Once one moves beyond the canonical authors and texts, the diversity of First World War poetry makes it an ideal choice of source material for anyone wishing to teach a broad range of perspectives ...

Once one moves beyond the canonical authors and texts, the diversity of First World War poetry makes it an ideal choice of source material for anyone wishing to teach a broad range of perspectives ...

< Topics War poets The vivid experience of fighting in the First World War led many men and women…

Company Sergeant Major Richardson wrote a letter home on 12 January 1916 from the relative safety of La Clytte[i], Belgium (now known as De Klijte), which was a camp used as a Divisional Reserve fo…

Percy Smith, Solitude High Wood, Sanctuary Wood, Delville Wood, Polygon Wood, Belleau Wood – these are some of the best-known sites of the f...

Dr Kathryn White follows the life and work of Harold Boas from Perth to London

This book is an original interpretation of domestic patriotism and the limitations of wartime mobilisation in rural and urban communities of the British Home Front&#8230;

1916 postcard Known as the “Canadian Rupert Brooke,” Bernard Freeman Trotter was a twenty-five-year-old graduate student at the Univers...

As well as running its own conferences every couple of years, the MWHN also encourages and supports its Members in coming together to participate in panels at other academic events around the world…

Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together p…

May Wedderburn Cannan In her autobiography Grey Ghosts and Voices , May Wedderburn Cannan writes, The Census for 1921 had found there was in...

“ Although a citizen of the United States, the black man is regarded by the white American as an inferior being with whom relations of b...

Robert Frost and Edward Thomas On an August day in 1914, Edward Thomas and Robert Frost “were sitting on an orchard stile near Little I...

Cyril Horne & Emmy Wehlen Before Irish-born Cyril Morton Horne joined the King’s Own Scottish Borderers and served nearly a year fightin...