One Week to Go!
Just one week to go before the deadline to submit your abstracts for our conference at IWM North, supported by the AHRC First World War Engagement Centres. Professor Jay Winter and Professor Maggie A...
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Stories of the Scouts in First World War
Contributed by Joe Engledew (Year 10 pupil at Richard Hale School, Hertford) Joe joined the Everyday Lives in War Centre as part of his work experience with the history department of the University o...
One month to go! Deadline for submissions, 17 July 2015
Just one month to go before the deadline for abstracts to be submitted for the conference. Remember, we are keen to hear from as wide a range of speakers as possible, combining the latest in academic...
The War That Wasn’t There…
Ever wondered what happens to the odds and ends lying around even in an electronic age – lists of things to do, receipts or notes – and what someone in the future might make of them? This is a story ...
Royal Historical Society Postgraduate Awards
Thanks to the generosity of the Royal Historical Society, we are now able to confirm that ALL Postgraduate Researchers accepted to speak at the conference will receive a FULL conference fee waiver. T...
Children of the Great War. A film by Age Exchange followed by a discus...
Monday 15th June 2015 6-8p.m. University of Essex, Ivor Crewe Seminar Room, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ Free admission. Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available For more details or...
The First World War in Biscuits
The Minories Galleries, 74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE Exhibition open Saturday 16 May to Wednesday 15 July 2015 Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm Admission is free. www.theminories.org.uk tel: 012...
Gendering Remembrance: The Home Front in Contemporary Media and Commun...
Here is the abstract for Professor Maggie Andrews’ keynote address, which will close the conference on 27 February 2016: First World War Remembrance was perhaps once, for many, associated with war me...
Remembering the Great War: A Trans-National Approach
Here is the abstract for Professor Jay Winter’s keynote address, which will open the conference on 27 February 2016: We live in a world where historians born in one country have been able to migrate ...
Children and the family legacies of war
Contributed by Professor Mike Roper Although children growing up in Britain in the 1920s and 30s had no personal experience of the First World War, they were surrounded by its legacies in play, at sc...