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First World War meets popular culture and the media

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The Great War and Modern Memory at 50

What makes a 50-year-old book on WWI still essential reading?

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The Monocled Mutineer

What happens when a controversial real-life figure becomes the centre of one of the BBC’s most politically charged wartime dramas?

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Dope Girls

What was the real story behind the BBC series Dope Girls?

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Reginald Hill

What happens when a late-twentieth-century detective novelist develops strong opinions about the First World War?

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Sapphire and Steel

What happens when you combine the First World War with a 1970s cult sci-fi classic?

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Ian Isherwood, The Battalion and Digital History

What do you do when a student brings you a collection of family papers in a Harrods tin?

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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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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Is a Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds University. My current research focuses on manpower and authority in Britain, starting with the First World War and running through until the end of the Second World War.

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