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Pending Advice > 1 May : A World Aflame - Illuminating new perspectives on the Great War
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Contact the organisers closer to the time to know if this event is going ahead or not. 70 million men served in the First World War. Countless millions more lives were affected, whether through munitions production, medical services or familial ties. This FREE student-run conference will bring together current research on non-military histori…
The Boys of Blackhorse Road by Malcolm Doolin
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More than simply a collection of personal, short life and service histories of the boys who as men served and died during the First World War, The Boys of Blackhorse Road is a social history of the era, which ably straddles this extraordinarily transitional era, say 1880s to 1920s. The story of the school is assiduously told; throughout it remains…
The Great War and the French People by Jean-Jacques Becker
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343pp. Hardback £25 (1986 price) Paperback £8.95 Berg Publishers Ltd. The effect of modern war on civil populations has become a field of considerable interest to historians of late, not least because it was a field that had previously attracted very little attention. Professor Becker's study utilises a mass of published and unpublished mater…
Farnham in the Great War by Maurice Hewins
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Printed and bound by Print2Demand Ltd. 17cm x 24cm 202 pages When I was asked to read and review Maurice Hewin's Farnham in the Great War I jumped at the chance. Having struggled myself to produce a history of the men of Rowledge who fell in the Great War, I knew only too well that the source of material for any work relating to that period was …
Ep.272 - The Political and Social History of Ireland in the First World War - Dr Niamh Gallagher and Prof Richard Grayson
Dr Niamh Gallagher, University Associate Professor in Modern British and Irish History at the Faculty of History, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge and Professor Richard Grayson, Professor of Twentieth Century History, Head of History at Goldsmiths, University of London discuss Niamh’s recent book Ireland and the Great War. …
Norwood Cemetery and the Great War: Reflections of Military and Social History by Peter Hodgkinson and John Clarke
Published by Friends of West Norwood Cemetery, 2022. £15.00 (p&p extra) 400pp Full colour, pb, maps, ISBN: 978 1 910722 16 9 This is an unusual and fascinating book about the First World War. It is an exploration of community and commemoration. However, the story is not told through the activities of the living but instead through the sacr…