Christmas Truce
Can a story about soldiers shaking hands in the snow carry a warning for the nuclear age?
Blackadder
Was Blackadder Goes Forth the most powerful portrayal of the First World War ever put on television?
Fall of Eagles
How did the First World War bring down Europe’s great dynasties, and how did the BBC retell that story on screen?
War-Time In Our Street
What can a 1917 short story collection tell us about life on the British home front during the First World War?
The Great War and Modern Memory at 50
What makes a 50-year-old book on WWI still essential reading?
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?
Reginald Hill
What happens when a late-twentieth-century detective novelist develops strong opinions about the First World War?
Sapphire and Steel
What happens when you combine the First World War with a 1970s cult sci-fi classic?
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?
Walking Tours
How do you walk people through First World War landscapes? This month we welcome back Prof Mark Connelly to discuss his new walking tours endeavour
No(Wo)man’s Land: Writing history at the intersections of gender and First World War Studies
This month Angus, Chris and Jessica discuss Jessica’s professorial inaugural lecture, ‘No (Wo)man’s Land: writing history at the intersection of gender and First World War
Oh What a Lovely War
What happens when three historians watch a key play about the First World War?
Egyptian Encounters
What opportunities did the First World War provide for cultural tourism?
War Hospital
What happens when you turn a First World War medical process into a computer game?
The Grizzled
What happens when you turn the French experience of the war into a cooperative game?
The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
How did the First World War inspire the horror genre?