Story Room – Everyday Lives in War

Making Histories, Sharing Histories Putting University – Community Col...

November 9, 2020

Our final Centre publication is an open-access guide to collaborative working. Co-written with the Voices of War & Peace, First World War Engagement Centre, Making Histories, Sharing Histories sh...

Further Thoughts from Enniskillen: The Poppy

November 25, 2019

Contributed by Dr Ciara Meehan, project Principal Investigator. In my last post about the Enniskillen workshop I recounted the varying views on the act of remembering. In today’s post, I want to spen...

St John Ervine: A playwright at war

April 18, 2019

Contributed by Andrew Maunder As the Finborough Theatre in London stages a new production of St John Ervine’s 1913 powerful suffrage play Jane Clegg, it’s worth thinking more about the play’s Ulster-...

The London Irish: a Complex Relationship with the Poppy

February 12, 2019

We are delighted to introduce our collaborative project on ‘Commemoration in Irish Everyday Lives: Exploring the Legacy of the First World War in Diaspora and Irish Communities’ through this first bl...

Fortune-telling in the First World War: an intriguing behind the scene...

February 7, 2019

Owen Davies, member of the Everyday Lives in War team, talks here about his long-standing interest in the history of fortune-telling and his collaboration with theatre group Cap-a-Pie. Their work tog...

‘Germany in the First World War as seen in the Photographs of Kä...

February 1, 2019

On Saturday, 13 October 2018 Dr Helen Boak, former Head of History at the University of Hertfordshire, gave a talk to the Anglo-German Family History Society in London on ‘Germany in the First World ...

Remembering a war after ‘The War’

February 1, 2019

Jim Beach of the University of Northampton reflects on a visit to the Czech Republic. Speaking neither Czech nor Polish, it was with some trepidation that I accepted an invitation to speak at a works...

Reappraising the Representation of the People Act, 1918 Conference, 14...

October 14, 2018

Contributed by Amy Cross, University of Central Lancashire The passing of the Representation of the People Act in February 1918 was a defining moment in British history. By extending the franchise to...

Sue Smith shares with us her MA dissertation on ‘Conscientious O...

July 18, 2018

The ‘Local Bigwigs’ and the ‘Cold-Footed Brigade’: Conscientious Objectors and the Oxfordshire Military Service Tribunals in 1916 This dissertation examines the conflict in 1916 caused by conscientio...

‘I remain your Loving Wife Lizzie’ – Letters in a Skip

July 9, 2018

The sub-title of this book, Letters in a Skip 1917-1919, sums things up neatly. Here is one of those accidental survivals from the First World War, casting a remarkable light on the experiences of or...

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