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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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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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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'Something Doing Every Night': A Soldiers' Haven in Cairo
KathrynSunday, November 15, 2020
Throughout the First World War thousands of Australian soldiers disembarked in Egypt for their first taste of army life. After a month trave...
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'Put Your Trust in God': National Days of Prayer in the Two World Wars
KathrynSunday, November 08, 2020
This week in the House of Commons DUP Member of Parliament Jim Shannon called for a National Day of Prayer in recognition of the Covid-19 pa...
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Geoffrey Malins and the Battle to Film the Somme
KathrynSunday, July 05, 2020
Just before Zero Hour on 1st July 1916, thousands of soldiers stood in wait, ready to go over the top in the much-anticipated Big Push. T...
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My Great Great Grandfather, Pte Percy William Parsons
KathrynSunday, April 19, 2020
On my first battlefields trip with my school in 2009 we paid a special visit to Athies Communal Cemetery to visit the grave of my great gre...
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Snapshots From the Front: Celebrating Easter during the First World War
KathrynSunday, April 12, 2020
This Easter is unlike one we have experienced before. As we stay home to stay safe, we are without many of the holiday's traditions, wi...
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'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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