Delighted to announce that I have a new article out, responding to the wonder @wherrypilgrim.bsky.social about teaching poetry of the First World War :) thank you to Ann-Marie Einhaus, Susan Grayzel, and Catriona Pennel for their wonderful editing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Verse-Atility of First World War Poetry in the Classroom – A Reflection and Response

Once one moves beyond the canonical authors and texts, the diversity of First World War poetry makes it an ideal choice of source material for anyone wishing to teach a broad range of perspectives ...

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Happy to announce that I have a new article published on #FWW #poetry. Thanks to @juliarsct.bsky.social for her insightful response, as well as to Ann-Marie Einhaus, Susan Grayzel, and Catriona Pennel for editing the issue. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Verse-Atility of First World War Poetry in the Classroom – A Reflection and Response

Once one moves beyond the canonical authors and texts, the diversity of First World War poetry makes it an ideal choice of source material for anyone wishing to teach a broad range of perspectives ...

tandfonline.com

New bibliography entry: The Jewish National Councils 1917-1919: A Selection of Documents ift.tt/ncmEbH5 #FWWstudies

From our archive on #WorldPoetryDay “Gather up the fumes of frankincense”: submitted to us by @wherrypilgrim.bsky.social about poetic remembrances of the First World War in #Mesopotamia #poetry #WW1 #warpoets bit.ly/2KKaz5S

War Poets - Away from the Western Front

< Topics War poets The vivid experience of fighting in the First World War led many men and women…

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According to my photos app, 18 years ago today I was on the Somme visiting the grave of the American nurse who tended to my mortally wounded Great Uncle Jack. He died of wounds sustained at Langemarck, she died of liver failure, possibly caused by breathing gas soaked into her patients’ uniforms.

A letter home shares some news at the front. Cigarettes. Sausages. And death. In a letter home to a friend. 18thbattalioncef.blog/2026/02/14/a...

“A Few Lines”

Company Sergeant Major Richardson wrote a letter home on 12 January 1916 from the relative safety of La Clytte[i], Belgium (now known as De Klijte), which was a camp used as a Divisional Reserve fo…

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To the Unknown British Soldier in France https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-orpen/to-the-unknown-british-soldier-in-france-1921

Registration is open!! Do come to PEI this June! lmmontgomery.ca/upcoming-con...

It's been too long -- but new post is up "Fierce Fighting in a Wood." behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2026/03/fier... #FWW #poetry #WW1

Fierce Fighting in a Wood

Percy Smith, Solitude High Wood, Sanctuary Wood, Delville Wood, Polygon Wood, Belleau Wood – these are some of the best-known sites of the f...

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110 years ago, my great-grandfather sent this home. “It’s cold. And when we are in the trenches, outside at night, it will be even worse. We leave for 8 days. On our right, at Verdun, it has been non-stop. I’m sending you a photo 👇 it will be a memory for me after the war. #WW1 #OnThisDay

@wherrypilgrim.bsky.social Poetry by an 18th Battalion CEF soldier to a VAD nurse.

Mairi Chisholm born #OTD 26 February 1896, famous with Elsie Knocker for treating wounded in the front line 1914-18, seen in 1913, age 17, London to Exeter motorcycle run. They met before the war during motorcycle events & went to the front as ambulance drivers. Source: Hulton via Ancestry.co.uk

The remarkable story of the YMCA’s Jewish service in the First World War, now on my Substack:

The Jewish YMCA

Dr Kathryn White follows the life and work of Harold Boas from Perth to London

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Chicago Tribune #OTD Feb 23 "show the various devices used for overcoming barbed wire entanglements ... The allies are using a small cannon for firing a drag anchor hitched to a cable, over the wire entanglements. This is then dragged through the entanglements by a windlass. bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Le Petit Journal Jun 27 1915 publishes illustration of herd of wild oxen launched against Austrian barbed wire at Mount Corada Daily Telegraph Jun 7 1915 Italians employ "savage bulls" at Monte Corada Jun 5 1915 Rock Island Argus 50 Cattle clear barbed wire at "Mont Cordo" bsky.app/profile/this...

