Act of Remembrance, Friday 11 November, 11am

Staff and students across the university are invited to participate in the Act of Remembrance by […]

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Tags: act of remembrance, First World War, remembrance day

Amputated Men: The British Nigerian disabled men of the First World War and their crisis of masculinity

When we think of the First World War, most people envision the trench warfare in France […]

Tags: Disability December, First World War, masculinity, public lecture

Commemorating 100 years since the end of World War I

At 11am on 11 November 1918 the guns fell silent and the First World War was […]

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Tags: First World War, Hsitory, Mike Noble, Professor John Beckett, World War One

Digging the Trenches – Great War Archaeology

Andy Robertshaw is a military historian, author and television expert, and will give a talk on the topic of archaeology during the First World War. His presentation will focus on archaeological evidence to highlight the Great War as experienced rather than imagined.

Tags: Andy Robertshaw, First World War, history, military, Trent in Trenches

Remembering forgotten heroes of the Great War

Flanders Fields, muddy trenches, the poetry of Wilfred Owen, poppies, the final episode of Blackadder Goes […]

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Tags: Department of History, First World War, Professor John Beckett, rts and Humanities Research Council, The Centre for Hidden Histories

Behold the Man Images of the dead Christ have inspired this body of work by Fay […]

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Tags: All Quiet in the Weston Gallery, Behold the Man, Fay Mummery, First World War, Hiding Out, Jackie Berridge, Perfume and Savages, Permindar Kaur