FWW Network Database – Everyday Lives in War

Welcome to the First World War Network. Below you will find the interests and details for our members, who cover a wide range of research specialisms. To find out more about individual members, please visit their profiles, or use the search bar provided to search for members with particular research interests.

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Alexandra Vaughan

Research baker

Profile

alexpvaughan@gmail.com

1. food 2. bread 3. home front 4. Everyday Lives in War

Alexia Moncrieff

Early career researcher

Profile

a.moncrieff@leeds.ac.uk

1. disability 2. medical history 3. venereal disease 4. post-war provisions for veterans 5. gender history

Allen Wales

Postgraduate student, Community researcher

Profile

allenwales@btinternet.co.uk

1. Pioneer battalions 2. Cheshire regiment

Andrea Hetherington

Independent scholar

Profile

1. Social history 2. Politics of Remembrance 3. Difficult heritage 4. Criminal history

Anne Buckley

Early career researcher

Profile

a.buckley@leeds.ac.uk

1. Prisoners of war 2. Prisoner of war camps

Bryn Hammond

Independent scholar, Heritage professional

Profile

1. military history 2. social history 3. material culture 4. armoured warfare 5. tactical innovation

Carole Chapman

Independent scholar, Community researcher

Profile

carolecpc99999@googlemail.com

1.Political history 2.International history 3.Nazi Germany 4.Holocaust 5.Soviet Russia

Charlotte Tomlinson

Postgraduate student

Profile

hy12ct@leeds.ac.uk

1. Propaganda 2. Volunteering 3. Public History 4. Women and War 5. Cultural Memory and the World Wars

Chris Grosvenor

Postgraduate student

Profile

cg304@exeter.ac.uk

1. Cultural History 2. Film Studies 3. Exhibition Studies 4. Reception Studies 5. Military Cinema Exhibition on the British Front Lines (WWI)

Colin Harding

Postgraduate student

Profile

1. Social History 2. Military History 3. Propaganda 4. Women during WWI 5. History of photography

Corinne Painter

Early career researcher

Profile

c.j.painter@leeds.ac.uk

1. Social History 2. Women’s History 3. Twentieth Century Germany 4. German Jewish Community 5. Resistance to War

David Retherford

Postgraduate student

Profile

Retherford03@yahoo.com

1. Intelligence gathering in the US Army 2. British Army and American Army 3. Battalion Leadership 4. Intelligence liaison 5. Lessons learned

Diane Ranyard

Postgraduate student

Profile

dranyard@lincoln.ac.uk

1. Social History 2. Cultural History 3. Marriage & the family 4. Emotions 5. Class & Gender

Dónal Hassett

Early career researcher

Profile

Donal.Hassett@bristol.ac.uk

1. Colonial history 2. Veterans 3. French Empire 4. Commemoration 5. Pensions

Dr Chris Corker

Early career researcher

Profile

chris.corker@york.ac.uk

1. Business history 2. Technology of warfare 3. Role of women's labour in wartime 4. Sheffield steel industry 5. British prisoners of war

Dr Michael Robinson

Early career researcher

Profile

1. Disability 2. Medicine 3. Shell-Shock 4. Veterans 5. Ministry of Pensions

Dr Paul Huddie

Early career researcher

Profile

paulhuddie01@gmail.com

Effie Karageorgos

Early career researcher, Research professional

Profile

ekarageorgos@unimelb.edu.au

1. Military history 2. Military psychiatry 3. Soldiers 4. South African War 5. First World War

Eilís Phillips

Postgraduate student

Profile

eilis.phillips@port.ac.uk

1. Cultural History 2. Social History 3. Folklore 4. Spiritualism 5. Monstrosity

Emily Bartlett

Postgraduate student

Profile

ecb25@kent.ac.uk

1. Cultural History 2. Disability History 3. Material Culture 4. Disabled Ex-Servicemen 5. Charity

Eoin Kinsella

Independent scholar, Research professional

Profile

1. Irish and British history 2. Social history 3. Political history 4. Irish WWI veterans 5. Medical treatment of veterans

