In what appears to be the most unlikely coincidence the Imperial War Museum has chosen (Monday 12th May) to announce the launch of its ‘Lives of the First World War’ digital platform in the same week as the celebration of the International Conscientious Objector Day, the 15th May. The...
Tuesday April 8th 1.00-2.00pm Registration, Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds. 1pm onwards Conference exhibition open The Brotherton Room, Special Collections, The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. 2.00-2.10pm Welcome 2.10-3.10pm Keynote: Christopher Stray (Swansea/London) ‘Classical Scholars at War: Europe and America, 1800-1930’. 3.10-4.10pm Neville...
On 29th January 2014 staff and students attached to Legacies of War took part in a ‘roadshow’ style event hosted by Morley’s Centenary Committee. As part of Leeds Stories of the Great War the University has built a partnership with Morley Town events manager, the local councillors and committee....
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...
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...
This entry is based on a conversation with Tony Hall on 29 Ocober 2013. One of the First World War events that continue to generate visual, theatrical and musical responses is the spontaneous and ‘bottom up’ ceasefire in the British and German trenches of Flanders in December 1914. One such...
Over the past summer my research, funded by a PhD Studentship in First World War Studies, has centred upon the ‘transportation mission’ sent to the British General Headquarters in the summer of 1916 under the leadership of Sir Eric Geddes, former Deputy General Manager of the North Eastern Railway Company....
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...
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...