Aussie~mobs/Flickr April 24, 2024 How Anzac deaths changed the way we mourn to this day Jen Roberts, University of Wollongong With so many people grieving, the notion of doing so in public was seen as tasteless and vulgar. Funerals became smaller, people put on a brave face in public and fewer people wore black.
Ellis Humphrey Evans, known by his bardic name Hedd Wyn, was killed on the first day of the battle of Passchendaele. Chronicle/Alamy January 11, 2024 Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war Alan Llwyd, Swansea University Bard Hedd Wyn was killed in action in France in 1917.
William Kentridge. Goodman Gallery November 5, 2018 William Kentridge: the barbarity of the ‘Great War’ told through an African lens Michael Godby, University of Cape Town For William Kentridge, searching and erasure serves as a model for understanding our place in the world.
British soldiers on the frontline. Shutterstock February 19, 2018 The forgotten story of how horrors of the Great War haunted Britain’s home front Edward Cheetham, Nottingham Trent University As tens of thousands of injured soldiers filled the UK’s overwhelmed hospitals, the scale of World War I became all too apparent.