Oh! What a lovely podcast

What was the real story behind the BBC series Dope Girls? In this episode of Oh What a Lovely Podcast, we dive into the world of Soho's underground nightlife in the 1920s, as seen in the BBC's new drama Dope Girls. The series takes inspiration from Marek Kohn's book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground and brings to life the turbulent years after the First World War, when jazz clubs, crime, and vice flourished in London. Joining us to separate fact from fiction is Professor Matthew Houlbrook, a leading historian of 20th-century Britain. We explore the real figures and stories behind Dope Girls, the shifting social landscape of post-war Britain, and how the show reflects the era's struggles with gender, crime, and morality. References: Marek Kohn, Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground  Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 Downton Abbey Robert Graves & Alan Hodge, The Long Weekend: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939 Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

What happens when a late-twentieth-century detective novelist develops strong opinions about the First World War?   This month Angus, Jessica and Chris discuss Reginald Hill's The Wood Beyond (1995) and the short story 'Silent Night' from the collection A Candle for Christmas (2023). Along the way, we consider the significance of the genealogy boom to the historiography of the war, the politics of the Shot at Dawn campaign and the tradition of novelists inventing fictional regiments.   References: Midsummer Murders The Sweeney Who Do You Think You Are? Not Forgotten (2005-2009) Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991) Sebastian Japrisot, A Very Long Engagement (1994) Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong (1993) Blackadder Goes Forth (1983) The Monocled Mutineer (1986) Alan Clark, The Donkeys (1961) Reginald Hill, Arms and the Women (1999) ________. On Beulah Height (1998) ________. Recalled to Life (1992) ________. Exit Lines (1984) Helen McCartney, Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War (2005) Peter Simkins, Kitchener's Army: The Raising of the New Armies, 1914-1916 (2007) Arthur Marwick, The Deluge: British Society and the First World War (1965) Susan Grayzel, Women's Identities at War (1999) Tammy Proctor, Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War (2003) Alison Fell, Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War (2018) Oh! What a lovely podcast, Black Hand Gang Oh! What a lovely podcast, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

What happens when you combine the First World War with a 1970s cult sci-fi classic?   This month we watched 'Assignment 2' from the television series Sapphire & Steel which features a ghostly First World War soldier haunting an abandoned railway station. Along the way we discuss differing approaches to sacrifice, the idea of an 'unjust' death, and where the show sits on our ongoing 'creepy' list.

What do you do when a student brings you a collection of family papers in a Harrods tin?  This month, Chris, Angus and Jessica speak to Professor Ian Isherwood about his new book, The Battalion: Citizen Soldiers at War on the Western Front. Along the way, we discuss developing digital humanities projects, the involvement of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis in rambling and the proliferation of bad war poetry. References: Ian Isherwood, The Battalion: Citizen Soldiers at War on the Western Front Ian Isherwood, The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs Michael Roper, Afterlives of War: A Descendant's History

How do you walk people through First World War landscapes?   This month we welcome back Prof Mark Connelly to discuss his new walking tours endeavour Connelly Contours. Along the way we discuss war memorials in the London landscape, the evolution of remembrance, and if bad weather provides important context.

How do you teach the FIrst World War? This month we're joined by Dr Ann-Marie Einhaus and Prof Catriona Pennell to reflect on their 'First World War in the Classroom' project that explored the ways the conflict was taught in schools. Along the way we discuss the role of battlefield tours, the time constraints faced by teachers, and whether the centenary has changed the way the war is taught' References:The First World War in the Classroom: Teaching and the Construction of Cultural Memory  

Can you turn the First World War into sketch comedy? This month we talk to the public historian, podcaster, and author Greg Jenner. Along the way we discuss his work on the Horrible Histories television show, the difficulties of being funny about twentieth-century history, the different ways in which the public now consume history, and why Jessica might be considering changing career to become a comedian.   References:Horrible Histories (2008-Present) You're Dead to Me (2020-Present)

What happens when the First World War meets pulp science fiction?   This month we read the novel: Black Hand Gang (the first in the No Man's World trilogy) by Pat Kelleher. The book depicts a fictional battalion of British soldiers who are transported from the Somme to a strange alien world. As a result we discuss supernatural horror and the war, the use of slang, and whether this book was written explicitly for Chris.   References: Pat Kelleher, Black Hand Gang (No Man's Word Book 1) (2011) Daniel Dafoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) Dennis Wheatley, The Devil Rides Out (1934) Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991) Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (1989 - present) Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven (2022) Reginal Hill, The Wood Beyond (1995) Blackadder Goes Forth, BBC TV (1989) Pat Mills, Charley's War (1979-1986) Brian Lumbley HG Wells HP Lovecraft

What happens when fantasy meets the First World War?   This month, we read 'The Warm Hands of Ghosts' by Katherine Arden, a novel which follows Canadian nurse Laura Iven as she searches for her brother behind the lines in the militarised area known as the ‘Forbidden Zone'. The plot hinges around a mysterious character called Faland, who runs an elusive hotel with no set location that men find to drink and relax   In the discussion, we consider the fictional use of historical characters, whether the war began in 1917, and Chris' new scale for measuring war-related novels. Links: Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (1989-present) Alice Winn, In Memoriam (2023) Robert Graves, Good-bye To All That (1929) Mary Borden, The Forbidden Zone (1929) L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside (1921) The Battle of the Somme (1916) R. H. Mottram, The Spanish Farm Trilogy (1930) Lesley Glaister, Blasted Things (2020) Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) Owen Davies, A Supernatural War (2018) Lucifer (2016-2021) Pierre Purseigle, Mobilisation, Sacrifice et Citoyenneté. Des communautés locales face à la guerre moderne. Angleterre – France, 1900-1918 (2013) Women at War (2022) Rachel Duffett, The Stomach for Fighting (2012) Kate Macdonald, The first cyborg and First World War bodies as anti-war propaganda (2016) Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Baron (1995) Pat Kelleher, Black Hand Gang (2010) Nicci French  

