Stress: Approaches to the First World War

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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

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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.

New book: Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War: Forgotten Colonial Crisis

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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.

Reclaiming material memories of the First World War through ALS: a Prisoner of War Camp in Czersk, Poland

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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

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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

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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.

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Experts and volunteers needed for WW1 reminiscence event at Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, Saturday 26 September

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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.