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Visiting and Revisiting the battlefields, 1919-1938
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Throughout the Great War the battlefields and the hinterland behind them held a fascination for people. Trying to understand what the major theatre of operations was actually like remained a preoccupation of huge numbers of British people for fairly obvious reasons: family members and friends were fighting and dying out there and often their own …
The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939
Book review by James Brazier. This is the latest volume in The Royal Historical Society's Studies in History series. The book's author, Dr Mark Connelly, is Reuters Lecturer in Media History at the University of Kent and has given talks to a number of Western Front Association Branches in the south east on Great War British and Canadian war artist…
SPECIAL OFFER: 'Two Sides of the Same Wrong Penny: Gallipoli and the Western Front: A comparison' edited by Michael LoCicero with contributions from Gary Sheffield, Stephen Chambers and others.
Announcing the launch of the Western Front Association / Helion publication: Two Sides of the Same Wrong Penny: Gallipoli and the Western Front, A Comparison The year 1915 saw the BEF severely challenged on the Western Front. Recovering from the loss of the majority of experienced regulars in 1914, a largely new army had to come to terms with t…
‘1918-2018: The End of the War and the Re-Shaping of a Century’ 6-8 September
‘1918-2018: The End of the War and the Re-Shaping of a Century’ This important and unique conference will be taking place between the 6-8 September 2018 at the University of Wolverhampton. Seven keynote addresses from some of the leading academic authorities on the First World War and its aftermath will be at the heart of the conference, alo…
Long Long Trail A–winding: Centenary Perspectives on the Great War Editor Dr Andrew Cromac
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The Society of Army Historical Research, Special Publication No.18, £10.00+p&p postage and packing, 173pp, 38 ills, tables and maps.
Copies are available from the Honorary Editor, Andrew Cormack (editor@sahr.org.uk). Invoices will be sent after posting. Please do not send money with your order. PayPal facility is avai…
116: October 2019 Special Edition
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Ep. 174 – Ypres and its meaning through time – Prof Mark Connelly & Dr Stefan Goebel
Professor Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern British History, University of Kent and Dr Stefan Goebel, Reader and Director of the Centre for the History of War, Media and Society, University of Kent, talk about their recent book on Ypres. This is published by OUP. Your brows…
Steady the Buffs! A Regiment, a Region & the Great War by Mark Connelly
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OUP, 2006, £55 (Price in 2006) 267pp, ills, bibliography, index (ISBN 0 19 9278601) Mark Connelly [This review first appeared in Stand To! No.81 January 2008] The author is the Head of History at the University of Kent and has examined the Buffs (the East Kent Regiment) to tell how the “learning curve” took several battalions from the Somme to t…
Ypres: Holy Ground of the British Empire - Professor Mark Connelly
Mark looks at the special place of Ypres in British commemoration 1914-1939, the feelings of pilgrims, the role of the Ypres League and the rise of an Anglo-Belgian community as ex-service IWGC gardeners married local women and started families.
'Effin' and Blindin' on the Western Front' by Prof Mark Connelly
About the talk: Mark returns to Petts Wood with a lively, amusing and informative study of swearing and blasphemy in the BEF, exploring in all its glory the richness and humour of Tommy's everyday Profanosaurus, 1914-1918. About the speaker: Mark Connelly is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kent. His main research interest…
ONLINE : ‘The First World War and its Global Commemorative Legacies’
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From the University of Kent's Centre for War, Media and Society. A panel discussion around some of the key themes surrounding the global commemoration of the First World War The University of Kent’s Centre for War, Media and Society will be joined by Prof Mark Connelly (University of Kent, UK), Dr Dominiek Dendooven (In Flanders Fields Mus…
A talk by Professor Mark Connelly 'The game of ghosts: visiting the battlefields of the Western Front, 1919-1939'
Mark Connelly is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kent. His main research interests are the memory of war, the image of the armed forces in popular culture and aspects of operational military history. During the centenary he was director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded, ‘Gateways to the First World War’,…
128: October 2022 Special Edition
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'Ypres: The Holy Ground of British Arms' with Mark Connelly
Our last meeting, in June 2023, before the summer break, will see Prof. Mark Connelly talk to us on the subject of: Ypres: The Holy Ground of British Arms. How a Belgian city was turned into an outpost of the British Empire, 1919-1939 By the time of the Armistice, Ypres was already a legend throughout the British Empire. Five battles had been fou…
Spring Conference and AGM 2023 : National Army Museum, London
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Programme for the Day 9.30am Doors open – Teas Coffees 10.15am Welcome by the Chair 10.20am 'The British West Indian Regiment: Race and colour on the Western Front' by Dominiek Dendooven 11.20am 'Absent bodies and broken hearts: the Imperial War Graves Commission and the repatriation debate, 1915-1939” by Prof.Mark Connelly 12.30pm Sa…
'That wide blue vault of sky...nowhere wider than in the Flemish plain' with Prof. Mark Connelly and Dr. Helen Brooks (UniKent):
In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History and Gateways Partnership, University of Kent, in partnership with the Western Front Association, present this new series of open seminars on the history of the First World War. They are free and open to all. Please register at > The wide blue vault of sky ... '
Cork Conference on ‘Aspects of the Great War’
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On 7 October 2023, the Cork Branch of The Western Front Association will be holding a one-day conference on ‘Aspects of the Great War’. As the title suggests, during the conference a panel of six leading academics and historians will examine different military, social and political aspects of the conflict. There will also be a display of artefacts …
Cork Conference on ‘Aspects of the Great War’
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On 7 October 2023, the Cork Branch of The Western Front Association will be holding a one-day conference on ‘Aspects of the Great War’. As the title suggests, during the conference a panel of six leading academics and historians will examine different military, social and political aspects of the conflict. There will also be a display of artefacts …
ONLINE: 'Not so silent nights: the 1914 Christmas truce' by Prof Mark Connelly
Caption: British and German soldiers arm-in-arm and exchanging headgear: a Christmas Truce between opposing trenches [Illustrated London News, Jan 9, 1915] About the talk: The Christmas truce was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front around Christmas 1914. It began five months after hostilities begun. The opposing ar…
Ep.328 LECTURE : Why the Allies won the Great War – Prof Mark Connelly
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We delve into the intricacies of the First World War with Mark Connelly from the University of Kent and explore the question: 'Why did the Allies emerge victorious?' In this thought-provoking lecture, historian Prof. Mark Connelly takes us on a journey through the annals of history, offering insights into the strategic, political, and human fact…