This month Angus, Chris and Jessica discuss Jessica's professorial inaugural lecture, 'No (Wo)man's Land: writing history at the intersection of gender and First World War studies'.   Along the way we consider the problem of masculinity as an empty analytic category, the importance of the centenary for the study of the First World War and what Jessica might have done if she hadn't gone in to academia. There is also a sneak preview of exciting forthcoming and future projects from all three of us.     References: Jessica Meyer, ‘On Being a Woman and a War Historian' Jessica Meyer, Men of War: Masculinity and the First World War in Britain (2008) Jessica Meyer, Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War (2019) Kate Adie, Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One (2013) Kate Adie, ‘Don't write first world war women out of history', The Guardian, 23rd September, 2013 Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August (1962) Deborah Thom, Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War 1 (1998) Tammy Proctor, Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War (2003) Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers (2001) Adrian Gregory, The Last Great War (2008) Jeremy Paxman, Great Britain's Great War (2013) John Tosh and Michael Roper (eds), Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain Since 1800 (1991) Denise Riley, Am I That Name?: Feminism and the Category of ‘Women' (1988) R.W. Connell, Masculinities (1993) Joan W. Scott, ‘Rewriting History' in Margaret R. Higonnet, et. al. (eds), Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (2008) Branden Little (ed), Humanitarianism in the Era of the First World War, special issue ofFirst World War Studies, vol.5, no.1 (2014) Heather Perry, Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in World War I Germany (2014) Michele Moyd, Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa (2014) Susan Grayzel, Women and the First World War (2002) Alexander Mayhew, Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness and Morale on the Western Front (2024) Alice Winn, In Memoriam (2023), https://ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/in-memoriam/ Sam Mendes, 1917 (2019), https://ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/sam-mendes-1917-and-the-landscape/ Peter Mandler, ‘The Problem with Cultural History', Cultural and Social History, vol.1, no.1 (2004), 94-117. Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) Robert Graves, Good-bye to All That (1929) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) Rosa Maria Bracco, Merchants of Hope: British Middlebrow Writers and the First World War (1993) Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991) Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong (1993) Alison Light, Forever England: Femininity, Literature, and Conservatism Between the Wars (1991) Jessica Meyer, Chris Kempshall and Markus Pöhlman, ‘Life and Death of Soldiers', 1914-18 Online, 7th February, 2022 Chris Kempshall, The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire (2024) Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts (2024)

What happens when three historians watch a key play about the First World War? This month we took a field trip to see Oh What A Lovely War at the Leeds Playhouse. As a result we discuss the nature of the performance, the changing image of Douglas Haig, and wonder whether audiences were supposed to sing along. ReferencesAlan Clark, The Donkeys (1961) John McCrae, In Flanders Field (1915) William Phillpot, Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century (2010) Dan Todman, The Great War in Myth and Memory (2005) Oh! What a lovely war (Original London Cast) (1983)  

What opportunities did the First World War provide for cultural tourism? This month Angus, Jessica and Chris speak to Allison Bennett, winner of the 2023 Gail Braybon Award for her work on war-time cross-cultural sexual encounters during the First World War. Along the way we discuss #MeToo, and the post-war legacies of these encounters for families, and the popularity of the Pyramids and camels as a tourist attractions. References:GallipoliPeter Stanley, Bad CharactersAlexia Moncrieff, Expertise, Authority and ControlAlan Beyerchen and Emre Spencer (eds.), Expeditionary Forces in the First World WarTomas Irish, Universities at WarRudyard Kipling, KimThe Arabian Nights

What happens when you turn a First World War medical process into a computer game?   This month Angus, Jessica, and Chris take control of wartime medicine in the game War Hospital. Along the way we discuss the importance of evacuation, difficult ethical decisions, and why Chris' conscience is completely clear. If you listen to this episode and share it on social media you can also win a free copy of the game!   References: War Hospital (2024) An Unequal Burden, Jessica Meyer (2019) Regeneration, Pat Barker (1991)

What happens when you turn the French experience of the war into a cooperative game? This month Jessica, Angus, and Chris played The Grizzled a cooperative game focused on guiding a group of French soldiers through the war. Along the way they discuss the morale boosting merits of different drinks, the difference between physical and mental traumas, and whether they are now obliged to design their own British version. References:The Grizzled Meyer, Jessica, Kempshall, Chris, Pöhlmann, Markus: Life and Death of Soldiers , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War Kempshall, Chris: Le Poilu , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War Meyer, Jessica, Kempshall, Chris, Pöhlmann, Markus: Life and Death of Soldiers , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War Smith, Leonard V. Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During World War I (2003) Tardi, Jaques Goddam this war! (2013) War Hospital  

What happens when you set a telenovela in First World War France?  This month Chris, Angus and Jessica review the Netflix limited series Les Combattantes (Women at War). Along the way, we discuss untranslatable words, the relationship between war atrocities and propaganda, recreational drug use, and the excellent communication links of a small-town convent. References: Women at war, (2022)The Bonfire of Destiny, (2019)RH Mottram, The Spanish Farm,  (1924)John Horne and Alan Kramer, German Atrocities, 1914: A history of denial (2001) Lukasz Kamienski, Shooting Up: A history of drugs in warfare (2016) 

What should we take from a First World War documentary?   Following our adventure to Canada for the International Society for First World War Studies conference, we welcome Prof Robert Burgoyne to discuss his keynote paper on the Peter Jackson film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018).   Along the way, we explore the ways in which war films can quote from each other, differences in structure to the film 1917, and the importance of audience expectations when creating a historical piece.   ReferencesRobert Burgoyne, The New American War Film (2023) Santanu Das, ‘Colors of the Past: Archive, Art and Amnesia in a Digital Era', American Historical Review 124.5 (2019) Otto Dix, Der Krieg (1924) Adrian Gregory, The Silence of Memory (1994) Samuel Hynes, A War Imagined (1991) Peter Jackson, They Shall Not Grow Old (1918)Sam Mendes, 1917 (1919) Bal Mieke, Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History (1999) Lewis Millstone, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Stephen Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan (1930) Allison Tanine, ‘Digital Film Restoration and the Politics of Whiteness in Peter Jackson's, They Shall Not Grow Old', Quarterly Review of Film and Video 39.5 (2021) Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (1918)

How did the First World War inspire the horror genre?   This month we welcome W. Scott Poole (Charleston) to discuss his 2018 book Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror. Along the way we discuss the American experience of war, the importance of J'Accuse, and the political affiliations of 20th century zombies.

