Military tribunals – Page 2 – Everyday Lives in War

First World War Military Tribunal Workshop – Video Clips

May 30, 2016

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 ...

Staffordshire Appeals 1916 – 1918, Study Day

May 3, 2016

For the full WW1 Study Day Flyer

The Preacher and the Conscientious Objector

April 18, 2016

Dr Jacqueline Sarsby is a social anthropologist, oral historian and photographer. She was a full-time lecturer at the University of Kent before going free-lance. Among other books, she is the author ...

Middlesex Military Service Appeal Tribunal 1916-18

February 21, 2016

To mark the centenary of the introduction of compulsory conscription, the National Archives would like to remind everybody that the records of the Middlesex Military Service appeal tribunal are onlin...

Remembering the First World War – Hat Making in St. Albans

November 11, 2015

In January 2013 a group of 21 volunteers from the St. Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society began a research project to find out what life was like on the home front during the First World ...

From Volunteer to Conscript

November 4, 2015

Brian Thomson is a local historian with a particular interest in the story of Croxley Green and the wider Rickmansworth area. His most recent publication is Croxley Green in the First World War, whic...

Researching the Military Tribunals in Northamptonshire

November 2, 2015

Dr. Sally Sokoloff is former head of History at the University of Northampton. Northamptonshire is fortunate in that the records of its Appeal Tribunal survive and are available for researchers to ex...

A Database of Conscientious Objectors in the First World War

September 24, 2015

An extensive database of conscientious objectors during the First World War which has been compiled by researcher Cyril Pearce over many years is now available to search, free of charge, for those wi...

Researching the Military Tribunals in Warwickshire

September 24, 2015

Phil Spinks is researching the story of the military tribunals in Warwickshire. In this article he explores the way in which his research began and how it has developed over the past 15 years.

Report on Military Tribunals Workshop held 19th September 2015 at Hatf...

September 24, 2015

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, ...

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