Saturday 3 October 10am – 4pm
One day forum in Stafford focusing on the impact of war on Staffordshire and its people.
News and Events
On This Day, 11 January 1916
On 11, Jan 2016 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Birmingham Mail
Tuesday 11th January 1916
KILLED BY A BURSTING SHELL
A munition worker named Michael Murphy died in the General Hospital, Birmingham, last night from injuries to his face and abdomen caused by the bursting of a shell.
On This Day, 10 January 1916
On 10, Jan 2016 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Evening Despatch
Monday 10th January 1916
SOLDIERS’ CHILDREN
N.C.O.S’ ASSOCIATION PROVIDE A JOYOUS ENTERTAINMENT
Call for papers: Changing the Future Research Landscape? A Connected Communities Conference for Early Career Researchers
On 08, Jan 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Changing the Future Research Landscape? A Connected Communities Conference for Early Career Researchers
University of East Anglia, Norwich, 22-23 March 2016
Free chapter download, The Acceptable Face of Feminism
On 08, Jan 2016 | In Resources | By Nicola Gauld
‘The WI: A legacy of the Great War’, Chapter Two from The Acceptable Face of Feminism by Prof Maggie Andrews, can now be downloaded for free on the Lawrence & Wishart website.
See previous blog for more details.
Call For Papers: ‘Re-Imagining Challenging History’
On 07, Jan 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
We invite contributions to the second Challenging History conference, to be hosted by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, 29-30 June 2016.
On This Day, 6 January 1916
On 06, Jan 2016 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Birmingham Mail
6th January 1916
Read more…
Birmingham City Council WW1 events
On 06, Jan 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Birmingham City Council held two special First World War commemorative events last year.
On This Day, 5 January 1916
On 05, Jan 2016 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
For the next year we will periodically publish extracts of news reports from local newspapers 100 years on. ‘On This Day’ will focus on how the Great War affected the daily lives of Birmingham citizens. All content has been curated by Maeve Scally, History student at the University of Birmingham.
Read more…
A Black Volunteer in Birmingham’s WWI, Small Heath
On 17, Dec 2015 | In Resources | By Nicola Gauld
Back when I was working in Birmingham Central Library on a wide range of heritage projects, a lot of my time was spent researching city collections that hadn’t been used or looked at for many years.
Call for papers: Volunteers & Voters, the First World War & its Legacy
On 14, Dec 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Volunteers & Voters: The First World War and its Legacy
Saturday 12 November 2016
University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ
Organised by The Women’s History Network, Midlands Region
These Dangerous Women
On 11, Dec 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
These Dangerous Women was an HLF funded project about the women who tried to stop World War 1.
Courage without Glory: The British Army on the Western Front 1915
On 10, Dec 2015 | In Resources | By Nicola Gauld
Courage without Glory: The British Army on the Western Front 1915
Edited by Spencer Jones
Published by Helion & Co. (http://www.helion.co.uk/new-and-forthcoming-titles/courage-without-glory-the-british-army-on-the-western-front-1915.html)
Community Research Fund Round Three
On 08, Dec 2015 | In Project Updates | By Nicola Gauld
Invitations for applications are now open for members of the Research Network to bid for funding up to a maximum of £15,000 for projects which involve the co-design and co-production of research with community groups around the legacy of the First World War.
Call for papers: Home, Food & Family in WW1
On 08, Dec 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Home, Food and Family in WWI
Saturday 5 March, 2016
A conference organized by the Women’s History Network, Midlands Region and the Voices of War and Peace WWI Engagement Centre
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings,
Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Midlands B60 4JR
Borders and Beyond in the Middle East since 1914: Legacies, Changes, Continuities
On 01, Dec 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Call for Papers: Borders and Beyond in the Middle East since 1914: Legacies, Changes, Continuities
Venue: York St John University
Date : 17-18 June 2016
(associated social and cultural events on 16th and 19th June)
An Unknown & Untold Story – The Muslim Contribution to the First World War
On 23, Nov 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
The website for “An Unknown & Untold Story – The Muslim Contribution to The First World War”, a new project to raise public awareness during the First World War Centenary of the 400,000 Muslims from undivided India who served in the British Army in The First World War, was launched last week.
New edition of The Acceptable Face of Feminism
On 20, Nov 2015 | In Resources | By Nicola Gauld
The Acceptable Face of Feminism: The Women’s Institute as a Social Movement
Maggie Andrews
New and revised edition
Published by Lawrence & Wishart
Last few places left! Whose War? Whose Memory? Teaching the First World War in International Perspective
On 19, Nov 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Thursday 19 November 5pm – 7.30pm
Muirhead 417, University of Birmingham
On now! Not all Jam and Jerusalem: the WI in the First and Second World Wars
On 19, Nov 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Not all Jam and Jerusalem: the WI in the First and Second World Wars
A series of events marking the centenary of the first English WI meeting in November 1915
At The Hive, Sawmill Walk, The Butts, Worcester, WR1 3PB
The last entry from Dorothy Priest’s Diary
On 11, Nov 2015 | In Priest Diary | By Nicola Gauld
The last entry in Dorothy’s diary dates from November 11th, 1921
To you from failing hand we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,
If you break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies blow
In Flanders Field.
J. McCrae
All Rights Reserved. Priest Diary and images cannot be reproduced without permission of the owner.
Rethinking the Nation
On 05, Nov 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
The University of Huddersfield and the Arts & Humanities Research Council invites you to ‘Rethink the Nation’ at Imperial War Museum North on Wednesday 25 November, registration at 6pm. We hope you’ll join us in exploring national diversity, conflict, power and change.
