Story Room – Page 8 – Everyday Lives in War

Research in Brief – The female force of conscientious objection ...

April 29, 2015

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

April 8, 2015

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

March 30, 2015

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...

February 26, 2015

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...

Research in Brief – The Great War in the Irish Kitchen: Women’s ...

February 2, 2015

by Fionnuala Walsh, Irish Research Council-funded PhD Student, Trinity College, Dublin. In March 1915 a woman was removed from a recruiting meeting in Ballina, County Mayo, after interrupting to ask ...

Research in Brief – Mail Matters: Post Office Workers and the Fi...

January 18, 2015

by Kathleen McIlvenna, Institute of Historical Research As the twentieth century dawned the Post Office took its place as an integral part of everyday life in Britain. Not only was the ...

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