Amiens, June 6-10, 2016 The four days will be devoted to the first centennial of the Battle of the Somme. We will focus on the consequences brought about by the shock produced on the peoples of the main protagonists on the French battlefield : the United Kingdom, France and Germany. As a matter of fact their troops faced one another on July 1st 1916 which happened to be a watershed for the United Kingdom and its Empire. Only the United Kingdom and Germany will be taken into account. Two main points will be studied 1- the period before « the Big Push » 2- the shock waves produced by the…

One Day Symposium 27 February 2016: Imperial War Museum, North Keynote Speakers: Professor Jay Winter (Yale University) – ‘Remembering the Great War: A Trans-National Approach’ Professor Maggie Andrews (University of Worcester) – Gendering Remembrance: The Home Front in Contemporary Media and Community Engagement with the First World War’ The centenary anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War has initiated a wave of commemorative activities which impact on how the conflict is understood and remembered. This marks the latest phase in processes which began while the war was underway and which have been fought and re-fought in the intervening century. This symposium follows the pioneering lead of scholars including Jay…