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War, Society and Culture

Guernica by Picasso

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) and Mark Condos (KCL).

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Term 1- Autumn 2024

The Patriotic Mobilisation of the British Community in Chile during the World Wars: A Transnational Collaboration Network from South America

Roberto Pérez-Castro (Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago de Chile/University of Kent)

Memoirs and their Contexts: Nurses in the Great War, especially Germany Post–1933

Jerry Palmer (London Metropolitan University)

The Language of Remembrance: First World War Memorial Inscriptions in Wales

Jenny Turner (University of Kent)

Term 2- Winter 2025

Militant ‘Amazons’, Amateur Soldiering and Institutional Militarisation in Britain and Europe: The Origins of the First World War Women's Corps, 1780s–1914

Krisztina Robert (Roehampton University)

‘Prepared To Make a Fine Fuss’: Civil Society’s Contestation of the Environmental Impact of Britain’s Long Second World War, 1936–46

Gary Willis (Bristol)

Stars in Service: The Disruption of the Second World War onto Women’s Celebrity in the UK, USA, and France

Clare V. Church (Aberystwyth University)

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