Watch the talk by Jeremy Gordon-Smith youtu.be/eMbKPDtc-5Q Ivan Bawtree has left behind a vast array of archives that tell the story of his work as a photographer with the Graves Registration Units on the Western Front from 1915 to 1919. War, Media & Society Western Front Association Unlocking Ypres

The final Canterbury session of the School of History at the University of Kent In Flanders Fields Museum seminar is next week! 📜Dr Birger Stichelbaut & Simon Verdegeem, 'Missing at the Front, 1914-1918' 📅 22/02/24, 6pm 📍 UKC, Keynes Seminar Room 16 Attendance is free and open to all!

The IHR War, Society and Culture seminar returns 🚨tomorrow🚨 with a paper from Krisztina Robert (Roehampton) on 'The Origins of the First World War Women's Corps, 1780s-1914'. 🗓️ 8 May 2024, 5.30pm 📍 In-person Institute of Historical Research / Online via zoom history.ac.uk/events/militan…

Delighted to have been approved as an Honorary Research Fellow at War, Media & Society! I spent many years for my Masters and PhD studies at Kent, and am so pleased I get to continue to work with them on future projects 📚

The next IHR War, Society and Culture seminar will host Yorai Linenberg (Birkbeck) for a paper on Jewish POWs in Nazi captivity. 🗓️ 5 June 2024, 5.30pm 📍 In-person Institute of Historical Research / Online via Zoom More details and booking info here: history.ac.uk/events/jewish-…

For the last War, Society and Culture seminar of the term, we'll be hearing from our very own Prof. Mark Connelly! 🥳 📜 'Chalk, Englishness and the Great War: From Southern England to the Somme' 🗓️ 3 July 2024, 5.30pm 📍 In-person Institute of Historical Research & online history.ac.uk/events/chalk-e…

The IHR War, Society and Culture seminar returns next week! All welcome as usual 🥳 📜 Roberto Pérez-Castro, 'The Patriotic Mobilisation of the British Community in Chile during the World Wars' 📅 09/10/24, 5.30pm 📍 In-person Institute of Historical Research & online history.ac.uk/events/patriot…

The second session of the War, Society and Culture seminar is next week! 📜 Jerry Palmer, 'Memoirs and their Contexts: Nurses in the Great War, especially Germany Post–1933' 📅 06/11/24, 5.30pm 📍 In-person Institute of Historical Research & online All info here 👇 history.ac.uk/events/memoirs…

The “Langemarck” streets project continues today with a conference of heritage experts at Langemark. Their aim is to contextualise streets named by the Nazis after the battle of 1914. More info on this project can be found here: langemark-poelkapelle.be/en/langemarcks…

Edward Corse has put together a list of the best books that explore the role of neutral countries in times of war, including his own #OpenAccess book edited with Marta García Cabrer, Propaganda and Neutrality bit.ly/415rSck 🔓 bit.ly/417ewfr

The last IHR War, Society and Culture seminar of term will host School of History at the University of Kent's own @jennyturner_! 📜 Jenny Turner, 'The Language of Remembrance: First World War Memorial Inscriptions in Wales' 📅 04/12/24, 5.30pm 📍 In-person Institute of Historical Research & online history.ac.uk/events/languag…

Fascinated by the enduring appeal of combat as spectacle? Interested in the interlinked phenomena of sport and war? Send us your proposals for papers, panels and posters (deadline 7 Jan, conference 28/29 Oct 2025 Royal Armouries). Details at royalhistsoc.org/calendar/comba…

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 'Contexts of the Holocaust', a conference co-organised by British & Irish Association for Holocaust Studies and War, Media & Society, will take place on 3-4 July 2025. Closing date for abstracts is 28th February - find more info at biahs.co.uk/conferences/

📢 An article co-written by one of our honorary fellows, Edward Corse, has recently been published in the Slavonic and East European Review. Find 'Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Polish Relations through Medical and Scientific Exchanges, 1939–1956' here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/articl…

The IHR War, Society and Culture seminar returns this Wednesday! 🥳 Krisztina Robert's paper on 'The Origins of the First World War Women's Corps, 1780s–191' will start at 5.30pm and be available to watch both in person and online. More info here: history.ac.uk/events/militan…

The next War, Society and Culture seminar takes place tomorrow (26/02) at 5.30pm. 📃 Dr. Gary Willis, ‘Prepared To Make a Fine Fuss’: Civil Society’s Contestation of the Environmental Impact of Britain’s Long Second World War, 1936–46 Details: history.ac.uk/events/prepare… #envhist

A reminder that the War, Media and Society 30th Anniversary lecture is taking place TONIGHT at 17.30! All are very welcome to attend, either online or in Canterbury.

The final IHR War, Society and Culture seminar is taking place online this evening at 5.30pm! Our speaker is Clare V. Church, on 'Stars in Service: The Disruption of the Second World War onto Women’s Celebrity in the UK, USA, and France' More info here: history.ac.uk/events/stars-s…

It's the final IHR War, Society and Culture seminar of the term tomorrow at 5.30pm! Join us for a paper from Andrew McCarthy and John Adderley, 'Where Do You Put the Camera? Re-filming The Battle of the Somme' 🎥 Details and booking here: history.ac.uk/events/where-d…

Next up on the WMS 'Munitions of the Mind' blog, we have a new post from Dr. Gary Willis all about the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and its work in the era of the Second World War. Check it out at the link below 👇 blogs.kent.ac.uk/munitions-of-t…