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ONLINE: ‘The whole picture is realistic of battle : official war photography and public perceptions of the war' with Mark Connelly

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The presentation with Prof Mark Connelly will be live and online. It will explore the work of the key photographers on the Western Front, the different attitudes of the imperial governments and the effects on the viewing public. Further, it will show that the old cliché that the home front did not understand the actual conditions in the trench...

'Not part of the BEF' with Louise Heren

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Louise will be talking about the British perspective of the First World War through journalists and eye witness accounts of the early days of the Great War. Featured image: Summer has been turned into winter by Ernest Brooks. National Library of Scotland License: CC BY 4.0

ONLINE: Gallipoli Through Journalists’ Eyes – Jim Grundy

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In this talk, we'll consider: What we can learn about the geography of the area and pre-war attitudes towards the Ottoman Turks from contemporary journalism? How Britain's wars were reported before the Great War. Did that change in 1914? The nature of the relationship between politicians, senior naval and military officers and newspaper proprie...