WW1 Projects
Workshop: WW1 project advice sessions
On 16, Nov 2017 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
WW1 project advice sessions
Workshops: Beyond the Battlefields
On 12, Oct 2017 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Are you interested in photography, history, debate, archives, museums, art galleries?
Workshop: WW1 project advice session
On 14, Sep 2017 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
WW1 project advice sessions
Workshops: WW1 project advice sessions
On 30, Jun 2017 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
WW1 project advice sessions
Workshops: WW1 project advice sessions
On 06, May 2017 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
WW1 project advice sessions
Workshops: WW1 project advice sessions
On 06, Apr 2017 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
WW1 project advice sessions
Workshops: WW1 project advice sessions
On 09, Mar 2017 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
WW1 project advice sessions
Workshops: WW1 project advice sessions
On 10, Jan 2017 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
WW1 project advice sessions
Research Bursary: Impact of First World War on medicine and healthcare
On 08, Oct 2016 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Research Bursary: Impact of First World War on medicine and healthcare
Researcher to be appointed in October 2016. Project to be complete by September 2017.
This is a paid research opportunity.
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Project: Somme Observed Community Knitters
On 22, Jul 2016 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Dr Charlotte Methuen from the University of Glasgow and the Voices Centre recently helped support a community group called the Somme Observed Community Knitters, whose project received funding from the HLF.
Project: Birmingham Children at War
On 08, Jul 2016 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Heritage Lottery Fund awards £10k to Friends of Birmingham Archives and Heritage to mark First World War Centenary
War & Conscience: Marking the Centenary of Conscription
On 03, Mar 2016 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
![Friends Ambulance Unit [Cadbury Library, University of Birmingham]](https://www.voicesofwarandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/uob-friends-amb-unit.jpg)
A public history event held at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on 27 February 2016, organised by ‘Quakers & the First World War: Lives & Legacies’; a collaborative project between Central England Quakers and the University of Birmingham’s School of Education.
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Free event: War & Conscience, 1914/18: Marking the Centenary of Conscription
On 03, Feb 2016 | In Events, WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
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
These Dangerous Women
On 11, Dec 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
These Dangerous Women was an HLF funded project about the women who tried to stop World War 1.
An Unknown & Untold Story – The Muslim Contribution to the First World War
On 23, Nov 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
The website for “An Unknown & Untold Story – The Muslim Contribution to The First World War”, a new project to raise public awareness during the First World War Centenary of the 400,000 Muslims from undivided India who served in the British Army in The First World War, was launched last week.
Churches Together in England seeking project manager
On 30, Oct 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Churches Together in England are looking for an energetic team-player who has excellent research and people management skills and a good track record of delivering time-specific research projects to lead the research and manage volunteers to deliver our Midlands-based project:
‘They Also Served – The Contributions of African and Caribbean Servicewomen and Servicemen to World War One (WW1)’
World War One in the Vale HOME FRONT REMEMBERED
On 29, Oct 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Pershore community groups celebrate winning £20,000 from Heritage Lottery Fund and launch new First World War Home Front history project with cake and coffee.
Call for Volunteers: The Centre of Curious Sonic Investigation
On 04, Sep 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
The Centre of Curious Sonic Investigation is working with Voices of War & Peace WW1 Engagement Centre and Birmingham City University’s Margaret Street School of Art on Absconditi Viscus, a phonic residency by Justin Wiggan.
Somali Great War project announced
On 06, Aug 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
The first Somali community in Britain settled here as a result of the Great War. We have been awarded a grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund that will allow us to explain how this happened.
New National Lottery investment in the First World War Centenary
On 08, Jul 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Culture Secretary announces £4m for local communities to explore the impact of the war as the nation marks one year until the centenary of the Battle of the Somme
Research Opportunity
On 27, Jan 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Research Bursary Opportunity
The first female House Surgeon at Worcester General Infirmary
Women’s Work: Stories of the Factory Workers
On 16, Jan 2015 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
Women and Theatre are being funded to carry out a heritage research project in the Small Heath community between January and March 2015.
Video Captures Leintwardine HLF Project
On 02, Dec 2014 | In Events, Exhibitions, WW1 Projects | By Voices
Well over a thousand people attended the Leintwardine exhibition and events over four days in October. This video features the Shropshire Radio interview with Nerissa Wilson of the Leintwardine History Society, who describes visitors’ reactions to the exhibition.
Project update: Shot at Dawn
On 21, Aug 2014 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
In May the Central Youth Theatre made an appeal for information for their project, Lest We Forget-Shot at Dawn, exploring the stories of executed First World War soldiers from the West Midlands.
New project: The role and experience of soldiers of colour in the First World War
On 18, Aug 2014 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
This new project by Footballfineart, ‘The role and experience of soldiers of colour in the First World War’ (funded by the HLF’s ‘Understanding the First World War‘ programme), aims to focus upon the contribution made to the First World War by manpower from Britain’s colonies.
Letter to an Unknown Soldier
On 20, Jun 2014 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
LETTER TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Summer 2014
If you were to able to speak to the unknown soldier now, a man who served and was killed during World War One…
With all we’ve learned since 1914, with all your own experience of life and death to hand, what would you say?
Commemorating the Centenary of the Great War
On 01, Apr 2014 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
During our launch event for Voices of War and Peace we showed a film called ‘Commemorating the Centenary of the Great War’, the result of an AHRC-funded collaborative network one of the Centre Co-Investigators, Dr Joanne Sayner, was recently involved with.
Shot at Dawn project appeal
On 25, Mar 2014 | In WW1 Projects | By Nicola Gauld
A particularly emotional part of the First World War, and one that can still cause fierce debate, is the execution of soldiers for offences such as “cowardice” and desertion. Lest We Forget – Shot at Dawn is a project run by the Central Youth Theatre of Wolverhampton that explores the stories of some of these soldiers.
