Category Archives: Story Room

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...

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...

WWI and the foundation of NUS

October 1, 2017
This blog was originally produced for the National Union of Students (NUS) website. The NUS are a community partner of this project. The original post can be found here.  WWI and the foundation of NU...

John Galsworthy revisited

July 27, 2017
Contributed by Andrew Maunder As the Finborough Theatre revives John Galsworthy’s comedy Windows as part of its Great War 100 series, it’s worth thinking more about the play’s Nobel Prize-winning aut...