Consensus and dissent in war time Leeds, 1914-1918: a case study of two Leeds City Council members According to a local Leeds newspaper, by mid-1916 the total number of conscientious objectors (COs, that is men who had applied for exemption to the Military Service Act under the conscience clause) in...
Care After the First World War 9-11 April 2018 University of Leeds For more details see http://menwomenandcare.leeds.ac.uk/events/care-after-the-first-world-war/call-for-papers/ 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...
Dr Rachel Muers, who lectures in theology at the University of Leeds, has recently led a project called ‘Reimagining a True Social Order’, which explored how Quaker faith and social action today continues to be shaped by the aftermath of the First World War. The project draws on historical research...
Second-Lieutenant Eric Western Wilson of the 1st Bn. The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), died in combat on 20 September 1914, the first member of the IEE to die in World War 1. He had become a Student member of the IEE in 1912 and died at the...
To mark the coming centenary of the start of the First World War, Bent Architect have shed light on a largely unknown story of the Huddersfield Conscientious Objectors, a group of passionately Socialist young men and women who opposed the brutalities of the war on political grounds. They were vilified,...
October 2013 Halfway update on Leeds Stories of the Great War See the Leeds Stories of the Great War page for more information on the aims and research proposal of the project. On 31st October we had our 2nd whole group meeting and about 50 people attended which was excellent – see all...
1. Women’s Organisations and Female activists: Aftermaths of War network project. There is a school of thought that suggests that women are innately peace-loving and fundamentally opposed to war because of their role as nurturers and care-givers. We might therefore expect women as a group to resist war and protest...
First Leeds Stories of the Great War group meeting – 13 August 2013 On 13 August participants from across the different groups working on Leeds Stories of the Great War were invited to an event held at Leeds Central Library. The aim of the event...
Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War: A workshop for museum interpreters, archivists and historians Supported by the AHRC-funded project: Innovating in Combat: telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War Centre for History & Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, in partnership with the Museum of History of Science,...
On Friday 11th January, at the invitation of Graham Boxer, the director of the Imperial war Museum North in Salford, members of the Legacies of war team attended a networking day for academics from local universities. Attendees came from a wide variety of institutions including Universities of Manchester, Salford...