Children Of The Great War – Everyday Lives in War

Children’s working experiences in the First World War

October 24, 2017

As part of her research into the Home Front in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Sue Mann has been working on the experiences of children. In this piece she comments on the ways in which children were emplo...

Voices of the Great War: A new play featuring untold stories of the ch...

June 9, 2016

Winning the Children

April 25, 2016

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...

Meeting in No Man’s Land – Planning Meeting, Rosenheim, January ...

January 20, 2016

‘German and British descendants share heritage from the Great War’ is a collaborative project to record and share family memories of the First World War. Led by London’s reminiscence organisati...

Research in Brief – Reflections on Collection Day

July 20, 2015

Children of the Great War collection day Contributed by Michael Roper Our collection day was more successful than we could have hoped, with sixteen volunteers coming forward. Initial numbers had look...

Research in Brief – Children of the Great War: Update from Week ...

July 14, 2015

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...

Recent Talks by Centre Members

July 9, 2015

Members of the Everyday Lives in War centre have been busy sharing their research at various events over the last few months. Michael Roper gave a paper on children of disabled soldiers at the IHR...

Research in Brief – Children of the Great War film installation

July 9, 2015

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...

Research in Brief – Children of the Great War: Update from Week ...

June 27, 2015

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...

Children of the Great War memorial collection day

June 24, 2015

The University of Essex will host a collection day on 18 July, giving people an opportunity to share their family memories of the First World War. Do you have a relative who fought in the Great War, ...

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