Significant Figures: remembrance through making
Mary Crabb, who was part of the First World War Basketry Then and Now project, is exhibiting in Chichester this autumn. For a glimpse of her work and remarkable vision, do watch Mary’s films on...
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Lois Bibbings talks to BBC World Service about WW1 Conscientious Objec...
On 3 August, Professor Lois Bibbings spoke to the BBC World Service’s History Hour as part of a feature on Conscientious Objection. The feature also includes archived interviews with obj...
Aspects of Representation of the People Act 1918
In Beyond the Trenches latest Blog post, Dr Nick Mansfield looks at the profound and far reaching aspects of the Representation of the People Act, 1918, outside that of women’s right to vote. This bl...
Sue Smith shares with us her MA dissertation on ‘Conscientious O...
The ‘Local Bigwigs’ and the ‘Cold-Footed Brigade’: Conscientious Objectors and the Oxfordshire Military Service Tribunals in 1916 This dissertation examines the conflict in 1916 caused by conscientio...
Shell Shock Stories & Beyond
Are you a Community Researcher Engaging with Trauma Narratives as part of your First World War Centenary Project? Professor Nigel Hunt and Dr Larissa Allwork at the University of Nottingham have be...
2019 WW1 Engagement Centres Festival – ‘Legacies of the First World Wa...
This post has been moved and updated. You can find it here: https://everydaylivesinwar.herts.ac.uk/2019/01/legacies-of-the-first-world-war-festivals-2019/
Reappraising the Representation of the People Act, 1918
Day Conference on Friday 14th September, 2018, Livesey Building, Room 013, UCLan, Preston, PR1 2HE 2018 marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act (RPA). Passed in the last year of t...
‘I remain your Loving Wife Lizzie’ – Letters in a Skip
The sub-title of this book, Letters in a Skip 1917-1919, sums things up neatly. Here is one of those accidental survivals from the First World War, casting a remarkable light on the experiences of or...
A Permanent Memorial to a Controversial Case
Contributed by David Hewitt Under tall trees, in a quiet garden, a memorial has been unveiled to a controversial case from the Great War. The memorial stands next to the Cenotaph in Thornton Cleveley...
Heritage Lottery Fund 1-on-1 Advice Sessions
Wednesday 18th July, 11.00am – 3pm. Watford Palace Theatre, 20 Clarendon Road Watford, WD17 1JZ If you have any ideas for a heritage project or would like to learn more about our funding pleas...