The job of a war artist probably seems, to many, a curious calling. Here’s why Paul Nash and I were both drawn to the front line.
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Articles sur World War I
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From serial killers to attacks on prostitutes and soldiers, not everyone back in Britain during the war was heroic.
In the 20th century, governments considered the “total abolition” of passports as an important goal and discussed the issue in several international conferences.
Many of HG Wells’s futuristic prophecies have come true, but the one on which his heart was most set – the establishment of a world state – remains unfulfilled.
A tool in place of your arm or a stereo for your leg? How our attitudes towards human enhancement have changed.
The centenary of the first world war is being memorialised around the world. But as it fades from living memory, our children’s education sits uneasily with the uncritical demands of commemoration.
Commemorations for young people sanctify the Great War, but it’s a conflict that needs to be questioned.
A hundred years ago today, the Battle of the Somme began. This conflict, in which a million men died in order to move the front lines about six miles, spelled the end of courage as a cornerstone of masculine identity.
There was no need to censor Allied war reporters – they were required by law to follow the official line.
100 years after the Battle of the Somme, we are only now starting to unravel the mystery causes of shell shock.
After the Somme the British army was supplied with vastly more firepower than before. This would decide the course of this war.
Both sides claimed victory after the German and British fleets met off the coast of Denmark, 100 years ago.
Calculus helped determined the outcome of World War I’s biggest naval battle, 100 years ago.
Over the years the words Sykes-Picot have taken on two meanings – one significant, the other less so.
The Sykes-Picot Agreement delivered the spoils of war to Britain and France, and deferred the dreams of Arab nationalists.
Eurovision wants to protect its ‘non-political nature’. But can it?
For 100 years, the Easter Rising has occupied center stage in the memory making of republican Ireland. But the role of Irish soldiers in World War I had been all but forgotten – until now.
Irish participation in World War I has been surrounded by a form of “collective amnesia” – largely because of the part the war played in the Easter Rising.
From crossing cultural barriers with a cake, to starvation used as a brutal tool of war, Australian soldiers’ letters and diaries reveal an urgently important relationship with what they ate.
When Australians went to the Western Front, language failed them. So they invented slanguage: a mix of slang, French words and creative swearing that, among other things, gave us the word “Aussie”.
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Professor, University of Leeds
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Principal Lecturer in History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, Design History and Theory, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Director, Australian National Dictionary Centre, Australian National University
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Research Professor in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Professor of Twentieth Century History, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor in Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in English, The Open University
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Reader in Modern History, Brunel University London
