Ep. 300 – The state of Great War scholarship

Prof. John Bourne, Dr Alex Mayhew and Dr Jonathan Boff discuss the current state of academic research on the First World War.

All three have connections with Birmingham University. Jonathan is a Reader, Alex an Assistant Professor in the Social and Cultural History of the First World War and John is a retired professor. They discuss how the historiography of the Great War has changed since the 1970s, current development and where they think there are still gaps in the literature.