Winning the Children
This article has been researched and written by Meredith Andrea, who is the grandniece of a World War 1 boy soldier Clements Hall Local History Group https://clementshallhistorygroup.wordpress.com i...
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English Words in Wartime – Tracking language on the move in WW1
Zeppelinphobia, Pinkers, Smoke-senders. Can we write a history of war through the words that are used? If so, what might this reveal? In August 1914, Andrew Clark, rector of Great Leighs in Essex and...
Crime on the Home Front
Contributed by Andrew Maunder The War clearly had a disruptive effect on all kinds of aspects of Home Front life. This included the nature and scope of criminal activity. It may have been popular to ...
The impact of WW1 on a local York community – Clements Hall Loca...
A new local project is based at a community centre to the south of the city walls of York. Clements Hall Local History Group was awarded £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for their two year proj...
Gertrude Jennings: Human Comedy Human Conflict
Barry Edwards has been researching the life and work of playwright Gertrude Jennings. She was a successful writer whose plays have been unjustly neglected since the peak of her fame in the first thir...
Researching Actors and Military Service
In this account, Andrew Maunder, who is researching actors and music-hall performers who served in the forces, describes some of the issues which have emerged over the course of his enquiries. He wou...
A Taste of the Home Front – Arundel Museum
This project, exploring how food shortages during WW1 affected food availability in Arundel, West Sussex, is aimed at bringing people face-to-face with some of the lesser known facts on food and food...
Remembering the First World War – Hat Making in St. Albans
In January 2013 a group of 21 volunteers from the St. Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society began a research project to find out what life was like on the home front during the First World ...
From Volunteer to Conscript
Brian Thomson is a local historian with a particular interest in the story of Croxley Green and the wider Rickmansworth area. His most recent publication is Croxley Green in the First World War, whic...
A community collaboration. Wheathampstead’s War.
Across the country, local researchers are collecting stories about their communities during the First World War. In this article, Terry Pankhurst tells how the research that he and his wife, Margaret...