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The Great War

In Britain, the Great War was the first to be documented and the material made widely available. Newspapers such as The War Illustrated covered the battlefronts at sea, on the ground, and in the air for the interested-but-detached to read over the breakfast table. Propaganda in a time of war. But personal involvement conveyed different experiences. With harrowing stories to tell of loss of innocence. The key to bringing this terrible period of history alive is to convey what it was like to be an ordinary person like you or me caught up in events. Here are some pieces I have written about my research sources and techniques, and my drive to get it right.

1918 programme for variety show for St Dunstan's front cover

Variety theatre: 1918 show in aid of St Dunstan’s

Golders Green Hippodrome variety programme 1914 page 1

Variety Theatre: Golders Green Hippodrome 1914

Ticket for WWI Centenary Commemoration in Harrogate Library 10/11/2018

WWI centenary commemorations

Footballer Bob Crompton. 1913

The sporting life

Red and navy saloon cars on green. Pastel by Ruth Wade

Libraries: Poplar’s palaces of learning

Beneath Foul Trade

Family photograph of young man in WW1 uniform. Ruth Wade collection

Behind The Last Post

Still from Wellcome film on shell-shock treatment in WW1

Shell-shock

1920's women. Mother reading to her children.

“It was as if every man you had ever danced with was dead.”

Poplar Street party for Peace Day 1919. BK Duncan

It was never to be the coming of peace

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