Eric Story

Graduate Student

Profile

stor3380@mylaurier.ca

1. Medical History 2. Tuberculosis 3. Veterans 4. Social History 5. Colonial History

Eve Haskins

Postgraduate student

Profile

hyeh@leeds.ac.uk

1. Social history 2. Local history 3. Women’s history 4. Anti-war campaigns 5. Cultural history

Garry Stewart

Community Researcher

Profile

Recognize@live.co.uk

1. African and East Africa War 2. Caribbean 3. Black British 4. Cultural History 5. War Memories in the Caribbean

Hanna Smyth

Postgraduate student

Profile

1. war memorials 2. social history 3. cemeteries 4. British empire 5. remembrance

Harry J. Sanderson

Postgraduate student

Profile

hjsanderson93@gmail.com

1. Military History. 2. British Army. 3. Learning Curve. 4. Infantry training. 5. Military effectiveness.

Howard Fisher

Community Researcher

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Jacqueline Claire Taylor

Postgraduate student, Museum volunteer

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James Taub

Postgraduate student, Early career researcher

Profile

1. military history 2. British Army 3. Scotland 4. social history 5. revisionism

James Wallis

Early career researcher

Profile

j.wallis@exeter.ac.uk

1. Museum interpretation 2. Commemoration 3. Cultural history 4. Historical geography

Jane Clarke

Postgraduate student

Profile

jane.clarke-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

1. women’s history 2. the cultural history of war 3. commemoration of war 4. inter-war politics 5. women in war

Jenny Roberts

Postgraduate student

Profile

J.C.Roberts@brighton.ac.uk

1. Dress History 2. Uniforms 3. Munitionettes 4. Gender 5. First World War cartoons

Joel Morley

Early career researcher

Profile

jmorley@essex.ac.uk

1. Masculinities 2. Cultural Legacy of the Great War 3. Memory 4. Social history 5. Intergenerational transmission

John Alexander

Postgraduate student, Independent scholar

Profile

john.alexander@cantab.net

1. Military history. 2. British air power. 3. British strategic culture. 4. The Arab Revolt.

Jonathan D’Hooghe

Independent scholar, Community researcher

Profile

jonathan@worldwar-ancestry.co.uk

1. Military History 2. Social History 3.War Memorials 4. Service Records 5. Unit histories

Julia Ribeiro S C Thomaz

Postgraduate student

Profile

julia.rsct@parisnanterre.fr

1. Cultural History 2.Combat Experience 3. Poetry 4. Literature 5. Historical sources

Julian Walker

Independent scholar

Profile

Julian.c.walker@ucl.ac.uk

1. First World War 2. Language 3. Popular publications 4. Gender 5. Performance

Kathryn White

Postgraduate student

Profile

kathrynemwhite@gmail.com

1. Religious History 2. Social History 3. Morale 4. Christianity

Kiara Gregory

Postgraduate Student

Profile

1. Military History 2. Social History 3. Economic History 4. History of the family 5. Medical History

Kieran Taylor

Postgraduate student

Profile

k.d.taylor1@stir.ac.uk

1. Belgian Refugees 2. Immigration in Early 20th century 3. Minorities and the War 4.Voluntary responses and the War 5. Local Government and the War

