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Interview: Professor Ian Grosvenor
On 29, Nov 2017 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
On 6 October 2017, Ian Grosvenor was invited by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History to give a lecture entitled “From Voices of War to Voices of Peace: exploring the legacy of the First World War through participatory research”, organised in the framework of the “Luxembourg and WWI (1914-1919)” project.
Blog: The Challenge of Remembrance
On 07, Nov 2017 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
Recently Symon Hill, Co-ordinator at the Peace Pledge Union (PPU), participated in a couple of early morning live chat programmes on the BBC and ITV. Subsequently he received a torrent of abuse on social media, much of it of a personal nature. What terrible thing had Symon said to spark this level of abuse? Read more…
On This Day, 12 September 1917
On 12, Sep 2017 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
Birmingham Daily Post
Wednesday 12 September 1917
WEDNESDAY FOOTBALL.
A LEAGUE TOURNAMENT IN BIRMINGHAM.
Volunteers needed for WW1 memorials programme
On 02, Aug 2016 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
This month, Civic Voice, the national charity for the civic movement, held a workshop to tell the residents of Birmingham about a £2 million fund that has been made available by the Government for local communities to save their local war memorials.
Report: Business as Usual
On 13, May 2016 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
Report on Business As Usual: Institutional Impact in the First World War, Conference held at University of Glasgow, 18 March 2016
Women’s History Network Community Prize
On 21, Apr 2016 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
Women’s History Network – Community History Prize sponsored by the History Press
British Archaeology Home Front Legacy project
On 29, May 2015 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
The Council for British Archaeology Home Front Legacy project is hosting day schools across the country to invite people to get involved in researching and recording their local Home Front Legacy using the Home Front Legacy App and toolkit. These day schools are funded by Historic England.
Booking is essential
Performance: All Our Heroes
On 14, May 2015 | In Performance, Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
We are pleased to share that Zeroplus Theatre is bringing its brand new show this year – ALL OUR HEROES to Birmingham in partnership with THE DRUM, for schools and young audiences available from June to December 2015 for KS2-KS4
Home Comforts: the YMCA and the Great War
On 07, Feb 2015 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
One of our Co-Investigators, Dr Michael Snape, is currently working with the YMCA to uncover an extraordinary story of philanthropy and humanity. To find out more please see the article ‘Home Comforts: the YMCA and the Great War’, which was recently published on the AHRC’s Beyond the Trenches blog.
New WW1 sessions for schools
On 16, Jan 2015 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery are giving school pupils the opportunity to learn more about the lives of local soldiers during the First World War with a new educational session entitled Soldier Stories: Life at war 1914 – 18.
Call For Papers: ‘Building up the indomitable spirit of the army’: Military Chaplains of WWI
On 30, Nov 2014 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
To help mark the centenary of the Great War, Bath Spa University and Downside Abbey will hold a one-day colloquium to discuss the part that the chaplain played.
Snow Drifts on Remembrance
On 20, Nov 2014 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
Remembrance Sunday should not be dominated by religion
God and The Great War
On 05, Nov 2014 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
Frank Cottrell Boyce explores the impact of the First World War on religious belief and practice on the military front and at home.
God and the Great War will be broadcast on Radio 3 on Remembrance Sunday at 18.45pm.
Poem: ‘Calling all the Heroes’ by Lauren Williams
On 26, Sep 2014 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
Commissioned for the Birmingham World War One commemoration on August 3 2014 Lauren Williams, Birmingham Young Poet Laureate 2013-2014, imagined what life might have been like for young people at the outbreak of the First World War
Poem: ‘A Mother’s thoughts on the eve of war’ by Jo Skelt
On 25, Sep 2014 | In Uncategorized | By Nicola Gauld
On the eve of her son’s departure to fight in World War One, a Birmingham mother, Mary Elizabeth Herrick, looks out of her kitchen window up at the sky checking the weather as if reading or trying to divine what will come, taking a moment to collect her thoughts…
What the Bishop said (or, the truth about the Bishop of London…)
On 30, May 2014 | In Uncategorized | By Voices
Report from Michael Snape:
The looming centenary was bound to prove an opportunity to dredge up some tired and discredited cliches about the First World War. How tedious, therefore, to hear Jeremy Paxman indulge in some traditional bishop-bashing on a recent edition of ‘The Big Questions’ (BBC1, Sunday 18 May 2014).
