Finding 'The Dairy': Locating the YMCA's Huts in the Ypres Salient
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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Sunday, 12 January 2020
Sunday, 5 January 2020
DPhil Diaries Nine: Turning Over a New Leaf
Happy New Year! The beginning of a new decade feels as good a time as any to get back into the swing of blogging and return to posting he...
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Sunday, 1 December 2019
My Top Ten Places to Visit in Ypres
Following on from my recent post of my top ten places to visit on the Somme battlefields, this post looks at the must-see places in the...
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Sunday, 13 October 2019
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, 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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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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