Kathryn's history blog

'Till We Have Built Jerusalem': The Holy City in the Imperial Imagination

KathrynSunday, February 16, 2020

One of my favourite paintings in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is Edward Lear's Jerusalem . For me, it perfectly encapsulates the nine...

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KathrynSunday, February 09, 2020

January turned out to be a surprisingly big and important month for me. After a refreshing Christmas break, I managed to shake off the ne...

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KathrynSunday, February 02, 2020

When James Travers Blount-Dinwiddie was born in Dumfries on 25th April 1891, he appeared the typical middle class boy. His father, also J...

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KathrynSunday, January 26, 2020

Following on from last week's post about 1917 and lots of general discussion I've seen recently about war films and their value t...

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KathrynSunday, January 19, 2020

Warning: Spoilers Ahead Last night I saw the new hit film 1917. I went into it both excited to see a film about 'my' period of h...

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KathrynSunday, January 12, 2020

At the height of the Third Battle of Ypres in late 1917, there were more than 80 YMCA huts located in the Ypres Salient, meaning that the...

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