Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy

Description

Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy is a First World War Engagement Centre funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and in partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund. The University of Birmingham Centre is a joint initiative across the Midlands with Birmingham City University, University of Wolverhampton and University of Worcester, and further afield with Cardiff University, University of Durham, Manchester Metropolitan University and Newcastle University.

The Engagement Centre is based in the Library of Birmingham and supports a wide range of community engagement activities, connecting academic and public histories of the First World War as part of the commemoration of the War’s centenary.

The Centre covers a broad range of relevant research knowledge that enables it to respond to diverse community interests. This research knowledge ranges from the history of Birmingham, the Black Country and urban and rural Worcestershire to the impact of air power, from the experiences of Belgian refugees to trench warfare, from Quakers and humanitarian relief to battlefield archaeology, and from caring for the casualties of war to the involvement of colonial troops and labour.

Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy offers research support and guidance for community groups around the First World War in general and in particular around the following themes:

• belief and the great war;
• childhood;
• cities at war;
• commemoration;
• gender and the home front;
• peace and conflict.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2014

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University affiliation(s)

University of Birmingham
Birmingham

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National Trust

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Partner Universities

Birmingham City University

Cardiff University

Durham University

Manchester Metropolitan University

Newcastle University

University of Wolverhampton

University of Worcester