Remember, even if someone is technically correct when they assert that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder “won’t fix you”, they are forgetting one simple, unassailable truth: It certainly can’t hurt.

War memorial plaque. St. Nicolas Church, Kings Norton, Birmingham, West Midlands. Commemorating the employees of the Kings Norton Metal Works who gave their lives in the Great War. #LestWeForget

My new book "For King and Country: The Role of Patriotism in Mobilisation in the First World War" is available now @penandswordbooks.bsky.social 'A fascinating read' Professor Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social author of Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness

For King and Country

This book is an original interpretation of domestic patriotism and the limitations of wartime mobilisation in rural and urban communities of the British Home Front&#8230;

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Valentine's Day 💕 How many soldiers died & left a family bereaved on that day? 626 French soldiers died on 14th Feb from 1915-1918 338 - 1915 134 - 1916 90 - 1917 64 - 1918 How many 315e? 2 Below 🧵on one, warning he was no sweetheart Eugene Albaud: Fusillé pour l'exemple

A charming love poem from the First World War: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-ki... #ValentinesDay #FWW #poetry #lovepoem

A Kiss

1916 postcard Known as the “Canadian Rupert Brooke,” Bernard Freeman Trotter was a twenty-five-year-old graduate student at the Univers...

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Remembering Sarojini Naidu, a "lyrical voice of women's empowerment," political activist, and poet, born 13 Feb 1879. Here is her #FWW poem "The Gift of India": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-... #poetry

#CFP for 'The Military Medicine and Welfare of the First World War: preparations, evolutions and legacies' symposium, 10-11 April 2025. Submit your abstracts and bios to the organisers at militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com by Friday 14 February 2025. militarywelfarehistory.com/other-events/.

Other Events

As well as running its own conferences every couple of years, the MWHN also encourages and supports its Members in coming together to participate in panels at other academic events around the world…

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30% off INTERNATIONAL POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (40% off ebook) on Bloomsbury's website. Sale ends Sunday, Feb. 16. www.bloomsbury.com/us/internati...

International Poetry of the First World War

Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together p…

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Nothing says "I love you" quite like poetry does! Sign up for our newsletter by tonight, Monday, February 10 for the opportunity to send romantic verse to someone special! t.co/tzm6Hp2Q7Z

I absolutely love and empathise with this medieval jug, spotted in Winchester City #Museum

Todya's badge - a rare one for the Better 'Ole soldiers social club in Paris. The badge date must be post-1915 as the famous Bairnsfather "Better 'Ole" cartoon wasn't published till late 1915. In all the years I have been collecting, this is the only example of this I have seen #WW1 #FWW

War memorial tablet. St. Mary's Church, Kings Worthy, Hampshire. Commemorating four sons of the Reverend Francis Henry Baring, who all fell in the Great War. Ernest and Charles (Australian Imperial Force), Cecil (Royal West Kent Regiment) and Reginald (Royal Air Force). #LestWeForget

I realize that pub crawls are quite popular, but I truly believe that the concept of a library crawl is long overdue.

"Now must we go again back to the world Full of grey ghosts and voices of men dying..." -May Wedderburn Cannan, after the death of her fiancé Major Bevil Quiller Couch, who survived some of the worst battles of #WW1, only to die of influenza 6 Feb. 1919. behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/10/wome...

Women Demobilized

May Wedderburn Cannan In her autobiography Grey Ghosts and Voices , May Wedderburn Cannan writes, The Census for 1921 had found there was in...

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Sarah Hart's sister Dorothy Maud, a munitions worker, died at work but was not entitled to a CWGC headstone.So her parents added her name to her sister's memorial, who was. This must be a very rare, if not unique example, of the words "munitions worker" inscribed on a CWGC grave. #womenshistory #WW1

2.2.16 (back from leave) "A day has passed, I am waiting for my company this evening, it will perhaps change my ideas a little. This morning I put all my stuff back in order, I sewed and brushed which kept me busy a little, but we are not going to be warm in our barn, because today it is very cold"