Bushey’s German Connection
Dianne Payne led the HLF-funded project, Bushey during the Great War: a Village Remembers. She recounts here the story of Bushey’s artistic colony, which was closely associated with the Bavarian pain...
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Research in Brief – Children of the Great War: Update from Week ...
Contributed by Michael Roper (Centre Member and Professor of History at University of Essex) We’ve been doing a last ditch effort to publicise the collection day, contacting local history groups, lib...
Research in Brief – Children of the Great War film installation
In a previous post, Michael Roper wrote about the screening of the Children of the Great War installation film. You can now view that film in full below. As Michael explained, The film was shown on a...
Stories of the Scouts in First World War
Contributed by Joe Engledew (Year 10 pupil at Richard Hale School, Hertford) Joe joined the Everyday Lives in War Centre as part of his work experience with the history department of the University o...
Research in Brief – Children of the Great War: Update from Week ...
Contributed by Michael Roper (Centre Member and Professor of History at University of Essex) In his last post, Michael Roper wrote about the Centre’s screening of ‘Children of the Great War’ at...
The War That Wasn’t There…
Ever wondered what happens to the odds and ends lying around even in an electronic age – lists of things to do, receipts or notes – and what someone in the future might make of them? This is a story ...
Research in Brief – The female force of conscientious objection ...
Contributed by Sonja Tiernan. An Irishwoman in England The reaction to men joining the army or refusing the call to volunteer was intrinsically different in Britain and Ireland. While generally based...
Research in Brief – Scouting in the First World War
Contributed by Frank Brittain, County Archivist for Hertfordshire Scouts In 1914, Hertfordshire became the first Scout County in the UK to initiate Home Front work for Scouts. This initiative...
Research in Brief – Organising Women in World War One
On Saturday 21st March, 2015, a conference organised by the Midlands Region of the Women’s History Network, The University of Worcester and the Voices of War and Peace: the Great War an...
Research in Brief – Seventh-day Adventists and the WWI tribunals...
Contributed by Victor Hulbert, Communication director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the UK & Ireland. John Benefield was both a baker and a Conscientious Objector. Working in an essenti...