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When I was carrying out research on the Wipers Times, I came across the following comment, made by the editor Fred Roberts, about their time in Loos: 'Of course, the life was a subterranean one and the cafés, cinemas, etc., were not doing business, but one could go and look at the pile of brick which once was the house …
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Soldiers' alphabets are synonymous with Trench Journals, and there is no shortage of examples, such as the one from the Sprig below. They have been used in support of the argument that trench culture was an export, or continuation, of civilian culture. Whether I agree with that statement is a topic for another day, …
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To use an appropriate idiom for the era, I am currently 'knee-deep' into my PhD, and one casualty from this undertaking has been updating my website. I want to get back into the habit of writing articles for this site regularly, but — as I am sure many a PhD student before has discovered — writing academically all the …
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