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  • Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 2022

    Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 2022

    03 March 2022 by Jessica Meyer | 0 Comments | Categories:

    The International Society for First World War Studies is delighted to announce that the 2022 Dennis Showalter Public Lecture for an Emerging Scholar is now open for nominations. The deadline for nominations are 1 May. We urge members to consider their outstanding emerging colleagues for nominations. Full details on the award and how to nominate can be found at:

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QX98Oi-D1ImJNR20FcyCFEkLief_ZquSQ_6T2TCyj_4/edit

  • Jeffrey Grey and Elizabeth Greenhalgh Awards 2022

    01 March 2022 by Jessica Meyer | 0 Comments | Categories:

    The International Society for First World War Studies is delighted to announce that the 2022 Jeffrey Grey Award for Postgraduate or Early-Career Research Mobility is now open for applications, and that the Elizabeth Greenhalgh Award for Outstanding Emerging Female Scholar in First World War Studies is now open for nominations. Deadlines for all applications and nominations are 1 May. We...

  • Dr Elizabeth Greenhalgh (Liz)

    01 March 2022 by Jessica Meyer | 0 Comments | Categories:

    An Appreciation by Professor Robin Prior

    I was sitting in my office at ADFA in 1992 or 1993 hard at work marking papers or reflecting on whether the military could be used to forcibly expel those members of the School of Economics who were not members of the Union (all of them) when I heard a voice say: ‘You don’t say...

  • Society Statement on Ukraine

    01 March 2022 by Jessica Meyer | 0 Comments | Categories:

    The Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the International Society for First World War Studies condemns Russia’s military assault on Ukraine and President Putin’s use of historical distortions and lies in the attempt to justify this attack on Ukrainian sovereignty. As a community of scholars studying the history of a global conflict which brought the relentless violence of total...

  • Grants and Awards

    13 January 2021 by Franziska Heimburger | 0 Comments | Categories:

    Elizabeth Greenhalgh Award for outstanding emerging female scholars Jeffrey Grey Research Mobility Award Dennis Showalter Lecture for an outstanding emerging scholar

    Grants for events and conferences.

  • Dennis Showalter

    05 March 2020 by Jessica Meyer | 0 Comments | Categories:

    Society members will no doubt by now be aware of the death of Professor Dennis Showalter on 30th December, 2019. Dennis was a pillar of the International Society to the end. A long-standing and active member, he was a member of the Board of Directors for many years, helping to support and guide the Society. The most generous of mentors,...

  • A reply to Elizabeth Greenhalgh: An Appreciation

    17 December 2018 by Jessica Meyer | 0 Comments | Categories:

    by Craig Gibson

    I met Elizabeth at the 2002 SFHS conference in Toronto, where I also met yourself and Bob Young for the first time. I felt privileged to have presented alongside her, as I’m sure our co-panelist Robert Hanks did too.

    We obviously were both interested in Anglo-French relations during the Great War, though approached the topic from what could only...

  • Elizabeth Greenhalgh: An Appreciation

    05 December 2018 by Jessica Meyer | 0 Comments | Categories:

    by Dr Chris Kempshall

    I suspect that I was not alone in feeling both shocked and deeply saddened recently at the news that Elizabeth Greenhalgh had passed away. Similarly I was not alone in immediately thinking of her family and her friends at this time.

    However, as word began to spread over twitter it also became clear how many historians recognised the...

  • A new President for the Society

    A new President for the Society

    08 July 2018 by Jenny Macleod | 0 Comments | Categories:

    Congratulations to Dr Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds, UK) who was announced as the next President of the International Society for First World War Studies on 6 July 2018.

    ...

  • CFP "Care After the First World War"

    CFP

    09 August 2017 by Franziska Heimburger | 0 Comments | Categories:

    Care After the First World War

    9-11 April 2018

    University of Leeds

    The end of the First World War saw the demobilisation and return to civilian life of millions of service personnel around the world. Governments, charities, families and individuals attempted to support, rehabilitate and reintegrate those who had served through financial provision, medical treatment and social care. In the final year of...

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