What happens when you send Indiana Jones into the First World War? In this episode, we are joined by Thomas Riddle. Thomas runs the website indyintheclassroom.com (which aims to provide teachers with resources to integrate everyone's favourite archaeologist into the classroom) to discuss the 1990s TV series ‘The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'. Along the way we discuss the show as an educational tool, the many historical figures that appear in the series, and the importance of learning foreign languages! References:The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1996) Samuel Hynes, The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War (Allen Lane, 1997)

How do you create a biopic of one of the most famous First World War poets?   This month we're joined by Dr Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes) to discuss the 2021 film Benediction about the life of Siegfried Sassoon.   Along the way we explore the long shadow of Regeneration, soldiers in drag, and the brilliance of Edith Sitwell. We also get very excited by a surprise cameo from the star of a previous episode!   References: Alice Winn, In Memoriam (2023) Benediction' is a shattering biopic of the English war poet Siegfried Sassoon, LA Times  Benediction review – Terence Davies' piercingly sad Siegfried Sassoon drama, The Guardian Brian Bond, The Unquiet Western Front (2008) Edith Sitwell, Wheels (1919) Jane Potter, Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen (2023) Regeneration, dir by Gillies MacKinnon (1997) Siegfried Sasson, The Complete Memoirs of George They Shall Not Grow Old, dir by Peter Jackson (2018)

What do you get when you cross Journey's End with Brideshead Revisited? This month Angus, Chris and Jessica review Alice Winn's best-selling new novel, In Memoriam. The book follows  Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood from public school and through the war. Half-German, Gaunt's mother asks him to enlist in the British army to protect the family from anti-German attacks. He signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings. But Ellwood and their classmates soon follow him into the horrors of trenches. Though Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one another, their friends are dying in front of them, and at any moment they could be next. Along the way we discuss class, conscription and the difficulties of describing the boredom and violence of war in popular fiction. References1917 (2019) A.J. Evans, The Escaping ClubAlfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H (1850) Alice Winn, In Memoriam (2023) All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) Charles Carrington, A Subaltern's WarErnst Younger, Storm of Steel (1929) Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited Ian Isherwood, Remembering the Great War (2017) In Memoriam by Alice Winn review, The Guardian (12 March 2023) Justin Fantauzzo and Robert L. Nelson (2016), 'A Most Unmanly War: British Military Masculinity in Macedonia, Mesopotamia and Palestine, 1914-18', Gender & History 28(3): 587-603, DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12240 Second Lieutenant Kenneth Macardle Heartstopper (2022) Max Plowman, A Subaltern on the SommePat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy (1991-1995) Peaky Blinders RC Sherriff, Journey's End (1928) Rupert Brookes, Goodbye to All That (1929) Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1929) Star Trek Stephen Fry, The LiarThe Gallows Pole (2023) The Great Escape (1963) The History Boys (2006) This is Spinal Tap (1984) This Is the Week That Was Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy (1991-1995)

What First World War cultural representations would you like to see adapted for the screen?  This month Angus, Chris and Jessica discuss their dream adaptations of novels, short stories and computer games for the big or small screen. Along the way, we explore what makes for a good film versus a good television series, we consider how to overcome the challenge of the Bechdel test in filming the war, and Chris introduces us to the Bertie Wooster/animé scale of realism.   References:1917, dir. by Sam Mendes (1919) AG Macdonell, England, Their England (1933) Akira, dir. by Katsuhiro Otomo (1988) All Quiet on the Western Front, dir. by Edward Berger (2022) Capt WE Johns, Biggles Goes North (1939) Capt WE Johns, Biggles Goes East (1935) Emma Hanna, The Great War on the small screen (2009) Ford Madox Ford, Parades End (1924) Frederic Manning, Her Privates We (1930) Lupin, Netflix (2021) Peter Berresford Ellis et al, Biggles!: Life of Captain WE Johns (1993) Ralph Hale Mottram, The Spanish Farm Trilogy (1930) RC Sherriff, Journey's End (1928) Sapper, Bulldog Drummond (1920) The Wind Rises, dir. by Hayao Miyazaki (2013 The Monocled Mutineer, dir. by Jim O'Brien (1986) Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Ubisoft (2014)   

By popular demand! This month Chris, Angus and Jessica discuss productions of R.C. Sherriff'sJourney's End, including the original play and the 1930 and 2017 film versions. Along the way, we consider the importance of James Whale, whether the French changed their clocks during the war and the definition of an anti-war play, while Chris makes a bid for the over-arching significance of moustaches to the history of the war. References RC Sherriff, Journey's End (1928) Emily Curtis Walters, Between Entertainment and Elegy: The unexpected success of RC Sherriff's “Journey's End”', Journal of British Studies 55.2 James Whale, Journey's End (1930) James Whale, Frankenstein (1931) James Whale, The Road Back (1937) James Curtis, James Whale: A new world of Gods and Monsters (2003) Lewis Millstone, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 N Enstaff, Journey's End: York Notes for GCSE (2006) Rosa Maria Bracco, Merchants of Hope: British Middlebrow Writers and the First World War, 1919-1939 (Berg, 1993) Saul Dibb, Journey's End (2017) Scott Poole, Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror (2018)  

