Innovating in Combat began August with two evening lectures in Cornwall, delivered by the project’s postdoctoral researcher Elizabeth Bruton. The lectures were held at the Marconi Centre, Poldhu and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum with both attended by about 30 people – a good attendance for sunny evenings in Cornwall! We also...
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...
Innovating in Combat has had a busy month or so with events and activities and plenty more to come! Our first workshop, “Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War: A workshop for museum interpreters, archivists and historians” was held in the Brotherton Room at the University of Leeds on Friday 28 June...
Leeds Stories of the Great War has had a very busy month of July. It started with a visit to the AHRC Connected Communities Summit hosted at the Edinburgh Conference Centre on the Heriot-Watt University campus. For a full account of our contribution to the event click here. The second...
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...
Leeds Stories of the Great War is now up and running and will run until the end of March 2014. This project aims to collaborate with diverse groups from the local community to uncover ways in which the war touched the everyday life of Leeds People. How did the fighting...
Legacies of war would like to invite you to the event ‘Signs and Signals: Exploring Communications in the Great War’; 6-8.30pm 20th June, venue Leeds city museum. Innovating in Combat: telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War’ is a newly-launched one-year collaborative project between University of Leeds and...