Dr Robert Johnson will be leading a staff ride for the Rifles regiment in April 2015 to Ypres, and the commemoration of Geoffrey Woolley’s VC (the first Territorial Victoria Cross) will be filmed.
Category Archives: WW1
Forthcoming volume: East, West and South of Suez: the Indian Army in the First World War
On the strength of a conference at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) this year, Alan Jeffreys (Imperial War Museum) will produce a volume for Helion Press later in 2015 on the first year of the First World War, entitled East, West and South of Suez: the Indian Army in the First World War. Dr Rob Johnson has written a chapter on the Indian Army (1914-1915).
More details will be posted to the Books page of this site, when available.
Event: First World War in the Middle East, 20-22 April 2016
The Changing Character of War (CCW) and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) will run a joint event on the First World War in the Middle East on 20-22 April 2016.
For further details please contact Rob Johnson.
Material culture of the Great War: The Tyneside Pioneers
Historic England: First World War Northumbrian practice trenches, as revealed by aerial reconnaissance.
The carnage and misery of trench warfare is for many the abiding image of the First World War. Practice trenches, built by soldiers in training, are among the more emphatic monuments to that conflict to remain visible in the English landscape. A complex of such sites in Northumberland throws light on the achievements of one such group of soldiers, known as the 1st Tyneside Pioneers.
Further information here.
Physics and the Great War
Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics, St Cross College, Oxford
Saturday, June 13 2015, 10.30 am – 5.30 pm
Arguably the First World War saw the greatest advent of new science and technology and the role of science in warfare than any conflict hitherto. On land the innovations of barbed wire, machine guns and eventually, tanks changed the nature of land battles. At sea, radio communications changed operation of surface fleets and the introduction of submarine warfare changed the nature of war at sea. This war saw also the advent of aerial warfare which was to change the nature of all future wars. This conference seeks to review the key ways in which physics and its mathematics changed the nature of conflict from various points of views: technical, historical and sociological.
Further information here. Download the poster: Physics and the Great War Poster
Registration to attend this conference is free, but must be confirmed using the Conference booking form by Monday 8th June.
Blog and exhibition: Maori soldiers that served at Gallipoli
A blog from Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand highlights the role of Maori soldies that served at Gallipoli, as an introduction to their exhibition Gallipoli: the scale of our war.
Workshop – Translating World War One: The Case of T. E. Lawrence
Workshop organised by Mary Bryden, fellow at the Paris IAS
Date et heure:
12/05/2015 – 09:30 – 17:30
Lieu: Institut d’études avancées de Paris, 17 quai d’Anjou, 75004 Paris
During the current Centenary of the First World War, we are commemorating the first mass industrialised war. If the number of victims was unprecedented, so too was the manner in which this quickly became a literary war. Amongst those caught up in the conflict were many who wished to describe this radical break with normality. Some of these narrations appeared in the course of the conflict itself, while others formed part of the second wave of war literature, between 1929 and 1930. The prevalent literary model is that of the muddy fields and trenches of the Western Front. However, this journée d’étude will concentrate upon the Middle Eastern Front and, in particular, on the person of T. E. Lawrence, whose war book Seven Pillars of Wisdom describes his participation in the Arab Revolt from 1916 to 1918.