Legacies of War

  • Leeds Pals
    1915 In response to Lord Kitcher’s call for volunteers, Leeds solicitor Colonel Walter Stead suggested a city battalion. A recruiting office was located on City Square, this illuminated tram was one of the means used to draw attention to the campaign
  • The badly shelled main road to Bapaume through Pozieres, showing a communication trench and broken trees
    The badly shelled main road to Bapaume through Pozieres, showing a communication trench and broken trees
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    British Vickers machine gun crew wearing PH-type anti-gas helmets. Near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916. The gunner is wearing a padded waistcoat, enabling him to carry the machine gun barrel.
  • At 3850m, the highest trench in the history of the first world war
    Austro-hungarian trench at the peak of Ortler (Alps) during the first world war 1917 – At 3850m, the highest trench in the history of the first world war
  • Armlet with Red Cross, BEF field dressings, canvas bag with medical equipment and ampoules of German medicines. Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library
    Armlet with Red Cross, BEF field dressings, canvas bag with medical equipment and ampoules of German medicines. Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library
  • Items from the Cameronian Regiment (3rd Battalion Scottish Rifles) Uniform Dress, including sporran, kilt and tartan underpants, belonging to William Petrie Watt. Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library
    Items from the Cameronian Regiment (3rd Battalion Scottish Rifles) Uniform Dress, including sporran, kilt and tartan underpants, belonging to William Petrie Watt. Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library
  • Display of seven silk patches representing aspects of women’s war work. Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library
    Display of seven silk patches representing aspects of women’s war work. Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library
  • Selection of trench items including flask, mess tin, trench periscope, message container for pigeon, sewing (housewife) kit and trench name board. Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library
    Selection of trench items including flask, mess tin, trench periscope, message container for pigeon, sewing (housewife) kit and trench name board. Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library
  • ‘Adolphus’, a toy dog given to Major Maurice Le Blanc Smith by a French girl & used as a mascot in his flying missions in France; an abandoned French school exercise book found by a British soldier. Liddle Collection
    ‘Adolphus’, a toy dog given to Major Maurice Le Blanc Smith by a French girl & used as a mascot in his flying missions; an abandoned French school exercise book found by a British soldier. Liddle Collection

Legacies of War at the University of Leeds is a First World War Centenary project for 2014-2018. The project will work with people and organisations in Leeds, the UK and internationally to explore the legacy of the First World War. For more information, see the About Us page, or email Kate Vigurs, the Legacies of War project officer on E.K.Vigurs@leeds.ac.uk

Recent News

  • The First World War in the Classroom

    The First World War in the Classroom: Researchers want to hear from you! In mid-June 2013 an important new survey will be launched that seeks to establish secondary teachers’ views (in English Literature and History) about the way the First World War is taught. This kind of survey has never been undertaken before. In the light of the forthcoming centenary commemorations, it is of vital importance in helping to understand the way young people interpret this seminal event in British and global history. For more information – and to register your interest in completing the survey – please visit the project website at http://ww1intheclassroom.exeter.ac.uk

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  • Lives of the First World War

    On the 14th May the Imperial War Museum announced a new contribution to the rapidly expanding number of initiatives intended to commemorate the centenary of the 1914-18 war. A part of that process is to be provided by Leeds University's Cyril Pearce.

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Events

  • 28th June, 9.00am — 4.30pm: Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War Workshop

    Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War: A workshop for museum interpreters, archivists and historians Supported by the AHRC-funded project: Innovating in Combat: telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War Centre for History & Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, in partnership with the Museum of History of Science, University of Oxford, Friday 28 June 2013 9am – 4.30pm Please send all enquiries to Elizabeth Bruton E.m.bruton@leeds.ac.uk

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    28th July (all day): Weetwood Hall conference

    A conference, organised by Dr Peter Liddle, will take place at Weetwood Hall, Leeds, 28th July - 1st August 2014. For a programme and details of events and conference fees see http://www.weetwood.co.uk/firstworldwar/

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