Oh! What a lovely podcast

By: The WW1 History Team
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  • A history podcast discussing various cultural genres which reference the First World War, including detective fiction, Star Wars and death metal music, and ask why the First World War has particular popular cultural relevance.
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Episodes
  • 55 - Sapphire and Steel

    55 - Sapphire and Steel
    Feb 1 2025
    What happens when you combine the First World War with a 1970s cult sci-fi classic? This month we watched 'Assignment 2' from the television series Sapphire & Steel which features a ghostly First World War soldier haunting an abandoned railway station. Along the way we discuss differing approaches to sacrifice, the idea of an 'unjust' death, and where the show sits on our ongoing 'creepy' list.
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    38 mins
  • 54 - Ian Isherwood, The Battalion and Digital History

    54 - Ian Isherwood, The Battalion and Digital History
    Jan 1 2025

    What do you do when a student brings you a collection of family papers in a Harrods tin?

    This month, Chris, Angus and Jessica speak to Professor Ian Isherwood about his new book, The Battalion: Citizen Soldiers at War on the Western Front. Along the way, we discuss developing digital humanities projects, the involvement of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis in rambling and the proliferation of bad war poetry.

    References:
    Ian Isherwood, The Battalion: Citizen Soldiers at War on the Western Front
    Ian Isherwood, The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs
    Michael Roper, Afterlives of War: A Descendant's History
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    40 mins
  • 53 - Walking Tours

    53 - Walking Tours
    Dec 1 2024
    How do you walk people through First World War landscapes? This month we welcome back Prof Mark Connelly to discuss his new walking tours endeavour Connelly Contours. Along the way we discuss war memorials in the London landscape, the evolution of remembrance, and if bad weather provides important context.
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    49 mins

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