A Permanent Memorial to a Controversial Case
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...
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An information “black hole”: World War I in Africa
There are many unknown stories of how there were War and Home Fronts beyond Europe. In this article, our guest author Marika Sherwood brings our attention to the information ‘black...
A Journey into Russia
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
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...
The Police as Ploughmen
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......
David Littlewood, Military Service Tribunals and Boards in the Great W...
In this new book, David Littlewood, takes the story of the First World War Military Tribunal beyond Britain’s borders to their role in New Zealand. On 7 October 1916, Albert...
Children’s working experiences in the First World War
As part of her research into the Home Front in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Sue Mann has been working on the experiences of children. In this piece she comments on the...
WWI and the foundation of NUS
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...
John Galsworthy revisited
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......
Lost Voices: Spiritualism on the Home Front, 1914-1919
The Centre is delighted to have funded Karl Bell’s engagement project, ‘Spiritualist Communities & Wartime Afterlives on the Home Front (community partner: Portsmouth Spiritualist Tem...