Exploring the chasm which existed between the crusading rhetoric of clergymen and the ways in which soldiers in the Manchester Regiment rationalised their involvement in the First World War. This podcast was shortlisted for the TORCH and Acade

A Wordly War: Battle Experiences through the Eyes of African Cultures

Nov 10th, 2016 16m 12s

Examining the First World War through the lives of African soldiers and labourers. This podcast examines the First World War through the lives of African soldiers and labourers. Based on historical fact, it discusses fictional poetry and lette

Remembering before the End: Death and the Great War'

Nov 10th, 2016 11m 37s

Examining the many inventive and moving ways in which people began to mourn and commemorate their loved ones while WW1 was still ongoing and before official acts of public memory were established. The winning entry of the TORCH and Academic IT

Shot at Dawn

Jul 18th, 2013 6m 22s

How a contemporary photographer is addressing one of the conflict's most sensitive topics. To commemorate the centennial of the First World War, the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art has commissioned the young British photographer Chloe Dew

Les Permissionnaires

Feb 20th, 2013 12m 23s

A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War (in French). Dr Emmanuelle Cronier, Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, examines this key war-time experience and the vital role it played in social

Les Permissionnaires (Transcript)

Feb 20th, 2013

Soldiers on Leave (Transcript)

Feb 20th, 2013

A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War. Dr Emmanuelle Cronier, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, examines the experiences of service leave during the First World War and the vital rol

Soldiers on Leave

Feb 20th, 2013 13m 51s

The Sandwich that Sabotaged Civilisation

Jan 10th, 2013 25m 33s

Myths and Mistakes. How a well known photograph and an infamous lunch break have shaped our memory of the Sarajevo assassination. Dr Paul Miller is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Associate Professor of History at

Popular fiction in World War One

Dec 10th, 2012 15m 49s

An argument for a more nuanced assessment of the popular literature consumed by the wider public during the First World War. Dr Jane Potter, Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University, looks beyond the War Poets at the important

Wartime Art and Grief

Dec 10th, 2012 14m 7s

German women and the aesthetics of loss portrayed through art during the First World War. Presented by Dr Claudia Siebrecht, Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Sussex.

Morality in Wartime Britain

Dec 10th, 2012 19m 28s

Dr Edward Madigan from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission considers the issue of morality and the role of the British clergy during the First World War.

Conflict Culture

Oct 29th, 2012 13m 15s

How much do we really know about the experience of the average individual soldier? Matthew Leonard, University of Bristol, discusses the unique conflict culture that developed among soldiers fighting on the front lines during the First World Wa

The Better Part of Valour

Oct 29th, 2012 20m 18s

Combatant Courage on the Western Front. No human characteristic has a greater impact on the outcome of military endeavour than courage. Dr Edward Madigan from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, explores how frontline soldiers in the First

Surplus Women

Oct 29th, 2012 15m 16s

The First World War and its impact on emigration, work and marriage. Dr Rosemary Wall, University of Hull, explores how the deaths of 700 000 British men affected the lives of the country's women following the First World War. With over 1/2 mil

The Indian Sepoy in the First World War

Oct 29th, 2012 19m 3s

The role of India and the Indian Sepoy in the First World War. Dr Santanu Das, reader at Kings College London, considers the global and colonial dimensions of the first world war, namely India's involvement in the conflict and asks how the war

Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours?

Oct 29th, 2012 13m 5s

The British response to the outbreak of War in 1914. Dr Catriona Pennell, Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, explains how the reaction to the outbreak of the first world war was much more complex than traditional accounts would le

The Historian and the Centenary

Oct 29th, 2012 22m 24s

Important questions, problems, and challenges pertaining to the role historians and scholars will play in the centenary of the First World War. Presented by Dr Pierre Purseigle, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham

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