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This Fellowship explores how far telecommunications expertise and technologies developed during the First World War facilitated post-war developments such as radio broadcasting, commercial radio communications, wireless telephony and aircraft communications.

In April 2014, Horsforth secured £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to publish materials related to Horsforth and the men and women who enlisted during the First World War.

Room 1 in the Museum has now been transformed into a WWI Choices Gallery, featuring a collection of objects relating to the war which coincides with our educational resource of the same name.

A comprehensive record of those who did not want to fight in the First World War will from today be opened up to the public as part of Imperial War Museums’ permanent digital memorial.

Undergraduate students in German at the University of Leeds are currently working on the translation of a German POW diary from the First World War. The diary, Kriegsgefangen in Skipton (POW in Skipton), was written by German soldiers held prisoner at Raikeswood, near Skipton, and the account it gives of life in the camp is interspersed with poems and illustrations.

As part of the University’s Legacies of War First World War centenary project, the Centre for World Cinemas has partnered with the Hyde Park Picture House for a project called WWI Through the Lens.

Details of next years First World War Conference at Weetwood Hall, Leeds have been announced. Entitled ‘A Widening War: Problems without answers’ it will run from 2nd-7th August 2015 and follows on from the very successful 2014 “First World War in Retrospect Conference” organised by Dr Peter Liddle and Colonel Roberts.

On 25th December 2014 at 12.00pm-1.00pm on BBC World Service, Dr. Ingrid Sharp hears how ordinary people – soldiers, mothers, nurses, and even children – experienced World War One.

Remembrance Day offered artist in residence Juliet MacDonald a chance to reflect on past and present conflicts. Read More…

Alison Fell and community historian David Stowe were invited by Tony Dunlop to participate in a roadshow and exhibition organised by Project Bugle, a Heritage Lottery Funded project in Batley, West Yorkshire. Project Bugle aims to discover some of the stories and backgrounds of the thousand soldiers from Batley and Birstall killed in the First World War.