What happens when Peaky Blinders meets Ballet Rambert? This month Chris finds out about Jessica and Angus's trip to see Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, otherwise known as Peaky Blinders: The Ballet. Along the way we discuss the narrative structure of ballet, the industrialisation of the body in wartime and whether we are still living in the era of the First World War. ReferencesCabaret (1966) Metropolis (1927/1984) Les Miserables (1985) Abel Gance, J'Accuse (1919) Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) Robert Gerwarth and John Horne (eds.), War in Peace: Paramilitarism in Europe after the Great War, 1917-1923 (2011) Rambert Dance in Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby Rehearsal Video New dance theatre version of Peaky Blinders by creator Steven Knight Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight interview on Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby 'Peaky Blinders' writer Steven Knight on the cult of the show and season 6

How do you stage an exhibition on POWs at a museum?   This month we're joined by Lora Vogt from the National WW1 Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, to discuss their new exhibition: 'Captured'. Along the way, we talk about how POWs have been obscured from modern memory, the benefits of online content, and how to make someone drive five days across America.

What happens when you convert a seminal First World War novel into a big budget film? This month Angus, Jessica, and Chris discuss the 2022 Netflix version of All Quiet on the Western Front. Along the way they debate the importance of timeline changes, the film's use of violence, and pitch a few alternative films to any listeners from Hollywood. ReferencesLewis Millstone, All Quiet on the Wester Front (1930) Delbert Mann, All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) Abel Gance, J'accuse (1919) Saul Dibb, Journey's End (2017) 37 Days (2014) Sam Mendes, 1917 (1919) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) Frederic Manning, Her Privates We (1929) rottentomatoes.com, All Quiet on the Western Front 

What happened when people wanted to visit the battlefields of the First World War? This month we're rejoined by Prof Mark Connelly (University of Kent) to discuss his new book Postcards from the Western Front: Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War. Along the way we discuss ownership of the battlefields, issues of infrastructure for tourists, and what happens if your mum visits you in the trenches.

How do you commemorate the First World War in the age of social media?   This month we take a look at the @giantpoppywatch twitter account and discuss the various ways people seem to commemorate the war. Along the way we discuss armistice balls, yarn bombing, and which muppet is the most respectful. 

This month Jessica, Angus and Chris discuss John Buchan's 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. Along the way they discuss the importance of the Scottish countryside, the deviousness of espionage, and why you should never get in a car with Richard Hanney.   WARNING: This episode contains references to racist language and ideas from the early 20th century.   References: John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) John Buchan, Greenmantle (1916) John Buchan, Mr Standfast (1919) Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps (1935) Ralph Thomas, The 39 Steps (1959) Don Sharp, The 39 Steps (1978) James Hawes, The 39 Steps (2008) Orson Welles, The 39 Steps (1938) Ben Schott, Jeeves and the King of Clubs (2018) Sapper, Bulldog Drummond (1920)

How do you portray the most famous flying ace of the First World War? This month we're joined by Prof Ingrid Sharp (Leeds) to discuss Baron Manfred von Richtofen also known as 'The Red Baron'. Along the way we examine the ways his myth evolved during the war, the ways he was appropriated by the Nazis, and the threat he posed to Snoopy. If you would like to join Chris for the launch of his new book The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy, the event is on August 13, 2022 at 11AM PST / 1PM CST / 7PM BST. You can find the registration details here. ReferencesThe Red Baron (2008) Dresden (2006) Valkyrie (2008) Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Revenge of the Red Baron (1994) Joyeux Noel (2005) Red Baron (1990 video game) John Buchan, Mr Standfast (1919) WE Johns, Biggles Chris Kempsall, The History and Politics of Star Wars (2022) Manfred von Richthofen, Der rote Kampfflieger (1917) Baroness Kunigunde von Richthofen, Mein Kriegstagebuch (1937) Charles Schulz, Snoopy vs the Red Baron  

What happens if you combine the First World War with an action-adventure film?   This month we watch the 2021 film The King's Man and discuss its portrayal of an alternative vision of the war. Along the way we explore John Buchan novels, the absence of key historical events, and wonder about whatever happened to Wilfred Owen.   References: Guardian review Indiewire review   John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) John Buchan, Greenmantle (1916) John Buchan, Mr Standfast (1919) John Buchan, The Three Hostages (1924)   Alfred Hitchcock, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935) Patrick Barlow, The Thirty-Nine Steps (2005) James Hawes, The Thirty-Nine Steps (2008)   'Sapper' [H. C. McNeil], Bulldog Drummond (1920)   Arthur Conan Doyle, The Final Problem (1893)   37 Days (2014), OWALP episode 16    Blackadder, 'Goodbyeee' (1989)   James Joll, The Origins of the First World War (1984)   Wilfred Owen, 'Dulce et Decorum Est' (first published 1920)   Abel Gance, J'accuse (1919)   Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)   Lewis Millstone, All Quiet on the Western Front (1931)   Otto Dix, Der Krieg (1924)   Sam Mendes, 1917 (2019), OWALP episode 14    Jessica Meyer, 'Peaky Blinders and the Ubiquity of Poetry', 30/10/2013   Ben Schott, Jeeves and the King of Clubs (2018)   Sarah Moss, Night Waking (2011)   George Tomkyns Chesney, The Battle of Dorking (1871)   George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (1969)   Brian Fee and John Lasseter, Cars (2006)   A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers (1902)   EA Dice Battlefield 1 (2016)

How do you get children interested in the First World War? In this podcast episode, we are joined by Andrew Powell-Thomas, editor of Over The Top, a history magazine aimed at children, published by the Great War Group. We then speak to two special guests, who give us their opinion. Along the way we consider how you get specialist historians to write for children, what stories spark historical interest and the importance of animals to the history of the war.  References: Over the TopThe Great War Group Andrew Powell-Thomas Rudyard Kipling, ‘My Boy Jack' Mark Connelly The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2015.  

