Dacorum Heritage Trust FWW Press Release
“The air is electric with the glad tidings of a great joy” – Gazette 9th Nov 1918 Today The Dacorum Heritage Trust (DHT) has received a £10,000 National Lottery grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (...
Author Archives: ELIW
There Will Be Wings Conference
Join The National Archives, the National Army Museum, the RAF Museum, and the National Museum of the Royal Navy in exploring the First World War origins of the RAF, as we mark the centenary of the fo...
David Littlewood, Military Service Tribunals and Boards in the Great W...
In this new book, David Littlewood, takes the story of the First World War Military Tribunal beyond Britain’s borders to their role in New Zealand. On 7 October 1916, Albert Walker, a blanket raiser ...
‘Secret Soldiers’ Project Workshop: a fascinating day throwing new lig...
On Saturday 9 December 2017 a mixed audience of project volunteers, those with a general interest in the First World War, and a miscellany of academics, students, and writers, gathered at the Univers...
Reflections on the Centenary – Online Survey
http://reflections1418.exeter.ac.uk
Conscientious Objection Remembered project launch
Conscientious Objection Remembered with National Lottery grant. Launched on 1 December 2017 outside the Salisbury Hotel, Green Lanes N4 (the spot where anti-war protests were held 100 years ago). Ca...
Conscience and Courage – Conscientious Objectors in WW1
In November 2017, Elinor Kelly’s research on Herefordshire conscientious objectors featured in a two-week exhibition in Ross-on-Wye public library. Julie Moore joined her there for a conversation to ...
Conscientious Objection Remembered
Those of you who met members of the Haringey First World War Peace Forum at a number of Everyday Lives in War events, including the Conscientious Objection workshop in 2016, will be interested to hea...
Karen Hunt, Staffordshire’s War (Amberley Publishing, 2017)
Everyday Life in a Midlands County We are delighted to announce the publication of a new book by one of our ‘Everyday Lives in War’ colleagues, Professor Karen Hunt, which provides a fascinating insi...
Reflections on the Centenary of the First World War
The AHRC-funded ‘Reflections on the Centenary of the First World War: Learning and Legacies for the Future’ project will launch its online public survey on the 11th November. The project team are kee...