Experiences of World War One: strangers, differences and locality
The British Association for Local History and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies are organising a workshop about the First World War.
The workshop will serve as "an introduction to researching war experience and its legacy: individual, family and community perspectives through the prism of the local, national and international".
The workshop will consider the opportunities - in terms of interacting with new people, places and societies - provided by the conflict, and poses several questions which will be explored:
- How did local communities interact with colonial and Dominion troops?
- In what ways did racial issues impact on local community relations during the war, and in its aftermath?
- What relationships evolved between communities, hospitals where colonial/Dominion troops were treated ad individual soldiers?
- How might the war's legacy be informed by ethnic minorities?
- During the war years, and after, how was the idea of Empire experienced, understood and imagined by people in British localities?
- To what extent did war change European colonial victors' views of their extended Empires?
Conference Venue: The Court Room, Senate House (first floor), Malet Street, London
To book tickets for the workshop, visit the Insititute of Commonwelath Studies website: http://events.sas.ac.uk/icws/events/view/14049
Tickets cost £25.00.
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Programme
10:00am Registration, and coffee/tea
10:30am Welcome and introduction: Professor Philip Murphy, Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS).
10:45am Keynote: Dr Catriona Pennell (Exeter) on the relationship of locality to national and international events in the First World War.
11:30am Local responses to ‘the other’:
1. Dr Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War Museum): Whose remembrance? A study of available research on communities in Britain, and the colonial experience of the First World War.
2. Dr Richard Smith (Goldsmiths, University of London): Responses to Black and Indian soldiers in Britain.
01:00pm Lunch
02:00pm Professor David Killingray (Goldsmiths, University of London; and ICwS): Localities, nations and Empire: Britain and Ireland in times of crisis, 1912-1922.
03.00pm Dr Mandy Banton (ICwS): Using The National Archives colonial records
03.45pm Final discussion, and tea
04:15pm End of Conference
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Contact:
Olga Jimenez
Events Manager
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Room 224A Senate House, Second Floor
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
020 7862 8871