Berta Ruck: A war-time best-seller
Contributed by Andrew Maunder In its notice of her death in 1978 The Times explained of Berta Ruck (1878-1978) that she had been “a novelist of popular stamp, who wrote very largely for and about you...
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‘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...
English Words in Wartime – Tracking language on the move in WW1
Zeppelinphobia, Pinkers, Smoke-senders. Can we write a history of war through the words that are used? If so, what might this reveal? In August 1914, Andrew Clark, rector of Great Leighs in Essex and...
The Great War in East Anglian Fiction
Contributed by Jeff Taylor, an independent researcher living in Suffolk with a background in archaeology and museums. For some years he wrote a column on East Anglian Fiction for the Eastern Daily Pr...