Discovery Days 2017
These Discovery Days are intended as a series of one-day events, to take place in locations around the country with the aim of connecting the AHRC First World War Engagement Centres with HLF communit...
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First World War Military Tribunal Workshop – Video Clips
In September 2015 the Everyday Lives in War Centre held an event which looked at the role played by the military tribunal following the introduction of conscription in 1916. You can see the unedited ...
Finding Your Voice: A creative writing workshop inspired by Hertfords...
This creative writing workshop led by poet, Chris Tutton, takes inspiration from the courage of those who refused conscription during the Great War. By looking at original documents in the archive yo...
‘The First World War: Commemoration and Memory’, Imperial War Museum N...
Philippa Read (University of Leeds) reports on a conference organised by the First World War Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Network (FWW Network) and supported by Everyday Lives at War. Yo...
Researching the War In Essex and Suffolk, 6-9pm, 28th January, Essex ...
The eastern outpost of the Everyday Lives at War Centre held a highly entertaining and very informative evening of speakers last Thursday. We were fortunate in our programme which brought together a ...
A community collaboration. Wheathampstead’s War.
Across the country, local researchers are collecting stories about their communities during the First World War. In this article, Terry Pankhurst tells how the research that he and his wife, Margaret...
Report on Military Tribunals Workshop held 19th September 2015 at Hatf...
About 35 people spent a sunny Saturday thinking about the introduction of conscription in 1916 and the work of the military service tribunals. Participants came from Staffordshire, London and Essex, ...
Postcards from the Centre – Did you know?
Did you know that during the First World War the Boy Scouts were called upon to support the war effort by tackling a wide range of tasks, including whitewashing kerbstones, guarding bridges and helpi...
Postcards from the Centre – Did you know?
Did you know that during the First World War women workers at E. Day & Co.’s straw hat factory in St Albans produced 750,000 tropical army helmets? Contributed by members of the St Albans Home Fr...
The Everyday Lives centre at Bletchley Park
The Everyday Lives Roadshow travelled to Bletchley Park as part of the Milton Keynes Heritage Open Days Programme on 11 September. Centre members Jim Beach (military intelligence) and Owen Davies (su...