Local History and the First World War: conference reports and news
Experience of World War One: strangers, differences and locality
Report of BALH/University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference 28 February 2014
Introductory comments:
- Reflections on the relationship of locality to national and international events in the First World War, Dr Catriona Pennell, University of Exeter.
Abstracts:
- Responses to the black presence in Britain during the First World War, Richard Smith, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London.
- Whose Remembrance?: a study of available research on communities in Britain, and the colonial experience of the First World War, Roger Smither, Imperial War Museum.
- Localities, nations and Empire; Britain and Ireland in times of crisis, 1912-1922, David Killingray, Goldsmiths, University of London; ICwS.
- Using the National Archives colonial records, Mandy Banton, ICwS.
Family, Community and Remembrance
Society for One-Place Studies inaugural conference, October 2014: BALH lecture (link opens a YouTube video).
Hugo Javier Freitas
Laura Yeoman