How are embroidery, and the women who do it, portrayed in the years after the First World War? This month Jessica takes us on a tour of post-war embroidery in Tracy Chevalier's A Single Thread and Dorothy Whipple's High Wages. Along the way we discuss surplus women, the varying perceptions of embroidery as skilled work, and the constant reminders of the First World War. References:Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread (2019) Dorothy Whipple, High Wages (1930) Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (1927) Dorothy L. Sayers, Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) Herman Darewski and R.P. Weston, ‘Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers'  (1914). This is Billy Murry's 1915 version) Janet S.K. Watson, Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory and the First World War (2004) Alexia Moncrieff,  Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in the First World War(2020) Ana Carden-Coyne, ‘Butterfly Touch: rehabilitation, nature and the haptic arts in the First World War', Critical Military Studies  6:2 (2020) Lesley Glaister, Blasted Things (2020). See episode 9 of the podcast for our discussion with Lesley Glaister. Armistice & After: Peace Project, Leeds City Museum 10th-18th November 2018:   

What did it take to be a good junior officer in the First World War? This month, Chris, Angus and Jessica speak to Charles Fair about the development of junior officer training in the war. Along the way we discuss the significance of the Territorial Force, which schools had officer training corps and the definition of a 'temporary gentleman'. References Blackadder Goes Forth (1983)   Charles Fair, Marjorie's War: Four Families in the Great War 1914-1918 (2012)   Charles Fair, 'From OTC to OCB: The Professionalisation of the Selection and Training of Junior Temporary Officers During the Great War' in Spencer Jones (ed) 1917: The Darkest Year: The British Army on the Western Front 1917, pp.78-109    Dan Todman, The Great War: Myth and Memory (2007)   Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (1933)   Gary Sheffield, Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)   Henry Ogle and Michael Glover (ed), The Fateful Battle Line: The Great War Journals and Sketches of Captain Henry Ogle MC (1993)   H. F. Maltby, A Temporary Gentleman (1920)   Ian Isherwood, Remembering the Great War: Writing and Publishing the Experiences of World War I (2017)   John Bourne, ‘British Generals in the First World War' in Gary Sheffield (ed), Leadership and Command: The Anglo-American Military Experience since 1861, (London: Brassey's, 1997) pp. 93-116 John Bourne, ‘The BEF's Generals on 29 September 1918: An Empirical Portrait with Some British and Australian Comparisons' in Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Gray (eds), Defining Victory 1918, (Canberra: Army History Unit, Dept of Defence, 1999), pp.96-113.   Martin Petter, (1994). ‘Temporary Gentlemen' in the aftermath of the Great War: Rank, status and the ex-officer problem. The Historical Journal, 37(1), 127-152. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00014734   Michael Roper, The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War (2009)   Paul Harris, The Men Who Planned the War: A Study of the Staff of the British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918(2015)   Peter Simkins,‘ ‘Building Blocks': Aspects of Command and Control at Brigade level in the BEF's Offensive Operations, 1916-–1918' in Gary Sheffield and Dan Todman (eds), Command and Control on the Western Front: The British Army's Experience 1914-18, (Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2004)   R.C. Sherrif, Journey's End (1928)   Reginald Hill, The Wood Beyond (1995)   Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That (1929)   Royal Military College Sandhurst, ‘Syllabus of the Course of Instruction (For Three-Term Course)', 1912   Siegfried Sassoon, The Memoirs of George Sherston (1928-1936)   Tim Halstead, ' "A Ragged Business": Officer Training Corps, Public Schools and the Recruitment of the Junior Officer Corps of 1916' in Spencer Jones (ed) At All Costs: The British Army on the Western Front 1916, pp. 414-429. Also see his forthcoming More Than Victims of Horace: Public Schools 1914-1918 (Helion, 2022)

What effect did the First World War have on football?   This month we're joined by Dr Alexander Jackson (National Football Museum) to discuss the ways in which the First World War and football affected each other during and after the conflict. Along the way we discuss football as a recruitment tool, tensions regarding amateur status, and the reason why some football pitches aren't as equal as others...   References: Jackson, A. Football's Great War. Pen & Sword, 2022

How is the First World War represented in British comics? In 1979 the Battle launched a new strip, Charley's War. The story followed boy soldier Charley Bourne, who fought his way through the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and ended up in Russia in 1919. Written by Pat Mills, it was inspired by the film Oh! What a lovely war. The aim of the strip was not to glorify the conflict but to encourage the reader to re-evaluate their preconceptions of the First World War. At the time of publication, what made this unusual was it went against the standard preconceived historical storylines in other comic strips, which worked to normalise war and elevate the central character to the status of a hero. Angus enthusiastically read them at the time, Chris and Jessica are much more recent consumers of Charley's War. References: 'Pat Mills on Charley's War', IWM Comics and Conflicts Conference (2011) Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1975) Hynes, Samuel, The Soldier's Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War (Allen Lane 1997) Jachimiak, Peter Hughes. "'Woolly Bears and Toffee Apples': History, Memory, and Masculinity in Charley's War", The Lion and the unicorn, 31.2 (2007), 162-175 MacCallum-Stewart, Esther, 'The First World War and British Comics' University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History. 6 (2003) 1-18 Mills, Pat, and Joe Colquhoun, Charley's War (London: Titan Books, 2004) Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane, 'Image, Text, and Story: Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom', Art Education, 61.6 (2008), 13-19 Wurtz, James F., 'Representing the Great War: Violence, Memory, and Comic Form', Pacific Coast Philology, 44.2 (2009), 205-215

