For researchers interested in archaeology and the First World War, please see here for a paper, which presents survey information relating to the prisoner of war camp in Czersk, Poland.
Category Archives: WW1
WW1 Wiki-edit-a-thon, IT Services, 10 November 2015
On Tuesday 10th November 2015 the University of Oxford IT Services are hosting a Wikipedia Editathon on the theme of World War I and Oxford.
Time: Tuesday 10 November, 2-5pm
Location: IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford OX2 6NN
The focus of the session will be on editing and improving existing Wikipedia articles and adding images. The theme is WW1 with a particular focus on Oxford so subject expertise is useful (though not necessary – an interest in the topic and in learning about Wikipedia is a good starting point). No previous experience of wiki editing is necessary. The aim is to improve or create Wikipedia articles on World War I topics and highlight the role of Oxford as both a city and a university, in this historical conflict.
Training will be led by Martin Poulter, the Bodleian Libraries’ Wikimedian In Residence. Expert knowledge about the War or previous Wiki editing experience is NOT necessary, though subject experts and experienced editors are also welcome.
This is a free event, run as part of the University’s centenary activities. Non-University members are welcome.
For more information, see here. To book a place please visit: https://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TWOHE (University members) or email courses@it.ox.ac.uk (non-University members).
Jesus College graduate scholarship, linked with GLGW
Jesus College, Oxford Graduate Scholarship, generously funded by members of Jesus College History alumni.
This scholarship is linked to the TORCH network Globalising and Localising the Great War (GLGW) project, History Faculty, University of Oxford, for research on the First World War.
We wish to encourage applications for proposed doctoral theses to be based in the History Faculty that relate to the main project areas of GLGW:
• The Global-Imperial Dimension
• The Economics of War and Peace
• Global War and World Religions
• Military Law and Military-Civil Relations
• Global Cultural Representations of Conflict
When making the application it would be helpful to use the phrase ‘This proposed topic would fit with the Globalising and Localising the Great War Programme’ in the thesis proposal and to mention a member of the Programme as a prospective supervisor. We would wish particularly to encourage transnational and comparative projects, and would also welcome interdisciplinary projects.
Eligibility – Home/EU applicants
Value – Jesus College funds University and college fee, and full living expenses
Duration – up to four years (depending on period of fee liability)
Application – via University application form for graduate study by the January 2016 application deadline
For more information on Jesus College, see here.
For more information on the History Faculty, see here.
To apply, see the University of Oxford Application Guide here.
We hope to be able to contact successful candidates by 1 May 2016.
CfA: “Remember the Dead, Remind the Survivors, Warn the Descendants“ – War Memorials from a Global Perspective
War destroys human life, but at the same time creates the space that can lead to memorialization. The memories of war are often physically expressed by war memorials. These sites of remembrance may be different in many ways, following national contexts and traditions, however, there are also many similarities which bridge national/cultural differences. Regardless of the fact of who is being remembered, e.g. soldiers, civilians, victors or vanquished, there is a tradition of war memorials which is as old as warfare itself.
For an edited volume on war memorials from a global perspective we seek contributions by historians and those working in related fields such as memory studies, gender studies, media studies, etc.
We request your short proposal (around 300 words) and an abbreviated CV by December 10, 2015.
Final chapters with a length of 7.000-10.000 words, using footnotes following the latest Chicago Manual of Style are due by May 31, 2016.
Please send all materials, or enquiries to KPearl@qcc.cuny.edu and FJacob@qcc.cuny.edu
Further information here.
CFP: The First World War at Sea, 1914-19
The First World War at Sea, 1914-19
Conference at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
Friday 3 to Saturday 4 June, 2016
The National Maritime Museum, The British Commission for Military History, and The British Commission for Maritime History are jointly organizing an international conference on the First World War at sea to be held at Greenwich in June 2016.
While there have recently been a number of conferences and publications looking at land-based histories of the First World War, there has been relatively little consideration of the war at sea, its significance and its broader contexts. In the centenary year of the Battle of Jutland, The First World War at Sea seeks to address this lacuna through papers that will address the breadth and complexity of the maritime sphere between 1914–19. The organizers welcome proposals that explore political, strategic, tactical, operational, cultural, social, institutional, economic, and industrial contexts – the list is not definitive. The organizers would encourage proposals that move beyond solely British issues and perspectives.
Papers will be considered for publication in special issues of the British Journal of Military History and the Journal for Maritime History.
The deadline for paper proposals is 1st December 2015.
Further information here.
Stress: Approaches to the First World War
PhD students from University College London’s Student Engagement Project are curating an exhibition around the theme of stress in the First World War.
Stress brings together a diverse collection of objects, ranging from a haemorrhaged brain to magic lantern slides from Francis Galton and Ambrose Fleming, with many on public display for the first time. The objects selected will challenge visitors to re-assess the effects of the First World War on the mind, the body and the environment.
Stress will run at the North Lodge, Gower Street, London between 9 October and 20 November 2015, from 12pm to 5pm. Euston Square, Warren Street, Goodge Street, Euston, Russell Square and King’s Cross tube stations are within walking distance.
For more information, see here.
Call for chapters: Popular Song around the World during the First World War
A considerable bibliography exists on nineteenth century popular song, and somewhat less on song from the first two decades of the twentieth century. The years of the First World War have been little studied, though in some countries this work has begun. This book will go further towards filling this gap, working on the assumption that popular song of the time, often presented on the variety theatre stage and distributed by the sale of sheet music, expressed the joys, fears and fantasies of millions, and constituted a significant part of their history.
Only work which has not before been published in English will be considered. Detailed proposals for chapters (around 500 words, with a 300 word biography of the person proposing) should be sent to: john.mullen@wanadoo.fr by 15 January 2016.
For more information, see here.