Events
Event: Forward! Remembering Women Peace Crusaders Launch
On 16, Jun 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
July 23 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Free
Event: Battle of the Somme film
On 14, Jun 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
The Battle of The Somme, Imperial War Museums UNESCO listed film screening.
Blakesley Hall, Blakesley Road, Birmingham, B25 8RN
17 July 12pm
Symposium – Conflicting Accounts: Warfare and the Public Archive
On 07, Jun 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Saturday 11 June | 11am – 4pm | mac, Hexagon Theatre | Tickets £10 (£7 concessions)
With contributions from academic Professor Vron Ware and artists Terry Atkinson, Peter Kennard and Hew Locke, this symposium explores the subject of conflict and its interpretation in our national archives. Chaired by Professor Lynda Morris.
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Event: Hahakar – The Agony. Paintings by Sumantra Sengupta: India and Indians in the Great War
On 23, May 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
A seminar, in situ, with artist Sumantra Sengupta and Jonathan Harris
Birmingham City University, Parkside Building, Ground Floor, near The Shell, at 4.15pm on Wednesday 25 May 2016
Workshop: HLF WW1 Funding Support
On 12, May 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
HLF Wales Team will be holding a First World War information session on 28th June between 10.00am – 3.00pm for participants wishing to apply for funding to run a First World War Centenary project. You don’t need a definite project idea to attend – just come along to find out more.
Study Day: Mid-Staffordshire Military Appeals Tribunal 1916-1918
On 09, May 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Join Staffordshire Archives & Heritage as we open access to the Military Appeal Tribunal records, launch our exhibition and present a series of lectures on the effect of the Tribunals on Staffordshire’s communities during the Great War.
Call for Papers: Faith and the First World War
On 29, Apr 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Conference: UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, 21-22 JULY 2016
A programme of events to mark the centenary of the Women’s Peace Crusade will take place on 23 JULY 2016 at GLASGOW WOMEN’S LIBRARY
Talk: A Countryside at War: Rural England 1914-1919
On 20, Apr 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Professor Alun Howkins
A Countryside at War: Rural England 1914-1919
Wednesday 27 April, 6pm, the Hive Studio, University of Worcester
Call for Papers: Conflict, Faith and Conscience in the Modern World
On 19, Apr 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
International Network for the Study of War and Religion in the Modern World
Seventh Annual Conference
Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre, Amport House, Hampshire
Wednesday 13 – Friday 15 July 2016 Read more…
Talk: World War One and the Black Perspective
On 01, Apr 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Garry Stewart, Director of Recognize Black Heritage and Culture, will give a talk about the contributions of African and Caribbean communities to World War One at the National Memorial Arboretum on Saturday April 30 at 2pm.
Conference: Challenging History
On 17, Mar 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
The programme and registration for this year’s Challenging History conference, jointly hosted by Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museums Wales and Cardiff University, 29-30 June, has now been announced. For details click here.
Reminder: Friend or Foe? Discovery Session
On 16, Mar 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Join FRED for a ‘discovery session’ at the Library of Birmingham on Saturday 19 March 2016
Launch event: Absconditi Viscus
On 10, Mar 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Absconditi Viscus
6-8pm, 17 March 2016
Venue: Birmingham City University School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BX
Talk: Living the Heritage of Conflict
On 09, Mar 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Living the Heritage of Conflict: Memory, Identity and Memorialisation
5-7pm, 17 March 2016
European Research Institute (ERI) Digital Humanities Hub, University of Birmingham
Workshop: Why Remember?
On 07, Mar 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Why Remember?
5-6pm, 16 March
Muirhead Tower Seminar Room 113, University of Birmingham
Talk: Matron Lloyd and the University’s War Effort
On 04, Mar 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Matron Lloyd and the University’s War Effort
1-1.50pm, 14 March
Cadbury Research Library Chamberlain Seminar Room, University of Birmingham
Talk: Landscapes of Activism
On 23, Feb 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Dr Siân Roberts will be giving this year’s Friends of Birmingham Archives & Heritage annual lecture, titled ‘Landscapes of activism: Quaker women and social reform in Birmingham 1890s to 1940’.
The talk will take place in the Heritage Learning Space, Library of Birmingham on Saturday 5 March at 2pm.
Free to FoBAH members, £2 to non-members
Conference: Business As Usual?
On 20, Feb 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Business As Usual?: Institutional Impact in the First World War
Wednesday, 2 March 2016 in the Senate Room, University of Glasgow. All welcome.
Friend or Foe? Discovery session
On 19, Feb 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Join FRED for a ‘discovery session’ at the Library of Birmingham on Saturday 19 March 2016
Event: Women in the First World War
On 16, Feb 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Women in the First World War
Saturday 5 March 2016
People’s History Museum, Manchester
University of Birmingham Arts & Science Festival
On 15, Feb 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
The University of Birmingham’s Art & Science Festival returns 14-20 March 2016.
