Rebuilding European Lives. 1914-1939
Rebuilding European Lives. The reconstitution of urban communities in interwar France and Belgium (1914-1939). Paper presented at the “Recreating historical cities after WWI” Conference, Kalisz (Poland), 16-17 April 2015 In July 1998, in Noyon, a medium-sized town in northern France, construction workers pulled down the decayed community hall and chopped down the acacias which had […]
Boundaries of patriotism. Geography and ethics of mobilization in WWI France.
The First World War at the Warwick Modern Records Centre
To mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, 100 documents from the Modern Records Centre’s archives have been digitised and made available online. From the soldier on the front line to the imprisoned conscientious objector, the woman worker to the wounded ex-serviceman, the sources provide an insight into the far-reaching […]