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
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
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
What happens when three historians watch a key play about the First World War?
What opportunities did the First World War provide for cultural tourism?
What happens when you turn a First World War medical process into a computer game?
What happens when you turn the French experience of the war into a cooperative game?
How did the First World War inspire the horror genre?
What happens when you send Indiana Jones into the First World War?
What First World War cultural representations would you like to see adapted for the screen?
By popular demand! This month Chris, Angus and Jessica discuss productions of R.C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End, including the original play and the 1930 and 2017
What happens when you convert a seminal First World War novel into a big budget film?
What happened when people wanted to visit the battlefields of the First World War?
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.
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.
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.