Legacies ISFWWS 2019

Account of the 2019 @FWWSoc conference, 'Legacies', in Leeds 10-13 September. Twitter conference: 2 September #LegaciesFWW2019

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Our final paper of this panel, and of all the panels, comes from @BrianKFeltman. His paper is titled “The Commemorative Legacies of Defeat: German Visual Culture and the Memorialisation of the Fallen” #LegaciesFWW2019

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Our final panel of the day is on Remembrance and Commemoration. First up is @ChSpittel with a paper on Australian romance fiction and the centenary war books boom. #LegaciesFWW2019

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Next up is @CMSMcCartney with a paper exploring Sunday schools in the aftermath of the First World War. #LegaciesFWW2019

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We round off this panel with British soldier-sculptors, memorialisation and the legacy of the war - from speaker Jonathan Black #LegaciesFWW2019

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Back after morning tea, and we have Alex Holowicki, who will be discussing ‘Pelekane’ and the Hawaiian music of the First World War #LegaciesFWW2019

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Our third panellist is @drhelenbrooks whose paper will explore disability on the post-war British stage. #LegaciesFWW2019

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We’re back for the final day. First up we have @KristineAlexand with her keynote examining girls and the history, historiography, and the aftermath of the First World War #LegaciesFWW2019

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Our final speaker of this panel is @tlgrady68 with a paper exploring German First World War Graves in Britain. #LegaciesFWW2019

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Our final panel of the day is on Internment and Prisoners of War. First up is @skiptonpow with a paper about German POWs from a Yorkshire camp. #LegaciesFWW2019

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Our next speaker is @CSternberg1 with a paper titled “A Writer Born in Jorkshire: First World War Civilian Internment and the work of Paul Cohen-Portheim” #LegaciesFWW2019

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Our final speaker in this Life Writing panel is Carol Acton. This paper will explore grief in wartime collections of family letters. #LegaciesFWW2019

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First up after lunch is @ChrisKempshall - speaking about memoirs on African-American soldiers in the First World War #LegaciesFWW2019

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Our third speaker of the panel is @DrLindaMaynard, who is focussing on sibling grief in the aftermath of the war #LegaciesFWW2019

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⁦@mhaultaingall⁩ picks some big holes in the tale around the Lions from the Menin Gate at Ypres ⁦@LegaciesFWW2019⁩ They had a low-key arrival in Canberra in 1936 and remained in storage until the 1980s — hardly major symbols of reconciliation, at least until recently.

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Our final speaker on this panel is @mhaultaingall who will be speaking on mobilising the Anzac legend in the Ypres salient #LegaciesFWW2019

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Our second panel of the day is looking at War Graves and Battlefield Memorials. First up is @hannamsmyth with a paper called “What to do with wooden crosses? Authenticity, Objects, and Distance in Postwar Imperial Mourning” #LegaciesFWW2019

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You can find Sarah on here at @Fiss_Sarah #LegaciesFWW2019