Day Three at Voices of the Home Fronts
Contributed by Ciara Meehan, University of Hertfordshire So, that’s it. After almost eighteen months of planning, Voices of the Home Fronts at The National Archives has come to an end. It’...
Category Archives: Voices of the Home Fronts – ARCHIVED 2016
Day Two at Voices of the Home Fronts
Contributed by Ciara Meehan, University of Hertfordshire Day two of Voices of the Home Fronts at The National Archives has reached its conclusion, and what a day it’s been! We were treated to a...
Day One at Voices of the Home Fronts
Contributed by Ciara Meehan, University of Hertfordshire Sunshine and swans greeted delegates arriving at The National Archives in Kew today for the Voices of the Home Fronts conference, which has be...
Conscientious Objectors and Farmers
Contributed by Julie Moore Recently, whilst reading through the correspondence of Samuel Graveson, clerk to the Hertford and Hitchin Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, it struck me that there...
Macbeth for the masses: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Shakespeare on film...
Contributed by Andrew Maunder “War itself is horrible but the misfortune it brings helps a man to find his soul” – Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 18 April 1915. The British Film Institute’s new DVD of ...
Women Strikers in Britain and France during the First World War
In our latest blog, Professor Alison Fell from the University of Leeds highlights the involvement of women in strikes during 1917 and 1918. The new economic and industrial conditions during the war s...
Bread and War
Contributed by Rachel Duffett As the war ground on, food supplies became increasingly restricted and concerns regarding their management and distribution more pressing. The government hoped to contro...
Mistaken Identity, Changed Identity
Dr Jim Beach University of Northampton On the outbreak of war with Germany a strange scene was played out in Birmingham’s suburbs. As the Birmingham Gazette reported it: ‘There had been a demonstrati...