from World War One (Event)
War plays X=0 (1917), Black ‘Ell (1916) and The Munition Worker (1917) to be revived at the University of Hertfordshire, 26 April 2016 @ 7pm. As part of its interest in reviving forgotten World War ...
Miss Calmady-Hamlyn remembers…
Authored by Julia Neville Discussions at the February meeting of the Devon First World War Food and Farming Group started off with a look at the part women played in farming during the war. One of th...
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...
Researching Actors and Military Service
In this account, Andrew Maunder, who is researching actors and music-hall performers who served in the forces, describes some of the issues which have emerged over the course of his enquiries. He wou...