Author Archives: ELIW
A Taste of the Home Front – Arundel Museum
This project, exploring how food shortages during WW1 affected food availability in Arundel, West Sussex, is aimed at bringing people face-to-face with some of the lesser known facts on food and food...
Tickets now on general sale
We are pleased to announce that a very limited number of tickets are now available for our conference in February! Tickets are priced at £35 per day for academics; £10 per day for postgraduate studen...
‘Farming, Fishing and Food Supply in Devon during the First World War’...
This project is a research partnership that brings together the University of Exeter and Devon History Society, as supported by the AHRC-funded ‘Everyday Lives in War’ Engagement Centre at the Univer...
Cartoons, trench publications and popular culture
Cartoons and cartoonists played a vital role in Britain and on the front line during the First World War. They boosted morale, served the requirements of propaganda, and contributed to British cultur...
Radcliffe-on-Trent in WW1 website launched
Rosemary Collins, who will be participating in the roundtable on academic and community partnerships at the conference, has notified us that the website linked to her University of the Third Age proj...
Remembering the First World War – Hat Making in St. Albans
In January 2013 a group of 21 volunteers from the St. Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society began a research project to find out what life was like on the home front during the First World ...
From Volunteer to Conscript
Brian Thomson is a local historian with a particular interest in the story of Croxley Green and the wider Rickmansworth area. His most recent publication is Croxley Green in the First World War, whic...