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A Database of Conscientious Objectors in the First World War
An extensive database of conscientious objectors during the First World War which has been compiled by researcher Cyril Pearce over many years is now available to search, free of charge, for those wi...
Report on Military Tribunals Workshop held 19th September 2015 at Hatf...
About 35 people spent a sunny Saturday thinking about the introduction of conscription in 1916 and the work of the military service tribunals. Participants came from Staffordshire, London and Essex, ...
The Everyday Lives centre at Bletchley Park
The Everyday Lives Roadshow travelled to Bletchley Park as part of the Milton Keynes Heritage Open Days Programme on 11 September. Centre members Jim Beach (military intelligence) and Owen Davies (su...
New Book Just Published: British Theatre and the Great War, 1914-1919
Palgrave Macmillan has just published this new collection of essays edited by Andrew Maunder of the Centre for Everyday Lives in War. Contributors to the book discuss the roles played by the theatre ...
Ground breaking book on comics and the world wars published
AHRC funded researchers, based at the University of Lincoln and led by Professor Jane Chapman, have produced a monograph on the findings of their 4 year investigation into comics and the world wars.
World War 1 Media, Entertainments and Popular Culture conference round...
‘World War 1 Media, Entertainments and Popular Culture’, 2-3 July 2015, University of Chester. Report by Jane Chapman (Centre Member & Professor of Communications, Lincoln University) This...
Dissenting Voices and the Everyday in the First World War
Contribute to a lively exchange of ideas at this three-day event at The National Archives 8-10 September 2016 This three-day conference will examine the Home Front during the First World War. It w...
New National Lottery investment in First World War Centenary
Culture Secretary announces £4m for local communities to explore the impact of the war as the nation marks one year until the centenary of the Battle of the Somme Today, the Secretary of State for ...