Episodes – Page 3

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?

‘Blasted Things’ with Lesley Glaister

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

Dreamers of the Day: TE Lawrence

How does popular culture see Lawrence of Arabia?

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

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

Peaky Blinders

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

Babylon Berlin

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

Heavy Metal

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

Georgette Heyer

What is the relationship between war and romance?

Star Wars

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

An Introduction

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

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.