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...
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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...
Nick Mansfield voting rights – Waitrose Weekend
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...
St Albans Legacy – Multi Media Art Competition
2018 sees the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice. To mark the occasion, we are running a multi-media art competition aimed at secondary school students in years 7-10, which will culminate in a 3...
Witnessing War – 24th March 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...
The First World War at Sea: Conflict, culture and commemoration: Call ...
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 8-10 November 2018 Call for papers deadline: 1 March 2018 This conference will explore the First World War at sea through wide-ranging themes designed to provide ...
‘This Evil Thing’ a one man play inspired by First World War Conscient...
THIS EVIL THING is Michael Mears’ award-winning one-man show coming to Haringey at 19.00 on 22 February 2018, at St Augustine’s Church, Mattison Road, London N4 1BG As the anniversary of the ending o...
Call for Papers: Voices of the Home Fronts: Reflections and Legacies o...
We are delighted to announce a call for papers for First World War Home Front research which has been conducted over the centenary period, for presentation at a two-day conference taking place on 19 ...