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http://www.black-history.org.uk/pavilionindian.asp and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Indian-Voices-Great-War-1914-1918/dp/0333751450/ref=tmm_pap_title_0 Sent from my iPad On 26 Sep 2013, at 19:18, dick hunter <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear All > > See below. Contributions by Suzanne Bardgett, Richard Smith and Mandy Banton especially relevant to Rosie Sherrington's query. > > Dick Hunter > BALH FWW centennial coordinator, and joint workshop organiser. > > > > British Association for Local History (BALH)/University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) workshop: > > Experiences of World War One: strangers, differences and locality on 28 February 2014 at Senate House, University of London. > > We are connected to the First World War through our family and community histories, and through the war's impact on British and other societies. The war provided opportunities to go to new places, engage in different activities and meet people not encountered in peacetime. What were people's experiences of different places, living under different conditions, and how did they engage with different cultures? > > This is an introduction to researching war experience and its legacy: taking individual, family and community perspectives through the prism of the local, national and international. It will raise questions such as: > > > > how did local communities interact with colonial and Dominion troops? in what ways did racial issues impact on local community relations during the war, and in its aftermath? what relationships evolved between communities, hospitals where colonial/Dominion troops were treated and individual soldiers? how might the war's legacy be informed by ethnic minority histories? during the war years, and after, how was the idea of Empire experienced, understood and imagined by people in British localities? to what extent did war change European colonial victors' views of their extended Empires? > > > > Themes will be illustrated by reference to sources such as newspapers, local authority records, diaries, correspondence, Imperial War Museum archives, The National Archives and websites. > > > > PROGRAMME > > > > 10.00 registration, and coffee/tea > > > > 10:30 welcome and introduction: Professor Philip Murphy, Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS). > > > > 10:45 keynote: The relationship of locality to national and international events in the First World War. Dr Catriona Pennell (Exeter) > > > > 11:30 Local responses to 'the other': 1. Whose remembrance? a study of available research on communities in Britain, and the colonial experience of the First World War. Dr Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War Museum) 2. Responses to Black and Indian soldiers in Britain. Dr Richard Smith (Goldsmiths, University of London) > > > > 13:00 lunch > > > > 14:00 Localities, nations and Empire: Britain and Ireland in times of crisis, 1912-1922. > > Professor David Killingray (Goldsmiths, University of London; and ICwS) > > > > 15.00 Using The National Archives colonial records. Dr Mandy Banton (ICwS), > > > > 15.45 final discussion, and tea. > > > > For flyer, further details and registration: > > > > http://events.sas.ac.uk/icws/events/view/14049 > > > > Dick Hunter > > BALH FWW centennial coordinator > > > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:34:04 +0100 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Black and Asian presence in World War 1 > To: [log in to unmask] > > Hello, > > I am just wondering if you could point me to any resources that you know of about Black and Asian presence in the First World War, and more importantly, any hopes or concerns that you have for the representation of ethnic and religious diversity in the forthcoming 2014 commemorations. > > > > > Rosie Sherrington > > Senior Social Inclusion and Diversity Adviser > > Government Advice > > English Heritage > > 1 Waterhouse Square, 138-142 Holborn > > London > > EC1N 2ST > Tel +44 (0) 20 7973 3167 > > [log in to unmask] > > www.english-heritage.org.uk > > P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to > > > > Keep in touch with English Heritage on: Twitter | Facebook | Flickr | YouTube | Vimeo > > > > > > This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of English Heritage unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system and notify the sender immediately. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it. Any information sent to English Heritage may become publicly available. > > Portico: your gateway to information on sites in the National Heritage Collection; have a look and tell us what you think. > http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/archives-and-collections/portico/