Behind the Wire
An edited version of this article by 100 Years of Coconuts appeared in the Cambridge United matchday programme for the game against Yeovil Town on 27 September 2016. This may be one of those storie...
Category Archives: Story Room
A Taste of the Home Front – Arundel Museum
In June 2015 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant to Arundel Museum to explore the story of how the town of Arundel responded to the problems of keeping the town fed during the First World War. ...
Railway war service badges of World War 1
Contributed by Reg Harman One day a very long time ago, as a British Rail management trainee in Scotland, I helped to clear out an old railway office in Glasgow, prior to transfer of all administrati...
Foxhunters in khaki – foxhunting and the county Yeomanry during ...
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...
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
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
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...
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...
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
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...