Iso Rae, the Unrecognised War Artist
KathrynSunday, March 28, 2021
In early 1914 the town of Etaples in Northern France was home to a colony of artists, a predominantly anglophone group of painters noted for...
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Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
KathrynSunday, March 07, 2021
This book was gifted to me by the publisher, Granta Books, for a blog post, but the post is entirely my own words and hasn't been pre-ap...
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Downton at War
KathrynSunday, February 21, 2021
[Spoilers ahead - but come on, it's been a decade!] In an attempt to stave off the Lockdown Three boredom, two weeks ago I sat down to ...
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The World's Youngest YMCA Member
KathrynSunday, February 14, 2021
As part of the YMCA's holistic support for soldiers during the First World War, the organisation made arrangements for the loved ones of...
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DPhil Diaries 14: Running in the Footsteps of Vera Brittain and Geoffrey Wellum
KathrynSunday, January 31, 2021
In the quiet lockdown evenings this week I've been listening to the audiobook First Light, a memoir of Geoffrey Wellum's life as a...
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Adventure and Tragedy: The Life of Mrs Alec-Tweedie
KathrynSunday, January 24, 2021
In the years before the First World War, Ethel Brilliana Tweedie had established herself as a pioneering woman. Writing under the name Mrs. ...
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