Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War: Friday 28th June
Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War:
A workshop for museum interpreters, archivists and historians
Centre for History & Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, in partnership with the Museum of History of Science, University of Oxford
Online registration now available at http://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/innovatingincombat/events/workshop-28-june-registration/
Please note: advance registration is essential for this event.
9.00-9.15: Arrivals, Coffee and Tea.
Elizabeth Bruton and Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds
Project overview including development of educational resources; introduction to project partners
Charlotte Connelly, Science Museum
Recent research on the effects of wartime radio training on the later amateur radio movement
Phil Judkins, University of Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence StudiesBefore Dawn: Air Defence and Telecommunications during World War One
John Moyle and Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds
Major Fuller and the Fortunes of War: The development of the Fullerphone during World War One
11.00-1.00: EXHIBITIONS AND PLANNING
General update on the IET archive’s plans for the First World War centenary and some preliminary findings
Plans to rebuild a World War One memorial to those of the telegraph companies that gave their lives during the Great War
Plans for an exhibition about Henry Moseley and soldier-scientists in the First World War
Overview of the Legacies of War project at the University of Leeds
Royal Engineers Museum and Archives’ plan for the World War One centenary
BT archival sources have that are being digitised under BT archive’s Coventry/TNA project launched and available online this summer.
Public engagement experiences and how this might translate to WWI
2.00-3.30: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION, chaired by Richard Noakes, University of Exeter
3.30-4.00: Tea and coffee
4.00-4.30: Closing remarks
Please send all enquiries to Elizabeth Bruton E.m.bruton@leeds.ac.uk