Imperial War Museum: Making a New World
KathrynSunday, March 17, 2019
This week I visited the Imperial War Museum, London on a research trip to the archive. The reading room closes for an hour's lunch br...
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The Women of the Y
KathrynSunday, March 10, 2019
YMCA poster, 1918 ( source ) During the First World War up to 40% of the YMCA's staff on the Western Front were female. It is likely...
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"But R.E.K., You Take the Piccalilli" - 2nd Lieut Raymond E Knight, Fifth Glosters
KathrynSunday, March 03, 2019
In much of my research into my local t territorials, the Fifth Glosters, I have come across the name of Raymond E Knight, a soldier who ...
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Book Review - 1916: A Global History, by Keith Jeffery
KathrynSunday, February 24, 2019
Keith Jeffery, 1916: A Global History, Bloomsbury (2015). £12.99 I picked up 1916: A Global History on a whim in Waterstones last ye...
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Garford War Memorial
KathrynSunday, February 17, 2019
Cycling through the small village of Garford (a few miles west of Abingdon, Oxfordshire) this week, I came across a very interesting war ...
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'Serving the Mind, Body and Spirit: The YMCA's First World War Mission
KathrynSunday, February 10, 2019
This article is taken from a five minute presentation I gave to the Oxford History Graduate Network on 6th February 2018. It gives a brief o...
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