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Reviewing First World War studies with Australian colleagues
One of the disinterred soldiers from the Pheasant Wood mass grave being carried for burial in the new CWGC Cemetery at Fromelles, 22 February 2010' IWM: Damon Cleary As a Collaborative Doctoral Award...
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The World During the First World War
Herrenhausen Gardens, Hannover. The venue for the conference ‘The World During the First World War’. Image courtesy of Anna Maguire. One of IWM’s new Collaborative Doctoral Award Students, Anna...
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The Challenges of Remembering: Researching Empire and War
To mark the publication of IWM’s guide to Researching the British Empire in the First World War, Anna Maguire reflects on the challenges of remembering war and empire. On 12 June 2014, I attended a...
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Guest Post: Black Poppies – Britain’s Black Community and the Great War
To mark the publication of his new book, ‘Black Poppies’, Stephen Bourne reflects on researching Britain’s black community and the First World War. The cover of Stephen Bourne’s new book, ‘Black...
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Looking for Home? New Zealanders in London during the First World War
New Zealand troops, led by an army band, marching through a London street after the First World War.© Alexander Turnbull Library Anna Maguire reflects on the activities of New Zealand troops in the...
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Remembering the Gallipoli Campaign, April 1915 – January 1916
Men of the Australian and New Zealand Division on a transport ship to Gallipoli, 1915. © IWM Q 13798 In his memoir, Over There with the Australians (1918), R. Hugh Knyvett, an Australian officer,...
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Suffering and survival: the captive body during the Second World War
Stanley Gimson, Kanyu Riverside Camp: Dysentery Ward (1943) © IWM (Art.IWM ART 16893) Throughout Southeast Asia during the Second World War, tropical diseases ravaged the bodies of those held by...
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It’s A Long Way to Tipperary: colonial troops and First World War music
A song sheet in the form of a scarf: “It’s a long way to Tipperary” © IWM (Q 70101) Alexander MacGregor, a British officer who served with the Indian army, wrote about an interesting musical...
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‘Exploring black people’s involvement in the First World War’: Free workshop...
John Siblon, ‘Between Hierarchy and Memory: Commemoration of African and Caribbean Servicemen after the First World War’. Photo: ©IWM I was invited to speak at a workshop on 15 October at the Imperial...
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‘V’ for Victory?
© IWM (K 1254), December 1941 This photograph of an Indian soldier on board a troop ship to Singapore in 1941 confronts us with a familiar gesture from the Imperial War Museums archives. The soldier...
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