What happens when you combine the First World War with a 1970s cult sci-fi classic?
This month we watched ‘Assignment 2’ from the television series Sapphire & Steel which features a ghostly First World War soldier haunting an abandoned railway station. Along the way we discuss differing approaches to sacrifice, the idea of an ‘unjust’ death, and where the show sits on our ongoing ‘creepy’ list.
What happens when a late-twentieth-century detective novelist develops strong opinions about the First World War?
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.
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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