Author: Larissa Allwork

Continuing the Centre for Hidden Histories engagement with World War One history in UK schools, Dr Ben Braber has run a number of sessions for students from the Trent Academies Group (Rushcliffe School, The Farnborough Academy and Arnold Hill Academy).  In July, 30 year nine students and 10 year ten and eleven students attended history workshops led by Ben and conducted in partnership with Nottingham Central Library and Nottinghamshire Archives.  The workshops were convened to analyse primary sources associated with Ben’s Centre for Hidden Histories project, German immigrants in Nottingham during the First World War.

Click on the link to read a student account of the project in Rushcliffe School’s Newsletter.

For further information, see Dr Ben Braber’s website.

On Wednesday 20th July, Larissa Allwork and Mike Noble were pleased to be invited to Grassmoor Primary School’s Year 6 performance of their Heritage Lottery Funded and Centre for Hidden Histories supported project the ‘Class of 2016 presents the Class of 1916’.

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On the 1st and 2nd July 2016, the Centre for Hidden Histories held its major conference and community showcase, ‘Beyond the Western Front – the Global First World War’, at the Albert Hall Conference Centre, Nottingham.  Timed to coincide with the centenary commemorations of the Somme, the conference featured a diverse range of academics and community groups.  All of the speakers featured were committed to uncovering both the global history of the conflict and some of its ‘hidden’ or less publically discussed histories (click here to access the conference programme and poster).

At the event, participants were surveyed and asked which ‘Hidden History’ they had discovered during the course of the conference.  Of twenty-one responses, a number of clusters were identified. Six people said that they had learnt something new about the Eastern Front, in particular Russia, five people cited learning more about the relationship between the Great War and the Chinese Communist Party, four people commented that they had been given more information on Africa’s role in the conflict, four people cited an increase in their knowledge of India’s contribution. Finally, three people mentioned the significance of learning about the treatment of Germans in Britain during World War I.

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