Themed ‘Memory and Forgetting’, the festival is a FREE programme showcasing culture, research and collaboration at the University through talks, exhibitions, performances, workshops and screenings.
Friend or Foe? Voices from World War One
On 11, Feb 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
For spring 2016, FRED presents a new production: Friend or Foe?
Home, Food & Family in WW1
On 10, Feb 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Home, Food and Family in WWI
Saturday 5 March, 2016
A conference organized by the Women’s History Network, Midlands Region and Voices of War and Peace WWI Engagement Centre
Free event: War & Conscience, 1914/18: Marking the Centenary of Conscription
On 03, Feb 2016 | In Events, WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
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Free event organised by ‘Quakers & the First World War: Lives & Legacies’ – Registration Required
‘War & Conscience, 1914/18: Marking the Centenary of Conscription’
2-4pm, 27 February 2016
AV Room, The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery,
Chamberlain Square, B3 3DH
Season 2016 14-18 NOW launched
On 21, Jan 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Yesterday saw the launch of the 2016 season of 14-18 NOW, a series of art commissions to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.
Show off your stuff at Home, Food & Family in WW1!
On 20, Jan 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Join us on Saturday 5 March 2016 at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings for a series of lectures and fascinating displays about Food and Family Life on the rural Home Front during World War One.
Call for papers: Beyond the Western Front
On 11, Jan 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
The Centre for Hidden Histories is proud to announce a two day Conference and Community Showcase, entitled Beyond the Western Front: The Global First World War, to take place at the Albert Hall Conference Centre, Nottingham, 1st and 2nd July 2016.
Call for papers: Changing the Future Research Landscape? A Connected Communities Conference for Early Career Researchers
On 08, Jan 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Changing the Future Research Landscape? A Connected Communities Conference for Early Career Researchers
University of East Anglia, Norwich, 22-23 March 2016
Call For Papers: ‘Re-Imagining Challenging History’
On 07, Jan 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
We invite contributions to the second Challenging History conference, to be hosted by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, 29-30 June 2016.
Birmingham City Council WW1 events
On 06, Jan 2016 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Birmingham City Council held two special First World War commemorative events last year.
Call for papers: Volunteers & Voters, the First World War & its Legacy
On 14, Dec 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Volunteers & Voters: The First World War and its Legacy
Saturday 12 November 2016
University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ
Organised by The Women’s History Network, Midlands Region
Call for papers: Home, Food & Family in WW1
On 08, Dec 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Home, Food and Family in WWI
Saturday 5 March, 2016
A conference organized by the Women’s History Network, Midlands Region and the Voices of War and Peace WWI Engagement Centre
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings,
Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Midlands B60 4JR
Borders and Beyond in the Middle East since 1914: Legacies, Changes, Continuities
On 01, Dec 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Call for Papers: Borders and Beyond in the Middle East since 1914: Legacies, Changes, Continuities
Venue: York St John University
Date : 17-18 June 2016
(associated social and cultural events on 16th and 19th June)
Last few places left! Whose War? Whose Memory? Teaching the First World War in International Perspective
On 19, Nov 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Thursday 19 November 5pm – 7.30pm
Muirhead 417, University of Birmingham
On now! Not all Jam and Jerusalem: the WI in the First and Second World Wars
On 19, Nov 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Not all Jam and Jerusalem: the WI in the First and Second World Wars
A series of events marking the centenary of the first English WI meeting in November 1915
At The Hive, Sawmill Walk, The Butts, Worcester, WR1 3PB
Rethinking the Nation
On 05, Nov 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
The University of Huddersfield and the Arts & Humanities Research Council invites you to ‘Rethink the Nation’ at Imperial War Museum North on Wednesday 25 November, registration at 6pm. We hope you’ll join us in exploring national diversity, conflict, power and change.
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“Lay down your Arms!” Bertha von Suttner and Anti-War Writing in German-Speaking Countries, 1889-1922
On 02, Nov 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
2015 Institute for German Studies Distinguished Lecture
by Professor Ritchie Robertson (University of Oxford)
“Lay down your Arms!” Bertha von Suttner and Anti-War Writing in German-Speaking Countries, 1889-1922
Tuesday 10 November 2015, 5 p.m
The First World War: Nursing programme announced
On 28, Oct 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
This year’s Women’s History Network Midlands Region Conference entitled ‘The First World War: Nursing’ will take place at the University of Worcester (City Campus) on Saturday, 21 November 2015, 10.30am – 4.00pm in CHG 009.
Being Young during WW1 conference programme announced
On 26, Oct 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Saturday 7 November 2015 – Manchester Metropolitan University
Please join us for this international conference to examine the effects of the First World War on children and young people, and its social and psychological legacies.
Black Soldiers in the First World War & The African Frontline 1914-1918
On 15, Oct 2015 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Event organised by Recognize Black Heritage & Culture
29 October 2015 13:00 – 16:30 Library of Birmingham
