How do you stage an exhibition on POWs at a museum?
This month we are joined by Lora Vogt from the National WW1 Museum in Kansas city, Missouri to discuss their new exhibition: ‘Captured’. Along the way we talk about how POWs have been obscured from modern memory, the benefits of online content, and how to make someone drive 5 days across America.
What happens when a controversial real-life figure becomes the centre of one of the BBC’s most politically charged wartime dramas?
What happens when a late-twentieth-century detective novelist develops strong opinions about 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.
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