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A Permanent Memorial to a Controversial Case

July 2, 2018
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...

A Journey into Russia

May 2, 2018
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...

No Petticoats Here, by Louise Jordan

March 6, 2018
Link to video ‘Behind the Songs’ In this blog, Louise Jordan, talks about how she went about uncovering forgotten stories of women in the First World War for her song writing project ‘No Petticoats H...

Nick Mansfield voting rights – Waitrose Weekend

February 24, 2018
When women won the right to vote 100 years ago, they were not alone: millions of working-class men also came in from the democratic cold.  In this interview with Alice Ryan of the Waitrose Weekend ma...

Witnessing War – 24th March 2018

February 19, 2018
In her photographs, Käthe Buchler captured not only German citizens during the First World War, but also illustrated the widespread impact of conflict. The photographs are of interest not only for th...

Willow Connections: Exploring Castle Donington

February 5, 2018
The Trent Valley in the East Midlands was once one of the most important areas for willow growing and basketmaking in the country. The parish of Castle Donington, on the border of Leicestershire, Not...

The Police as Ploughmen

January 28, 2018
Serious recognition was only given to Britain’s food crisis around September 1916, when an increasing number of ships carrying food supplies to Britain were sunk by German submarines.    From 1913 Br...