War, Media & Society

And in other news, you can also now find us over on the other site, @ wms-unikent 🔵☁️ We'll be posting on here as well for now, but head over and drop us a follow there if you want to stay up to date with the Centre's news and events!

The next IHR War, Society and Culture seminar is taking place this evening at 5:30m, with a paper from David Monger (University of Canterbury, NZ) on propaganda towards the USA during the FWW. More info here on how to attend in person or online: history.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

The IHR War, Society and Culture seminar series is back next week! Join us as we kick off the new term with a paper on the FWW and social class 💥 ⏰ 24/09/25, 5.30pm 📌 Online via Zoom / In-person at @ihr_history Register here: history.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Next up on the WMS 'Munitions of the Mind' blog, we have a new post from @GaryW_Env_Hist all about the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and its work in the era of the Second World War. Check it out at the link below 👇 blogs.kent.ac.uk/munitions-of-t…

It's the final IHR War, Society and Culture seminar of the term tomorrow at 5.30pm! Join us for a paper from Andrew McCarthy and John Adderley, 'Where Do You Put the Camera? Re-filming The Battle of the Somme' 🎥 Details and booking here: history.ac.uk/events/where-d…

The final IHR War, Society and Culture seminar is taking place online this evening at 5.30pm! Our speaker is Clare V. Church, on 'Stars in Service: The Disruption of the Second World War onto Women’s Celebrity in the UK, USA, and France' More info here: history.ac.uk/events/stars-s…

A reminder that the War, Media and Society 30th Anniversary lecture is taking place TONIGHT at 17.30! All are very welcome to attend, either online or in Canterbury.

The next War, Society and Culture seminar takes place tomorrow (26/02) at 5.30pm. 📃 @GaryW_Env_Hist, ‘Prepared To Make a Fine Fuss’: Civil Society’s Contestation of the Environmental Impact of Britain’s Long Second World War, 1936–46 Details: history.ac.uk/events/prepare… #envhist

The IHR War, Society and Culture seminar returns this Wednesday! 🥳 Krisztina Robert's paper on 'The Origins of the First World War Women's Corps, 1780s–191' will start at 5.30pm and be available to watch both in person and online. More info here: history.ac.uk/events/militan…

📢 An article co-written by one of our honorary fellows, Edward Corse, has recently been published in the Slavonic and East European Review. Find 'Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Polish Relations through Medical and Scientific Exchanges, 1939–1956' here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/articl…

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 'Contexts of the Holocaust', a conference co-organised by @_BIAHS_ and @WMS_UniKent, will take place on 3-4 July 2025. Closing date for abstracts is 28th February - find more info at biahs.co.uk/conferences/

Edward Corse has put together a list of the best books that explore the role of neutral countries in times of war, including his own #OpenAccess book edited with Marta García Cabrer, Propaganda and Neutrality bit.ly/415rSck 🔓 bit.ly/417ewfr

Fascinated by the enduring appeal of combat as spectacle? Interested in the interlinked phenomena of sport and war? Send us your proposals for papers, panels and posters (deadline 7 Jan, conference 28/29 Oct 2025 @Royal_Armouries). Details at royalhistsoc.org/calendar/comba…

The last IHR War, Society and Culture seminar of term will host @UniKentHistory's own @jennyturner_! 📜 Jenny Turner, 'The Language of Remembrance: First World War Memorial Inscriptions in Wales' 📅 04/12/24, 5.30pm 📍 In-person @ihr_history & online history.ac.uk/events/languag…

The “Langemarck” streets project continues today with a conference of heritage experts at Langemark. Their aim is to contextualise streets named by the Nazis after the battle of 1914. More info on this project can be found here: langemark-poelkapelle.be/en/langemarcks…

The second session of the War, Society and Culture seminar is next week! 📜 Jerry Palmer, 'Memoirs and their Contexts: Nurses in the Great War, especially Germany Post–1933' 📅 06/11/24, 5.30pm 📍 In-person @ihr_history & online All info here 👇 history.ac.uk/events/memoirs…

The IHR War, Society and Culture seminar returns next week! All welcome as usual 🥳 📜 Roberto Pérez-Castro, 'The Patriotic Mobilisation of the British Community in Chile during the World Wars' 📅 09/10/24, 5.30pm 📍 In-person @ihr_history & online history.ac.uk/events/patriot…

For the last War, Society and Culture seminar of the term, we'll be hearing from our very own Prof. Mark Connelly! 🥳 📜 'Chalk, Englishness and the Great War: From Southern England to the Somme' 🗓️ 3 July 2024, 5.30pm 📍 In-person @ihr_history & online history.ac.uk/events/chalk-e…

The next IHR War, Society and Culture seminar will host Yorai Linenberg (Birkbeck) for a paper on Jewish POWs in Nazi captivity. 🗓️ 5 June 2024, 5.30pm 📍 In-person @ihr_history / Online via Zoom More details and booking info here: history.ac.uk/events/jewish-…