War, Society and Culture

Venue: Hybrid: Online-via zoom & Pollard N301, IHR
Time: Wednesday 17:30
Convenors: Timothy Bowman (Kent), Ambrogio Caiani (Kent), Mark Connelly (Kent), Stefan Goebel (Kent), Richard Grayson (Oxford Brookes), Heather Jones (UCL), Erica Wald (Goldsmiths)

Term 1- Autumn 2022

05 oct 2022

The Long Afterlives of Total War: Living with Remains of War in Rural Germany (1945–present)

Laura Tradii (University of Kent)

Online- via Zoom

02 nov 2022

The Crimean War (1854-6) in Victorian Religious Thought and Intellectual Culture

Petros Spanou (University of Oxford)

Online- via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

14 dec 2022

'Hunger, Disease, and Turkish Pillage’: Locusts and Famine in Palestine through the Lens of British Media, 1915–1923

Anne Caldwell (University of Aberdeen)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2023

18 jan 2023

“But one should need to know everything…”: The Place of the Risorgimento in Military History

Frederick C. Schneid (High Point University)

Online- via Zoom

15 mar 2023

CANCELLED A “heartbreaking reality”: Coping with Home-Loss in Urban Britain during the Second World War

Jacinta Mallon (University of Kent)

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2023

03 may 2023

‘I seemed to have seen it all in a panorama somewhere’: Responses to British Military Panoramas, 1800–1900

Ian Beckett (University of Kent)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

31 may 2023

Police as Ploughmen in 1917/18: How Britain’s Policemen Helped Local Populations by Temporary Release into Agriculture

Mary Fraser (University of Glasgow)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

28 jun 2023

Pastoral Quietude for Shell-Shock and National Recovery

Michael Guida (University of Sussex)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

War, Society and Culture

Term 1- Autumn 2022

The Long Afterlives of Total War: Living with Remains of War in Rural Germany (1945–present)

The Crimean War (1854-6) in Victorian Religious Thought and Intellectual Culture

'Hunger, Disease, and Turkish Pillage’: Locusts and Famine in Palestine through the Lens of British Media, 1915–1923

Term 2- Winter 2023

“But one should need to know everything…”: The Place of the Risorgimento in Military History

CANCELLED A “heartbreaking reality”: Coping with Home-Loss in Urban Britain during the Second World War

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2023

‘I seemed to have seen it all in a panorama somewhere’: Responses to British Military Panoramas, 1800–1900

Police as Ploughmen in 1917/18: How Britain’s Policemen Helped Local Populations by Temporary Release into Agriculture

Pastoral Quietude for Shell-Shock and National Recovery

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War, Society and Culture

Term 1- Autumn 2022

The Long Afterlives of Total War: Living with Remains of War in Rural Germany (1945–present)

The Crimean War (1854-6) in Victorian Religious Thought and Intellectual Culture

'Hunger, Disease, and Turkish Pillage’: Locusts and Famine in Palestine through the Lens of British Media, 1915–1923

Term 2- Winter 2023

“But one should need to know everything…”: The Place of the Risorgimento in Military History

*CANCELLED* A “heartbreaking reality”: Coping with Home-Loss in Urban Britain during the Second World War

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2023

‘I seemed to have seen it all in a panorama somewhere’: Responses to British Military Panoramas, 1800–1900

Police as Ploughmen in 1917/18: How Britain’s Policemen Helped Local Populations by Temporary Release into Agriculture

Pastoral Quietude for Shell-Shock and National Recovery

Related Content

Military History Collections

First World War Collections

Memory and Commemoration Collections

Follow the War, Society and Culture Seminar on twitter

CANCELLED A “heartbreaking reality”: Coping with Home-Loss in Urban Britain during the Second World War