Story Room – Page 4 – Everyday Lives in War

Foxhunters in khaki – foxhunting and the county Yeomanry during ...

January 3, 2017

Contributed by Nick Mansfield One hundred years ago, the British government for the first time introduced conscription for compulsory service in the armed forces; a response to the high battlefield c...

The Legacy of War Service; The Experiences of First World War Veterans...

December 23, 2016

By Dr Nick Mansfield & Dr Oliver Wilkinson 2017 will mark the centenary anniversary of the creation of the first veterans’ associations in Britain; the National Association of Discharged S...

Father Christmas at the Tribunal

December 21, 2016

The Kaiser’s assault on Fairyland defeated Contributed by Julie Moore It seems that even the residents of Fairyland were not exempt from the demands of the Military Service Act during the First World...

Joseph, the war, a strike and a maddening memorandum

December 19, 2016

Contributed by David Hewitt Joseph fought in the First World War, even though that certainly wasn’t what he wanted. Oddly, he had at one time volunteered for military service. But, even more oddly, h...

Britain and the Easter Rising: a one-day symposium on the impact of th...

September 30, 2016

Guests and speakers at a recent one-day symposium held at the University of Central Lancashire and supported by the ‘Everyday Lives in War’ First World War Engagement Centre, heard from a...

Grassmoor Class of 1916 – What the School Log-Book Tells Us Abou...

August 10, 2016

This HLF supported project brought together Whitworks Adventures in Theatre (http://watheatre.co) and Year 6 pupils from Grassmoor Primary School in Derbyshire, to recreate something of the lives of ...

J.M. Barrie’s A Well Remembered Voice on tour

July 25, 2016

Contributed by Andrew Maunder Our production of J.M. Barrie’s play about spiritualism, A Well Remembered Voice, is heading out on tour in autumn 2016. A co-production with IO Theatre, it combi...

Berta Ruck: A war-time best-seller

July 9, 2016

Contributed by Andrew Maunder In its notice of her death in 1978 The Times explained of Berta Ruck (1878-1978) that she had been “a novelist of popular stamp, who wrote very largely for and about you...

BATTLING ONWARDS: The Brixham Fishing Fleet 1914-1918

June 3, 2016

Samantha Little is part of the group researching Farming, Fishing and Food Supply in Devon during the First World War, led by Professor Henry French at Exeter University. She is the Writer in Residen...

‘The First World War: Commemoration and Memory’, Imperial War Museum N...

April 26, 2016

Philippa Read (University of Leeds) reports on a conference organised by the First World War Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Network (FWW Network) and supported by Everyday Lives at War. Yo...

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