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Call for Papers
‘Other Combatants, Other Fronts: Competing Histories of the First World War’
The 5th Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies
The Imperial War Museum
London, UK
10th to 12th September 2009
We would like to call your attention to the Fifth Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies, which will take place...
The Blitz of 1918
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Baldwin’s pessimism was based on a crucial – but often overlooked – episode in the First World War that was to influence decisively the course of the Second …
Art that brings life to the Leas
Kluge Fellow, Geert Buelens, presents Remember Belgium – Poetry as Propaganda during the First World War, 17 July at 12:00 in Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress. This talk will address the use of poetry as propaganda, using First World War poems about Belgium by poets …
Contact: lckluge@loc.gov
URL: www.loc.gov/loc/kluge//news/news2008.html#buelens
Congratulations to our friend and Society stalwart, Mike Neiberg, recognized as a Top Young Historian by the History News Network. Read the full story here:
Fromelles dig finds WWI grave site
ABC Online – Australia
An excavation in north-eastern France has uncovered a mass grave where up to 170 Australian soldiers were buried in World War I. On the night of July 19, …
THE IRISH AND WAR
TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN
14-15 NOVEMBER 2008
THE IRISH AND WAR
TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN
14-15 NOVEMBER 2008
Storytellers and writers in all genres have represented a variety of Irish responses to the military and conflict at home and abroad; soldiers have used both letters...
Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914–1918
by Alexander Watson, University of Cambridge
Published by Cambridge University Press
Description
An innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart...
Details of the summer term Apéro 14-18 Seminars, organised by society members Alisa Miller and James Kitchen are now online and can be found here.
One day interdisciplinary symposium at Glasgow University. For more details click here
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The Living Unknown Soldier
12 Feb – 15 March 2008
Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola Street, London E8 2DJ
Based on Jean-Yves Le Naour’s Le Soldat Inconnu Vivant
A website fit for heroes: 14m first world war medals recorded online
Scans of record cards reveal exploits of 5.5m soldiers – and some famous
names
On June 8 1917 the London Gazette carried a report about Captain Albert
Ball, a fighter pilot who had been awarded the Victoria Cross “for most
conspicuous and consistent...
Daily Telegraph: Online tribute to Winston’s Little Army
By Graham Tibbetts
Last Updated: 1:54am GMT 04/02/2008
The stirring exploits of a legendary fighting force nicknamed “Winston’s Little Army” are published online today, including the stories of the youngest officer to die in the First World War and one of its...
2 two-year Post-doctoral Fellowships from 1 Sept 2008 – 30 Aug 2010 – for more information click here
Details of the spring term Apéro 14-18 Seminars, organised by society members Alisa Miller and James Kitchen are now online and can be found here.
Three sessions for Summer 2008 are also in the pipeline.
Call for papers by society member, Professor Xu Guoqi. Conference to be held in September 2008 in China. Closing date for proposals: 1 March 2008.