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February 2015
Debate: The Media and WW1
Thursday 26th February, 6:15pm - the Studio at The Hive, Worcester, WR1 3PD The centenary of the First World War has resulted in a plethora of related television and radio programmes from Peaky Blinders to the Radio 4 drama Home Front. This panel discussion will bring together both media professionals and academics that have been involved in these productions to discuss and answer questions on ways the contemporary media has responded to WWI. Participants include: * Jessica Dromgoole, Editor of Radio…
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Conference: Organising Women in WW1
2015 is the centenary of the formation of the Women’s Institute Movement in Britain and the publication of the Maternity Letters by the Women’s Co-Operative Guild. To commemorate these events, this Conference aims to bring together anyone who is interested in women who organised themselves and others during WW1. The conference is organised by: The Midlands Region of the Women’s History Network, The University of Worcester and the Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy Engagement…
Find out more »Talk: Gas Warfare
We are delighted to announce the next set of The Western Front Association/University of Wolverhampton Centenary public open lectures. The fourth in the series will take place on Wednesday 25th March 2015: 5.30-7pm, Professor Edward M Spiers (Leeds University) will lecture on Gas Warfare in the First World War. This lecture will be filmed by the WFA as part of their on-going centenary project. Please note the venue will be MC401.
Find out more »April 2015
Discussion: Women and WW1
Join us to hear a series of presentations from academics and community groups working on the subject of women and the First World War. Participants will have the opportunity to share their own work, meet others working on projects, and discuss with staff from the WW1 Engagement Centres how to develop or expand projects or research. Schedule 10am Introduction from Ian Grosvenor, Director of Voices of War & Peace WW1 Engagement Centre 10.20-10.40 Sian Roberts, Library of Birmingham, ‘Birmingham…
Find out more »Discussion: 100 Years of Tear Gas
This panel will bring together academics, activists and experts to discuss the military, policing, legal, commercial and medical aspects of tear gas, both in historic and more contemporary contexts. First used in 1914, tear gas is a legacy of WWI, developed as a chemical weapon for military use, then misleadingly rebranded as a "non-lethal" weapon used to repress social protests around the world. We will also explore how citizens have developed DIY gas mask instructions and home remedies, circulated transnationally…
Find out more »September 2015
Talk: Toc-H Centenary Lecture
Free talk on Monday 7 September (13.10-13.55) Chamberlain Seminar Room, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham Toc-H is an international charity and membership movement that emerged from a soldiers’ club in Poperinge, Belgium during World War I. Dr Linda Parker, Trustee of Toc-H and biographer of its founder, Tubby Clayton, gives this lecture to celebrate the centenary year of the Toc-H movement. Dr Parker’s talk will focus on the history of the Toc-H movement, illustrated with material from the Toc-H…
Find out more »Conference: Nonconformist Responses to the First World War
Only in 1871, with the repeal of the Test Acts, were nonconformists allowed to attend universities in England and Wales and join the medical and legal professions. This ushered in a period, for some groups, of a closer relationship with the State where nonconformists could play their part in civic society as full citizens. The First World War fractured that relationship for those groups with issues surrounding the boundaries of State power, or opposed to war. Quakers, Jehovah’s Witnesses and…
Find out more »Event: Raymond: A Day of Commemoration of the Lodge Family and the First World War
As part of an event entitled ‘A Weekend of Commemoration and Hope for the Future: Stories of the First World War from Edgbaston and Ladywood’, there will be a day dedicated to Raymond Lodge at St George’s Church, Edgbaston on Saturday 19th September 2015. Our focus is on Raymond Lodge, who was killed at the age of 26 on the Somme in September 1915 and his family, including Sir Oliver Lodge, the scientist, academic and psychical investigator. The family lived…
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Event: Staffordshire in the Great War: The Impact of War
One day forum in Stafford focusing on the impact of war on Staffordshire and its people. There will be presentations by the Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Staffordshire Yeomanry Museum, Ingestre Hall field hospital, Civic Voice and the Heritage Lottery Fund as well as the opportunity to see a new exhibition at Shire Hall Gallery. Programme 10am Welcome – Janene Cox, Commissioner for Tourism and the Cultural County, Staffordshire County Council 10.15 Identifying medal ribbons – James Whittaker, Staffordshire Regiment Museum 10.40 Horses (cavalry,…
Find out more »November 2015
Event: Whose War? Whose Memory? Teaching the First World War in International Perspective
For this event, we will be joined by Professor Eckhardt Fuchs (TU Braunschweig), Dr Catriona Pennell (University of Exeter), and Peter Glasgow (Peace Pledge Union) who will each present for twenty minutes. This will be followed by an open discussion with the audience. We ask you to please register online for this event as places are limited. This event is being organised by the Voices of War & Peace WW1 Engagement Centre (funded by the AHRC), the Institute for German Studies,…
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