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Guardian Series on WW1
I enjoy a series like this as however reduced every author and each era has its own take on the what, ehy, how, and who of WW1: the only thing they agree on is when. 1914-1918 Today a pocket series...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
This is the must read at the top of any list of TEN. See the film produced in 1930 too. Can anything beat it? Let’s see how Daniel Radcliffe performs in this role when the latest remake comes up for...
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The war to end war? So H G Wells thought in 1914 and 1936
Fig. 1 World War (Parts 1-6) I’m reading ‘World War’ to understand better how people thought if the events at the time. The first issue of 52 came out on 8th November 1934. It is described as a...
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IWM Forward Communications. Western Front. Trenches
At what point does a walk through exhibit become a science-fiction flight through time to expeience the moment as it was. Distinctly lacking in this trench: flies, rats, the smell of death, urine,...
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Shooting the Front. Terry Finnegan on the role of observers over the Western...
Fig. 1. Shooting the Front. Terry Finnegan gave a presentation based on his book ‘Shooting the Front’ to an audience, largely of Friends of the Imperial War Museum at the IWM on Wednesday 20th June....
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How to mark the centenary of ‘War One’
Fig. 1. Mind Map on factors to consider regarding marking the centenary of the First World War I put this together after visits to the Imperial War Museum and the WW1 display at Newhaven Thought, by...
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Tommy shared. Notes shared on Twitter from ‘Tommy’ by Richard Holmes
‘TOMMY’ SHARED As I read Tommy as an eBook both on a Kindle and iPad I shared notes to Twitter. Note: The idea of poor leadership amongst senior officers in WW1 is based on evidence. The want of...
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Augmented Reality
I’d like to see the numbers in such exhibits complemented so that using augmented reality on a Smartphone or Tablet you get to see the exhibit in situ, with commentary, even drama reconstruction.
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Augmented reality if memorials
I’d like to see augmented reality used to reveal a photograph of everyone named on memorials such as these – putting a face to a name, a life lost.
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The men from Lewes who died in the First World War
Fi Fig. 1. The War Memorial, Lewes High Street, Lewes An extraordinary way to impress upon those living today, the terrible price and undoubted anguish and trauma caused by the death of one or more...
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Reading up on the First World War
Although Kindle suggests otherwise I have read most of these. I have read Christopher Clark ‘The Sleepwalkers. How europe went to war in 1914′ twice and am now reducing copious notes down to a...
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Johnny got his gun
Few films have left me so moved and shocked. I saw this film in passing, perhaps twice when I was in my teens. Half-hearted attempts to give it a name failed until I clicked through an IMDB list this...
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The ante-war rock video – One (Metallica)
As stories of rock history go this is pretty impressive. Taken by the movie ‘Johnny got his gun’ the heavy metal band composed the song ‘One’ and used clips from the film intercut with the band playing...
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WWI MOOC
Fig.1 Underdtanding the Great War As an MA student on the Bham First World War studies programme we are reading and then writing a book review on Niall Ferguson’s ‘The Pity of War’. The consequence...
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The Pity of War
The time taken to construct these digital ‘design’ doodles pays dividends as it obliges me to give far greater thought to what I say – in this case the considered construction of a one thousand word...
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The Pity of War: Mindmap for a Book Review
Fig.1 SimpleMind Mindmap based on Niall Ferguson’s ‘The Pity of War’ I’ve now read ‘The Pity of War’ twice in a row. As I’ve gone through it I’ve highlighted passages and added notes and tabs in...
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The Pity of War (1998) by Niall Ferguson – towards a comprehensive book review
A review by J F Vernon of ‘The Pity of War’ (1998) Niall Ferguson ‘[The Pity of War’, despite its personal, gentle and engaging introduction seeing the war through the experiences of a long dead...
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Sir Douglas Haig by J P Harris (2008)
Created in SimpleMinds. get in touch if you’d like a copy. Download the SimpleMinds App for free. Douglas Haig and the First World War (2008) J P Harriss Nearly 600 pages that follow a chronology that...
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On why the BBC series ‘The Great War’ (1964) has not withstood the test of time.
Fig.1 Freeze frame from the ‘Great War’ title sequence The Great War’ television history series produced by the BBC in the early 1960s has not stood the test of time and so does not warrant broadcast...
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