How did the First World War draw upon classical imagery?   This month we are joined by Giles Penman (PhD student at the University of Warwick) to discuss the various ways that classicism manifested itself in imagery and objects before and after the conflict. Along the way we discuss the use of Britannia as a recruitment icon, different claims to civilisation, and some unusual appearances for Queen Victoria.   References   Carden-Coyne, A. Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism and the First World War. OUP, 2009 Dresser, M. Britannia. In R. Samuel (Ed.), Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity: Volume III: National Fictions. Routledge, 1989. Fantauzzo, J., & Nelson, R. L. Expeditionary Forces in the Shatterzone: German, British and French Soldiers on the Macedonian Front, 1915–1918 in Beyerchen, A & Sencer, E (Eds) Expeditionary Forces in the First World War. Palgrave, 2019 Hall, E. British Imperialist and/or Avatar of Welshness?: Caractacus Performances in the Long Nineteenth Century. In F. Kaminski-Jones, & R. Kaminski-Jones (Eds.), Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities. OUP, 2020 Hall, E., & Stead, H. A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939. Routledge, 2020 Laqueur, T. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. Princeton University Press, 2015 Laqueur, T. Memory and Naming in the Great War. In J. R. Gillis (Ed.), Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Princeton University Press, 2018 McCartney, H. Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War. CUP, 2005  Mosse, G. Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the memories of the world wars. OUP, 1990. Oliver, G. 'Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'. In P. Low, G. Oliver, & P. J. Rhodes (Eds.), Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern. OUP, 2012    VanDiver, E. Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War. OUP, 2013

How has the First World War been represented in Russia? This month Angus, Chris and Jessica are joined by Sofya Anisimova to discuss the film Sniper (1931) and its representation of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France. Along the way, we discuss the significance of sound in film, the importance of re-enactment groups in retaining the memory of the war and the popularity of Richard Aldington and Henri Barbusse in Russian culture, while once again attempting to give Chris nightmares.

How do you convert the First World War into a short story?   This month we're joined by Dr Ann-Marie Einhaus (Northumbria) to explore short fiction published during and after the First World War. Along the way we discuss what makes a short story, the varying themes that appeared over time, and how too many sandwiches may be a sign of a German spy.   References: The Penguin Book of First World War Stories, ed. by Barbara Korte and Ann-Marie Einhaus (Penguin Classics, 2007).   The Prisoner's Defence and Other First World War Stories, ed. by Ann-Marie Einhaus (British Library, 2017).

How should we remember the man whose assassination sparked the July Crisis?   This month we are joined by Dr Sam Foster (UEA) to examine the life, death, and representation of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Along the way we discuss the complicated relationships of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Franz Ferdinand's interactions with the contemporary press, and how everything eventually leads back to railways.   Bibliography Mentioned in the episode: Christopher Clark, The SleepwalkersRobert Gerwart & Erez Manela, Empires at War 1911-1923 [On Franz Ferdinand + Austria-Hungary]  Richard Ned Lebow, Archdukle Franz Ferdidnand Lives!: A World Without World War I (2014) Mark Cornwall, The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds (2000) Mark Cornwall (ed), The Last Years Of Austria-Hungary: A Multi-National Experiment in Early Twentieth-Century Europe (2005 edition) Mark Cornwall (ed), Sarajevo 1914: Sparking the First World World (2020) Samuel R. Williamson, Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War (1991) Stefan Zweig & Anthea Bell (trans.), The World of Yesterday (2013 paperback edition) [More for context on why Austria-Hungary gained the sort of image that it did, especially after 1945] Adam Kozuchowski, The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary, The: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe (2013) Hannes Leidinger (ed), Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present) (2018) Peter M.Judson, The Habsburg Empire: A New History (2018) Steve Beller, The Habsburg Monarchy, 1815–1918 (2018) Markian Prokopovych, Carl Bethke & Tamara Scheer (eds), Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire (2019) [On the war's origins and perceptions of Austria-Hungary and wider 'the wider East'...] James Lyon, Serbia and the Balkan Front 1914: The Outbreak of the Great War (2015) Troy R.E. Paddock, Contesting the Origins of the First World War: An Historiographical Argument (2020) Leon Trotsky, 1912-1913: The War Correspondence of Leon Trotsky (2005 edition) Igor Despot, The Balkan Wars in the Eyes of the Warring Parties: Perceptions and Interpretations (2012) Dominik Geppert, William Mulligan, et al (eds), The Wars before the Great War: Conflict and International Politics before the Outbreak of the First World War (2015) James Pettifer &Tom Buchanan (eds), War in the Balkans: Conflict and Diplomacy Before World War I (2015) Andrea Orzoff, Battle for the Castle: The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914-1948 (2009) John Paul Newman, Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building (2015) Hugh Seton-Watson & Christopher Seton-Watson, The Making of a New Europe: R.W. Seton-Watson and the Last Years of Austria-Hungary (1981) Robert Evans, Dušan Kováč, Edita Ivaničková, Great Britain and Central Europe, 1867-1914 (2002) Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present (2010) Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans (1997) Vensa Goldsworthy, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination (1998) Eugene Michail, The British and the Balkans: Forming Images of Foreign Lands, 1900-1950 (2011) Diana Mishkova, Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making (2018) Nicholas Daly, Ruritania: A Cultural History from the Prisoner of Zenda to The Princess Diaries (2020) André Maurois Fattypuffs and Thinifers (1930).

