Book Review: Men of War, by Jessica Meyer
Men of War: Masculinity and the First World War in Britain by Jessica Meyer, (Palgrave, 2008) A couple of years ago I went through a ...
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Sunday, 13 October 2019
Sunday, 29 September 2019
My Top Ten Places to Visit on the Somme #BattlefieldTopTen
In the first of a new series for my blog, this article looks at ten of the must-visit places for any battlefield tourist going to the Som...
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Sunday, 22 September 2019
"Duty Nobly Done" - Inscribing Meaning to the First World War
When visiting the battlefields, one of the things I find most interesting to look out for in the cemeteries is the choice of inscriptions...
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Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Autumn Battlefields 2019 - Day Seven: South of the Somme
Continuing on from yesterday morning's theme, today I drove south onto the French front, this time going below the River Somme. ...
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Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Autumn Battlefields 2019 - Day Six: Where British Meets French
This morning I cycled south to ride the sector of the Somme front attacked by the French 39e Division on 1st July 1916. This route pretty...
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Monday, 16 September 2019
Autumn Battlefields 2019 - Day Five: South of Arras
Today I headed north to spend the day on the Arras battlefields. My first visit was to the new CWGC Experience in Beaurains. This offers ...
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About Me
- Kathryn
- I'm Kathryn. a first year DPhil history student at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. My research focuses on the social experience of religion for soldiers in the First World War through the case study of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). This blog documents my PhD research, alongside other articles about the First World War, book reviews and battlefields diaries. When I'm not studying history, I can often be found running and cycling in the countryside of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
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