Jane McChrystal surveys Norah Smyth’s engrossing photographs: a powerful record of women’s Suffrage activism, campaigning and social justice in East London.
Tag: First World War
Mutiny: Hidden Histories of Black British Soldiers in WWI
The latest in our Power in the Telling feature introduces ‘MUTINY’, a new documentary looking at the British Caribbean experience of the First World War and its legacies, as revealed by the last surviving veterans of the British West Indies Regiment.
Call for Papers: Homes fit for Heroes Centenary Conference
Homes fit for Heroes Centenary Conference: Learning from 1919 Call for Papers (closes: 5th January 2019) This conference is convened by the Learning from 1919 Steering Group in partnership with the Institute of Historical Research to commemorate the centenary of the passage of the 1919 Housing Act and the Homes […]
Radical Object: Military Sweetheart Brooches of the First World War
Penny Streeter examines the emotional history of sweetheart brooches; tokens of love and loss kept by the families of soldiers in the First World War.
Conscientious Objection Remembered
The streets of Haringey, north London, hide an intriguing history of First World War peace activism. Joanna Bornat explores a walking tour of forgotten sites of conscientious objection.
Testing Secret Agents: A Century of Human Experimentation at Porton Down
In the context of the ongoing fallout of the Salisbury nerve attack, Ulf Schmidt & David Peace explore the troubling history of the British state’s relationship with chemical weapons and secret science.
Changing the Landscape: An Individual in Conflict
Changing the Landscape is a contemporary visual arts project that interprets one individual account of the lived experience in the trenches, five months before the start of the Battle of the Somme.
