World War One

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Woman's Hour Women and the War - a young widow's story Feb 24, 2014

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How a night out to Manchester’s Palace Theatre in 1914 was to change forever the lives of Kitty and her young husband Percy Morter. Looking back, Kitty describes the moment when music hall star Vesta Tilley put her hand on her husband’s shoulder and recruited him to the war effort. The archive interview from 1964 is being made available today through World War One At Home, a BBC and Imperial War Museums partnership. Jane Garvey is joined by Imperial War Museum curator Laura Clouting to talk about the projects. Part of World War One on the BBC. Discover more at bbc.co.uk/ww1

Woman's Hour: Campaign for Nurses' War Memorial Feb 17, 2014

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From BBC Radio 4: During the First and Second World War at least 1700 nurses gave their lives in service, yet there is no official memorial to them. Jenni Murray talks to Yvonne McEwen, a historian at Edinburgh University and a former nurse who is leading a campaign for an official memorial for the nurses who served in the wars.

The Great War of Words, Episode 2 Feb 11, 2014

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From BBC Radio 4 Responsibility for the Great War has been a fierce battle for meaning ever since 1914. Michael Portillo examines how the history of the origins of the Great War and the issue of war guilt has, since 1914, frequently been a fierce battle for meaning with high stakes. Discover more at bbc.co.uk/ww1

Woman's Hour: Changing Woman's Lives Feb 06, 2014

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From BBC Radio 4: How the war shaped the lives of a generation of women. While women in their thousands volunteered for war service and the number of women employed went up by more than a million by 1918, what power did women really achieve outside the home and how lasting was it? Joining Jenni Murray, Baroness Shirley Williams on the war's impact on the generation of her mother, Testament of Youth author Vera Brittain; writer and broadcaster Kate Adie; Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College; and cultural historian Professor Maggie Andrews, University of Worcester. We also hear from Dr Jennian Geddes about the work of doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson who established and ran the only British army hospital staffed entirely by women, treating wounded soldiers. Part of World War One on the BBC. Discover more at bbc.co.uk/ww1

The Great War of Words, Episode 1 Feb 04, 2014

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Michael Portillo reveals how our understanding of the war has been distorted through a century of intellectualising, interpretation and misinterpretation. In this first episode Michael Portillo examines how the German invasion of neutral Belgium in August 1914 transformed Britain's war into a moral cause. Part of World War One on the BBC. Discover more at bbc.co.uk/ww1

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