Kieron Moore

Independent scholar

Profile

1. Military history 2. British Army 3. Royal Engineers 4. Western Front 5. Learning, innovation and adaptation.

Kristin O’Donnell

Postgraduate student

Profile

k.o’donnell3@uni.brighton.ac.uk

1. Cultural Memory 2. Social and Cultural History 3. Emotional History 4. Performance 5. Commemoration

Lucie Dutton

Postgraduate student

Profile

1. Film History 2. Naval History 3. Ministry of Information 4.David Lloyd George 5.Cultural History

Marie Allitt

Postgraduate student

Profile

marie.allitt@york.ac.uk

1. Military medicine 2. War literature 3. War memoirs/ Life writing 4. Military-medical spaces 5. Battle/ War landscape

Mark R Cooper

Postgraduate student, Independent scholar

Profile

markrcooper1@live.com

1, WW1 & WW2 Somme 3. Passchendaele 4. Western Front

Mark Butterfield

Postgraduate student

Profile

1. Trauma 2. Wounding 3. Casualty Care 4. Disability 5. Rehabilitation

Matthew Kovac

Postgraduate student, Independent scholar

Profile

matthewkovac2014@u.northwestern.edu

1. Modern European History 2. Military History 3. Veteran Politics 4. British Army 5. Irish Republican Army

Michael Noble

Postgraduate student, Research professional

Profile

1. First World War 2. Organisational History 3. Universities 4. Social History 5. History of UK Research Culture

Michael Reeve

Postgraduate student

Profile

m.j.reeve@2015.hull.ac.uk

1. Cultural history 2. Social history 3. Civilian bombardment 4. Air raids 5. Defence of the Realm and public safety

Michael Woods

Postgraduate student

Profile

michaelwoods@ntlworld.com

1. Military History 2. Festubert 3. 1915 4. British Army 5. Western Front

Michele Peroni

Postgraduate student

Profile

mic.peroni@gmail.com

1. First World War literature 2. Contemporary representations of the First World War 3. Memory studies 4. Historical novels 5. History and fiction

Mike Hally

Postgraduate student

Profile

history@mikehally.com

1. Social history 2. Ex-service organisations

Nick Milne-Walasek

Early career researcher

Profile

nmilnewa@uottawa.ca

1. British Publishing/Reception 2. Propaganda 3. Literary History 4. The War Propaganda Bureau (Wellington House) 5. The ‘War Books Boom’ (c. 1927-33)

Nicola Benge

Community researcher, Heritage professional

Profile

strikealight@rocketmail.com

1. Community and local history 2. WWI 3. Social history 4. Royal Sussex Regiment 5. Sussex

Ole Birk Laursen

Early career researcher

Profile

olaursen@gmail.com

1. Social history 2. Colonial history 3. Anarchist history 4. Russian Revolution 5. Sabotage

Paul Hamilton

Postgraduate student

Profile

westscotlandrce@gmail.com

1. Battlefield 2. Education 3. Remembrance 4. Commemoration 5. Memory

Peter Schofield

Postgraduate student

Profile

p.schofield13@btinternet.com

1. Economic History 2. Social History 3. Total War 4. Home Front 5. Case Studies

Pip Gregory

Early career researcher

Profile

p.m.gregory@kent.ac.uk / pip.gregory@canterbury.ac.uk

1. iconographic symbolism 2. cartoons and humour 3. publication and visual history 4. memory 5. cultural history

Professor Esther Johnson

Research professional, Artist and Filmmaker

Profile

1. Oral History 2. Social History 3. Documentary 4. Women inter-war 5. Children and war

Rebecca Ball

Postgraduate student

Profile

Rebecca.ball@wlv.ac.uk

1. Cultural history 2. Everyday life on the home front 3. Memory and life writing 4. The working class 5. Both world wars

Samraghni Bonnerjee

Postgraduate student

Profile

sbonnerjee1@sheffield.ac.uk

1. Medical Humanities 2. Life Writing 3. Feminism 4. Military Medicine 5. First World War and the Colonies

Sara Prieto

Early career researcher

Profile

sara.prieto@ua.es

1. Literature 2. Eyewitness Accounts 3. American narratives 4. Literary journalism 5. Women

Siobhán Doyle

Postgraduate student

Profile

siobhancdoyle@gmail.com

1. Commemoration 2. 1916 Rising 3. Representations of death 4. Museum studies 5. Visual and material culture

Sofya Anisimova

Postgraduate student

Profile

anisimova.sofya@gmail.com

1. Pals battalions 2. Soldiers’ folklore 3. Eastern front 4. Social history 5. First World War veterans

Stephen Barker

Heritage professional

Profile

history@stephen-barker.com

1. First World War 2.War Beyond the Western Front 3.The Indian Army 4.The Home Front during 1914-18 5.Cultural history

Stephen John Roberts

Postgraduate student, Independent scholar, Community researcher

Profile

northwesthistory58@gmail.com

1. Regional, local and family history. 2. Landscapes in Britain, France and Flanders 3. Military history 4. British and French colonial soldiers 5. War memorials and commemoration

Stephen Manning

Postgraduate student

Profile

stephenthemanning@gmail.com

1. Social history 2. Cultural history 3. Home Front in the UK 4. Total war

Tom Sear

Postgraduate student

Profile

Tom.Sear@student.adfa.edu.au

1. Digital memory 2. Social Media 3. Simulation 4. Military history 5. Commemoration

Tomáš Rusek

Early career researcher

Profile

rusek.tom@gmail.com

1. Military history 2. Czechoslovak legions 3. Legionary traditions and afterlife in post-war Czechoslovakia (war memorials, literature etc.) 4. Veteran organizations