A new book, by Edward James Yorke, entitled Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War: Forgotten Colonial Crisis (with a foreword by Professor Sir Hew Strachan), was published by Taurus / Macmillan in June 2015.
Category Archives: WW1
Reclaiming material memories of the First World War through ALS: a Prisoner of War Camp in Czersk, Poland
For researchers interested in archaeology and the First World War, please see here for a poster, which presents the results of reclaiming material memories of the Prisoners of War Camp (PoW), run by the Germans during the First World War in Czersk (Poland) using ALS data and its derivatives.
Further information on this work can be found in:
Kobiałka D., Kostyrko M., Kajda K., 2015, Inconspicous and forgotten material memories of the First World War: the case of a PoW camp in Czersk, Poland [in:]Zalewska A., Scott J., Saunders N. (eds) Archaeology as a Medium of Reconciliation. Modern Conflict Archaeology (1914-2014), in press.
Hydrophones and piezoelectricity: Ernest Rutherford and anti-submarine innovations in the Royal Navy during World War One
Dr Elizabeth Bruton, Co-curator / Researcher, Harry’s Story: A Scientist Lost to War, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford has made available her recent presentation entitled Hydrophones and piezoelectricity: Ernest Rutherford and anti-submarine innovations in the Royal Navy during World War One.
You can access a copy here.
New book: War in the Balkans: Conflict and Diplomacy before WW1
Based on a 2012 Oxford conference, the forthcoming book ‘War in the Balkans: Conflict and Diplomacy before World War 1’ by James Pettifer and Tom Buchanan will be published shortly by I B Tauris.
Experts and volunteers needed for WW1 reminiscence event at Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, Saturday 26 September
Saturday 26 September, 1-4pm: Remembering the Great War
A reminiscence day inviting the public to share family memories, papers and objects from World War One.
Description: Do you have memorabilia from World War One? Bring your World War One letters, photographs, diaries, objects, and diaries to the Museum of the History of Science on Saturday 26 September to share your ancestors’ memorabilia and memories of the war. We want to save this material and share it on the internet so everyone has a better understand of what the war meant to ordinary people especially those in Oxfordshire.
Bring your objects to the Museum of the History of Science on Saturday 26 September. We will photograph and scan your pictures, objects and documents and put them online on Oxford at War and Europeana 1914-1918.
CFP: The Balkans and Migration on the 100th Anniversary of the First World War International Congress
The First World War, one of the greatest tragedies in the history of humankind, caused the death of millions of people, migrations and change of borders in the Ottoman lands in particular and in the world in general. In this respect, Istanbul University and the Federation of Rumelia-BalkanAssociations regard necessary to raise the issue with an academic perspective.
The congress of “The Balkans and Migration on the 100th Anniversary of the First World War” aims at shedding light on the borders movements during the First World War, their political, military, socio-cultural and economic implications on the societies as well as states
Transportation and accommodation expenses of the participants during the congress will be met by the Organizers. Papers will be presented in English and Turkish. Those who wish to attend to congress with a paper must send the abstracts accordingly up to September 15, 2015. In this context, Participation Form must be filled out completely. The full text of the papers must be submitted via e-mail by November 15, 2015. The papers not delivered up to the announced date will be removed from the congress program.
The congress will be held in Istanbul on 2-4th of December 2015. The papers which are approved by the Scientific Committee and presented in the sessions will be published in the congress proceedings book. We will be pleased by your participation to the Congress of “The Balkans and Migration on the 100th Anniversary of the First World War” with an original paper.
For more information about the congress, please see here.
AHS Classics Virtual Issue: Australia and the First World War
This Special AHS Classics Virtual Issue highlights the important contribution that Australian Historical Studies has made to our understanding of Australia and the First World War. Drawing on over forty years of scholarship and debate, the volume showcases key articles by some of Australia’s most significant historians of the war and the Anzac tradition that emerged from it. These articles show that the adaptability of the Anzac legend requires investigation and caution in the production of new histories of events a century distant.
The articles in this virtual special issue are currently free to view until the end of December 2015. For further information and to access the articles, click here.