What songs were popular during the First World War?   This month friend of the podcast Dr Emma Hanna (Kent) returns to talk to us about popular music during the war. Along the way we discuss who decided what music was suitable for the troops, the rock and roll lifestyle of men in the Royal Flying Corp, and which versions of Mademoiselle from Armentières are suitable to play to your children.   References: Emma Hanna, Sounds of War, Music in the British Armed Forces during the Great War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)

How does the First World War appear on the stage?   This month Angus, Chris and Jessica speak to the theatre historian Helen Brooks about her work on the Great War Theatre project. Along the way, we discuss the importance of sex to the rules of censorship, consider the role of theatre in bridging the past and the present and find out which play threatens to give Chris nightmares.   References: Greatwartheatre.org.uk Helen Brooks, "Remembering the War on the British Stage: From Resistance to Reconstruction", in Revival After the Great War: Rebuild, Remember, Repair, Reform (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020) 165-178 Helen Brooks, "‘Are there any more recruits?' - British theatre and the recruitment drive, 1914–1915," First World War Studies 10, no 2-3 (2020): 207-224 Gott Straf England Dorothy Mullard, In the Hands of the Hun In Time of War The Era The Stage Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot, A Better 'Ole (1917) R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End (1928) Star Wars  Grand Guignol A Gas Attack J.M. Barrie Arthur Wing Pinero The Battle of the Somme (1916) Oh! What a Lovely War (1963) Nick Whitby, To the Green Fields Beyond (2000) Nick Stafford, War Horse (2007) Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (1982) The Greatest Showman (2017) Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful (2003)

How do you turn the diplomatic exchanges before the outbreak of the First World War into a TV drama? This month Angus, Jessica, and Chris discuss the 2014 BBC series 37 Days. Along the way they explore the role of France in the war's outbreak, how similar the cast appeared to historical figures, a random Star Wars connection, and whether Guy Ritchie should tackle the topic next. References37 Days (1914)Christopher Clark The Sleep Walkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Penguin, 2013) Mark Hayhurst The battle of '37 days' (openDemocracy, 2014)David Elstein The BBC's Great War (openDemocracy, 2014)Fritz Fischer Germany's Aims in the First World War (WW Norton & Company, 1967)James Joll, The Origins of the First World War (1970)The Pursuit of Love (BBC1 2021)William Le Queux, The Invasion of 1910 (1906) John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) Parade's End (BBC2 2012)

How do you turn the First World War into a computer game?   In this episode Chris and Angus talk to Yoan Fanise the developer behind such First World War computer games as Valiant Hearts: The Great War and 11-11: Memories Retold. Along the way we discuss making the audience cry, different national interpretations and memories of the conflict, and whether it's become easier to sell a First World War computer game.   References   Games   11-11: Memories Retold (DigixArt: 2018)   Battlefield 1 (EA Dice: 2016)   Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft: 2014)    Verdun 1914-1918 (M2H & Blackmill Games: 2013)   Documentaries   Apocalypse: World War 1 (Francetv 2: 2014)   Additional Reading It’s Hard to Play in the Trenches: World War I,Collective Memory and Videogames – Adam Chapman Great War Games: Notes on Collective Memory, theAdynaton, and Posthumanism - Iro Filippaki Pixel Lions – the image of the soldier in First World War computer games - Chris Kempshall War collaborators: documentary and historical sources inFirst World War computer games- Chris Kempshall   Race, Battlefield 1 and the White Mythic Space of theFirst World War - Stefan Aguirre Quiroga Liminality and the Smearing of War and Play inBattlefield 1 - Debra Ramsay  

How does the landscape inform our understanding of a First World War film? In this episode cultural historian Beth Wyatt talks to Angus, Jessica, and Chris about the use of landscape in Sam Mendes' film 1917. Along the way we discuss how soldiers used the world around them to remember home, the importance of cherry trees, and what the Archers landscape would look like if it was real. References:1917 (2019) The flora of the Somme battlefield: a botanical perspective on a post-conflict landscape by James Alexander Wearn, Andrew Philip Budden, Sarah Catherine Veniard & David Richardson Environmental Histories of the First World War - Edited by Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill, & Martin Schmid Landscapes of the First World War - Edited by Martina Salvante, Selena Daly & Vanda Wilcox Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War by John Lewis-Stempel 'Destruction of the Ecosystem' by Tait Keller Useful War Memorials, Landscape Preservation and Public Access to the English Countryside: Fitting Tributes to the Fallen of the Great War by Keith Grieves and Jenifer White George Mackay and Dean-Charles Chapman | Preparing for 1917 The making of 1917 | Mark Strong, Daniel Mays and Andrew Scott "It's our burden to learn that story" | Krysty Wilson-Cairns on writing 1917  

What makes a First World War film popular?  In the last episode the team looked at 'obscure' movies, this time they look at those First World War films that are deemed to be 'popular'. Along the way discussing themes of nationalism, pan-euopreanism and the creation of tropes. References: All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) La Grande Illusion (1937) Paths of Glory (1957) Oh! What a lovely War (1969) Gallipoli (1981) The long, long trail, BBC Home Service (1961) The Great War, BBC (1964) Emma Hanna, Sounds of War: Music in the British Armed Forces during the Great War (2020) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On The Western Front (1928)

What makes a First World War film ‘obscure’? This month Chris, Angus and Jessica discuss some lesser-known films set during the First World War.  Along the way, we consider national stereotypes, the dangers of a Dawn Patrol drinking game, the brilliance of Basil Rathbone, the role of the individual in wartime and the greatest honour a French officer can bestow on a British serviceman. References: The Big Parade (1925) A Better ‘Ole  (1926) Wings (1927) Dawn Patrol (1938) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Le Roi de Coeur (King of Hearts) (1966) In Which We Serve (1942) Casablanca (1942) ‘Goodbyeee’ – Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) Evelyn Waugh, Scoop (1938) Bruce Bairnsfather Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) Soviet Soldiers Dancing (Twitter: @communistbops) R.C. Sherriff, Journey’s End (1928) Rosa Maria Bracco, Merchants of Hope: British Middlebrow Writers and the First World War (Berg, 1993) The Right Stuff (1993) Charles M. Schultz, Peanuts The Battle of Somme (1916) William Shakespeare, Two Noble Kinsmen Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Knight’s Tale’, The Canterbury Tales Pearl Harbour (2001) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Downton Abbey (2010-2015) Ilana Bet-El, Conscripts: Forgotten Men of the First World War (The History Press, 1999) Stephen Badsey, ‘Battle of the Somme: British War Propaganda’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , Volume 2, Number 2, 1984. La Grande Illusion (1937) The Prisoner (1967) Twitter: @OWALPodcast

