By Juliet MacDonald Two months ago, I was appointed as artist in residence to work with a body of WW1 letters, diaries, interviews and artefacts held in the Liddle Collection. Housed at Leeds University Special Collections, this archive contains first-person accounts from both World Wars, but during the current centenaries...
Given that 2014 marks the centenary of World War One, we, a group of second and final year Leeds University students, are researching the global impact of the war on our city. We are particularly interested in the changing perspectives of local soldiers who travelled abroad, including their experiences in...
August was great for Leeds Stories and now a new term is starting on campus we are definitely raring to go. August started with the introduction of a new strand into our project, Morley Stories. Morley have an incredibly proactive community and are already starting to think about their plans...
My project began as an investigation into the language of the First World War. I was interested in the contact between the British and French people on the Western Front, though also between people from very different social and geographical backgrounds who were forced to endure the conditions of the...
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...
Emily Corballis, or Sister Marguerite was a nun who worked as a nurse during the First World War. She was a member of the Order of The Sisters of Charity who were famous for their Cornettes – huge starched white wimples. She wrote down her experiences in a diary. A...
Summer 2013 Update My involvement with the Legacies of War project, thanks to my UGRS scholarship, has already been tremendously rewarding. I have had the opportunity to immerse myself in the university’s renowned research culture as well as attend numerous seminars and training events which have helped to further my academic abilities and...
Summer 2013 Update As an undergraduate research scholar, I have spent the summer researching the impact of front-line warfare upon the private soldier’s religious attitudes. After conducting primary research, much of which was done in the Liddle Collection at Leeds University, I have begun to challenge the traditional historiographical view...