Harwich Haven – Surrender & Sanctuary
Harwich Haven – Surrender & Sanctuary is a two-year project of volunteer research and heritage interpretation around the Harwich Haven ports of North East Essex and East Suffolk (notably Ha...
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‘But It Still Goes On’ – by Robert Graves
The world premiere July 10th – August 4th “This generation’s no good, no good at all. They don’t possess any deep emotions. They don’t know what passion is.” In a production commissioned by the...
Children and Youth on the Move
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Remembering Durham
The Cheesy Waffles Project in Durham works with young people with additional needs aged 11-30 years old. They have been researching a range of stories for their HLF project ‘The Home Front R...
An information “black hole”: World War I in Africa
There are many unknown stories of how there were War and Home Fronts beyond Europe. In this article, our guest author Marika Sherwood brings our attention to the information ‘black hole’ on World Wa...
A Journey into Russia
As the Käthe Buchler exhibition, Beyond the Battlefields, enters its final week, Jennifer Deakin writes about another woman photographer of the period: Florence Farmborough (1887-1978). Jennifer is c...
Food in Wartime 1914-1920
On behalf of Professor Jonathan Morris (Historian of Coffee and Business Heritage at University of Hertfordshire) and the AHRC-funded Everyday Lives in War Centre team, we are delighted to announce t...
National Lottery support for Abbots Langley’s Great War Project to mar...
Today “Back to the Front”, Abbots Langley’s Great War Commemoration Project has received £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its project – “Abbots Langley’s Great War”. The project...
Beyond the Battlefields: Käthe Buchler’s Photographs of Germany in th...
Beyond the Battlefields presents a unique series of images made by photographer Käthe Buchler (1876-1930) in Germany before, during and after World War One, and which are part of the collectio...