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Popular Films

What themes unite better-known films about the First World War?

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Obscure Films

What makes a First World War film ‘obscure’?

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Board Games of the First World War

Could you play a board game about the First World War, during the First World War?

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The Christmas Truce of 1914

How do you portray a moment of peace during the First World War when it’s not always clear what actually happened?

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‘Blasted Things’ with Lesley Glaister

How do you write a novel about the First World War without resorting to cliché?

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Dreamers of the Day: TE Lawrence

How does popular culture see Lawrence of Arabia?

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Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

What happens when a Sunday night crime caper takes the history of the First World War seriously?

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Peaky Blinders

Did the First World War inspire organised crime in inter-war Britain?

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Babylon Berlin

How has the First World War been translated by German popular culture?

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Heavy Metal

Why do some Heavy Metal bands examine the First World War?

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Georgette Heyer

What is the relationship between war and romance?

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Star Wars

How closely do the events of the First World War relate to those in ‘A Galaxy Far, Far Away’?

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An Introduction

Who are we? What do we do? And what really happens at academic conferences during the tea breaks?

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Jessica Meyer

Associate Professor of Modern British History at Leeds University. My research interests lie at the intersection of the histories of gender, particularly masculinity, medicine and warfare.

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Chris Kempshall

A historian focusing on the First World War and popular representations of warfare. I received my PhD from the University of Sussex in 2013. My thesis examined relations between British and French soldiers during the First World War.

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Angus Wallace

A Postgraduate Researcher at Leeds University. My current research explores all the men who appeared before the North Riding Military Appeal Tribunal, 1916-18. 

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