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Mutinies and Death Sentences in the Foresters, 1914-18
The Sherwood Foresters, pictured here in 1916 Now this looks like an interesting project. The Nottingham Radical History Group have used their long-standing experience of investigating and remembering...
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The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, March 1915
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle was the first of the British spring offensives in 1915, when the Allied commanders were keen to escape the static conditions that had emerged and break through the German...
View ArticleFrom Bombay to the Western Front
On Tuesday evening, I attended a commemorative event at the Imperial War Museum North. It had been organised to reflect on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, which was the first...
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The development of gas masks
Here’s an interesting piece by University of Nottingham engineer Mike Fay on the development of the gas mask in the First World War.
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Remembering Jacob Hardy Smith
Like many universities, Nottingham was touched by the Great War. In this guest post, Emma Thorne looks at the story of one young man whose journey took him from Nottingham to the battlefields of...
View ArticleAyette Indian and Chinese Cemetery 1917-1918
In this post, Professor John Beckett outlines the hidden history preserved in a small corner of Northern France A few miles south of Arras, along a road tucked in behind the village of Ayette, one of...
View ArticleCzech Cemetery near Arras
Dr Nigel Hunt explores a cemetery dedicated to the often-forgotten Czechs on the Western Front Between Arras and Bethune, near the village of La Targette there are two monuments, one on either side of...
View ArticleEvent: Pat Barker in Conversation
As part of UNESCO Nottingham City of Literature, award-winning British writer Pat Barker will be appearing at Nottingham Playhouse on Wednesday 15 June. Barker is one of the leading novelists of the...
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Community, Identity and Commemoration: Britain and the First World War Friday 23 June, Heap Lecture Theatre, University of Derby, Kedleston Road The Passchendaele campaign, fought in the Flanders mud,...
View ArticleEvent: We Will Remember Them Exhibition
LAUNCH EVENT: Friday 22nd September 6:30pm New Art Exchange 39-40 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham NG9 6BE The We Will Remember Them project, funded by the Centre for Hidden Histories, aims to uncover...
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