Could you play a board game about the First World War, during the First World War? In this episode Jessica, Chris and Angus talk to Holly Nielsen (PhD student at Royal Holloway, London) about board games during the First World War. As a result we learn about games converted into wartime themes, the benefits of the war to the British toy industry, the dangers of channelling the dead in a superstitious household, and what's leapt to the top of Jessica's 'wish list'. References Owen Davies, A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith During the First World War. OUP, 2018 Krom (T. J. Edwards, 1916)    Recruiting for Kitchener’s Army (Valentines & Sons, c.1914) The Dash to Berlin (BritishIndoor Games Company, September 1914)   The Game of the Way to Berlin (Children’s Magazine, December 1914)  The ‘Strand’ War Game (The ‘Strand’ Magazine, 1916)

How do you portray a moment of peace during the First World War when it's not always clear what actually happened? In our Christmas Special, Angus, Chris and Jessica speak to historian Mark Connelly (University of Kent) about the Christmas Truce of 1914. Along the way we discuss Paul McCartney, the difficulty of playing football in No Man's Land, British soldiers as 9-to-5 workers, and a Christmas Truce with the coronavirus. References The Great War: Episode 5 - "This Business May Last a Long Time" (BBC, 1964)   Peace in No Man's Land (BBC, 1981)     Paul McCartney - Pipes of Peace (Song, 1983)     Malcolm Brown & Shirley Brown - Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914 (Book, 1984)   Joyeux Noël (Film, 2005)   Terri Blom Crocker The Christmas Truce: myth, memory, and the First World War (University of Kentucky Press, 2015).

How do you write a novel about the First World War without resorting to cliché? This month, Angus, Chris and Jessica speak to novelist Lesley Glaister about her new book, Blasted Things, set in the aftermath of the war. Along the way we discuss family history, what it feels like to hold historical documents, the medico-legal definition of PTSD and how to capture the register of a place and time effectively. References: Lesley Glaister, Blasted ThingsLesley Glaister, Little EgyptLesley Glaister, Easy Peasy Anne Powell, Women in the War Zone Rebecca West, Return of the Soldier Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End Aldous Huxley Rosamund Lehman Virginia Woolf May Sinclair Agatha Christie, Witness for the Prosecution, adapted by Sarah Phelps Louisa Young, My Dear, I Have Something to Tell You Sarah Waters Dorothy Whipple, High Wages Wendy Gagen, (2007) ‘Remastering the Body, Renegotiating Gender: Physical Disability and Masculinity during the First World War, the Case of J. B. Middlebrook’, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 14:4, 525-541,DOI: 10.1080/13507480701752169 Oliver Wilkinson, British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Joel Morley, ‘Dad ‘never said much’ but… Young Men and Great War Veterans in Day-to-Day-Life in Interwar Britain’, Twentieth Century British History, Volume 29, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages 199–224, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwx063 Michael Roper, ‘Re-remembering the Soldier Hero: the Psychic and Social Construction of Memory in Personal Narratives of the Great War’, History Workshop Journal, Volume 50, Issue 1, AUTUMN 2000, Pages 181–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/2000.50.181      

How does popular culture see Lawrence of Arabia? This month Angus, Chris and Jessica speak to cartoonist Ned Barnett about his work on T. E. Lawrence, including both his research travelogue, Dreamers of the Day, and his on-going three volume graphic biography of the famous polymath. Along the way we discuss Lawrence as a celebrity, the challenges of cartooning, the comparative heights of Lawrence and Peter O’Toole and the textile holdings of the National Army Museum. References Ned Barnett, Dreamers of the Day (2019) Michael Korda, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (2011) Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East  (2013) Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir. David Lean World War I Museum (Kansas City, Missouri) National Army Museum (London) Imperial War Museums (London) Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) Holly Furneaux, Military Men of Feeling: Emotion, Touch and Masculinity in the Crimean War (2016) Hergé, Tintin Lucy Knisley, The Age of License (2014) Museum of History of Science (Oxford) With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia (1919), dir. Lowell Thomas Graham Dawson, Soldier Heroes: British Empire, Adventure and the Imagining of Masculinities (1994) Louis Halewood, Adam Luptak and Hanna Smyth, War Time: First World War Perspectives on Temporality (2019) TE. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)  

What happens when a Sunday night crime caper takes the history of the First World War seriously? In this episode Jessica, Chris and Angus talk about the cult Australian television series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. We discuss class in interwar Australia, what it meant to be a conscientious objector and why it might be a mistake to admit to bribery in front of a policeman in the third of our series on representations of the First World War in television crime dramas. References: Jessica Meyer, ‘Matthew's Legs and Thomas's Hand: Watching Downton Abbey as a First World War Historian’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Dec 2018, vo. 16, No. 1 : pp. 78-93. Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn (2013) Kerry Greenwood, Murder on a Midsummer Night (2008) Dorothy L. Sayers, the Peter Wimsey novels P.G. Wodehouse, the Blandings novels Helen Smith, Masculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Dad’s Army, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branded_(Dad%27s_Army) Ian Whitehead, Doctors in the Great War (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2013; first published Leo Cooper, 1999). ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Concept Document’, https://www.abc.net.au/tv/phrynefisher/classroom/MissFisher_ConceptDocument.pdf Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man (1934); The Thin Man (1934) directed by W.S. Van Dyke Miss Fisher’s Murder Mystery episodes: Season 1, episode 3, ‘The Green Mill Murder’ Season 1, episode 4, ‘Death at Victoria Dock’ Season 1, episode 7, ‘Murder at Montparnasse’ Season 2, episode 2, ‘Death Comes Knocking’ Season 3, episode 4, ‘Blood and Money’ Season 3, episode 5, ‘Death and Hysteria’ Season 3, episode 6, ‘Death at the Grand’ Season 3, episode 8, ‘Death Do Us Part’