Read more…
“Lay down your Arms!” Bertha von Suttner and Anti-War Writing in German-Speaking Countries, 1889-1922
On 02, Nov 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
2015 Institute for German Studies Distinguished Lecture
by Professor Ritchie Robertson (University of Oxford)
“Lay down your Arms!” Bertha von Suttner and Anti-War Writing in German-Speaking Countries, 1889-1922
Tuesday 10 November 2015, 5 p.m
Churches Together in England seeking project manager
On 30, Oct 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Churches Together in England are looking for an energetic team-player who has excellent research and people management skills and a good track record of delivering time-specific research projects to lead the research and manage volunteers to deliver our Midlands-based project:
‘They Also Served – The Contributions of African and Caribbean Servicewomen and Servicemen to World War One (WW1)’
World War One in the Vale HOME FRONT REMEMBERED
On 29, Oct 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Pershore community groups celebrate winning £20,000 from Heritage Lottery Fund and launch new First World War Home Front history project with cake and coffee.
The First World War: Nursing programme announced
On 28, Oct 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
This year’s Women’s History Network Midlands Region Conference entitled ‘The First World War: Nursing’ will take place at the University of Worcester (City Campus) on Saturday, 21 November 2015, 10.30am – 4.00pm in CHG 009.
Being Young during WW1 conference programme announced
On 26, Oct 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Saturday 7 November 2015 – Manchester Metropolitan University
Please join us for this international conference to examine the effects of the First World War on children and young people, and its social and psychological legacies.
Oxford DNB updates
On 19, Oct 2015 | In Resources | By Nicola Gauld
The September 2015 update of the Oxford DNB adds biographies of 112 men and women who shaped British history from the 13th to 21st century. The update includes a special focus on the First World War during the year 1915. Among the new biographies is that of John Brodie, creator of the ‘Brodie helmet’ which was approved for production in September 1915.
Black Soldiers in the First World War & The African Frontline 1914-1918
On 15, Oct 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Event organised by Recognize Black Heritage & Culture
29 October 2015 13:00 – 16:30 Library of Birmingham
Cardiff Remembers
On 14, Oct 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Saturday 26th September saw visitors to Cardiff Castle greeted by WW1 Tommies, sample traditional wartime recipes and discover more about military medical techniques at the Poppies, Postcards and Periscopes event. The day was organised by the Cardiff Remembers project in partnership with the Firing Line, Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier.
Last chance to see! Soldiers Stories at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
On 13, Oct 2015 | In Exhibitions | By Nicola Gauld
‘Soldier’s Stories: Birmingham and the Royal Regiment’ brings together personal items, medals and correspondence belonging to men who fought throughout Europe and further afield in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
The exhibition closes on 15 October
The Proactive Pacifism of Evelyn de Morgan, Vernon Lee and Joseph Southall during the First World War
On 12, Oct 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Please join Dr Richenda Roberts on Thursday 15 October at the Moseley Exchange, when she will give a talk titled ‘The Proactive Pacifism of Evelyn de Morgan, Vernon Lee and Joseph Southall during the First World War’.
Deadline 16 October! Call for Papers: Pack Up Your Troubles
On 07, Oct 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Gateways to the First World War, an AHRC-funded centre for public engagement with the centenary of 1914-1918, is pleased to announce a conference Pack Up Your Troubles: Performance Cultures in the First World War to be held at the University of Kent in Canterbury Wednesday 27th – Friday 29th April 2016.
Resistance to War 1914-1924
On 05, Oct 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
A major international conference considering and debating the various forms and expressions of resistance to the First World War within and across national contexts. The event will coincide with the centenary of the introduction of conscription in Britain, but will explore national, international and transnational aspects of resistance to the First World War.
Leeds, Friday 18 to Sunday 20 March 2016
Echoes and Aftermath – Legacies and Memories of the Past from the Twentieth Century Onwards
On 24, Sep 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
This seminar celebrates the launch of two books edited by Birmingham staff: Echoes of Empire. Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies (edited by Kalypso Niccolaïdis, Berny Sèbe and Gabrielle Maas), and Aftermath. Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918 – 1945 – 1989 (edited by Nicholas Martin, Tim Haughton and Pierre Purseigle).
Connected Histories: Muslims in the First World War – Participation, Practice, Social Justice
On 04, Sep 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Connected Histories: Muslims in the First World War – Participation, Practice, Social Justice
Tuesday 15 September, 6pm – 8.30pm, University of Birmingham, School of Education, G38
Call for Volunteers: The Centre of Curious Sonic Investigation
On 04, Sep 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
The Centre of Curious Sonic Investigation is working with Voices of War & Peace WW1 Engagement Centre and Birmingham City University’s Margaret Street School of Art on Absconditi Viscus, a phonic residency by Justin Wiggan.
Talbot House: A Home from Home
On 21, Aug 2015 | In Performance | By Nicola Gauld
Talbot House: A Home from Home
Friday 16 October 7.30pm at mac birmingham
Tickets £10
Nonconformist Responses to World War One programme announced
On 20, Aug 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Nonconformist Responses to World War One Programme and Booking details
The annual conference of the Quaker Studies Research Association (QSRA) and the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies (University of Birmingham)
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham B29 6LJ
15/16 September 2015
Toc-H Centenary Lecture
On 12, Aug 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Free talk on Monday 7 September (13.10-13.55) Chamberlain Seminar Room, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham
