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As part of events to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History organised a major conference that explored the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affec...
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London and the First World War
Session 5: Dissent
Caroline Playne in wartime London
Richard Espley
(Senate House Library)
Recruitment, relief and reform. The impact of the First World War on the Anglican C...
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London and the First World War
Session 6: Air War
The men who bombed London: British interrogations of captured Zeppelin aircrew
Roderick Bailey
(Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford)
London a...
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London and the First World War
Session 7: Leisure
Memory, work, and leisure in London during the First World War
Ruth Percy
(Ruskin College, Oxford)
Chelsea FC and its urban fight against calls to abandon ...
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London and the First World War
Plenary Lecture 2
London in the First World War: questions of legacy
Jerry White
(Birkbeck, University of London)
As part of events to commemorate the centenary of the First ...
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London and the First World War
Plenary Lecture 1
London: a wartime metropolis in comparative perspective
Adrian Gregory
(Pembroke College, Oxford)
As part of events to commemorate the centenary of the Firs...
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London and the First World War
Session 1: Daily Life and Institutions
The war on waste: the national salvage campaign and the London boroughs
Peter Hounsell
(Independent Scholar)
Plants, people and the pro...
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London and the First World War
Session 2: Enemy Aliens
Martyrdom of a Metropolitan Maecenas: the rise and fall of Sir Edgar Speyer
Tony Lentin
(Wolfson College, Cambridge)
As part of events to commemorat...
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London and the First World War
Session 3: Communications and Transport
London, public transport, and the First World War
Simon Abernethy
(Cambridge)
The dilemmas of a London railway in wartime: the Metropo...
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London and the First World War
Session 4: Empire View
Visiting Mother - London through the eyes of Australian visitors
Elise Edmonds
(State Library NSW Sydney, Australia)
Looking for home: New Zealanders i...