In November 2013, Preston Remembers held a conference in partnership with University of Central Lancashire entitled ‘Lancashire and the First World War’. Papers presented explored the themes of recruitment, local identity, the home front, memorialisation and remembrance.
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You can find the Keynote Speaker Presentation Précis and Biography and Collated Abstracts here or links to the speakers contact details below.
First Name
Surname
Paper
Contact
- Charlotte
- Czyzyk
- Lancashire Voices: Exploring First World War testimonies in the IWM Sound Archive
- Alun Edwards
- Edwards
- University of Oxford. Collecting Stories of the First World War: Oxford and Europeana 1914-1918
- John
- Garlington
- Preston’s War Memorial – well worth the long, long trail a winding
- David
- Huggonson
- Loyal Lancashire: The influence and involvement of Lord Derby in Lancashire’s recruitment, 1914-1915.
- Charlie
- MacKeith
- Fleetwood Memorial Park: community engagement, planning and the price of fish
- Dr Annemarie
- McAllister
- ‘A foe far worse than the Germans’: the work of the Lancashire & Cheshire Band of Hope and Temperance Union in the Great War
- Frances
- Morton
- Finding Identities: Lancashire and the First World War
- Nigel
- Neil
- Guides to take visitors through the labyrinths’: First World War training and the public in Blackpool
- Jonathan
- Phillips
- Finding Identities: Lancashire and the First World War, Call for Papers Response
- Martin
- Purdy
- Westfield War Memorial Village: A Study of Survival
- Chris
- Pye
- The Memorial Park Fleetwood Lancashire – Past, Present & Future
- Claire
- Selby
- Remembering and Commemorating the First World War : HLF funded projects in the North West
- Ross
- J. Wilson
- Remembering the Great War in Lancashire: Memory, Narrative and Identity
- Steve
- Williams
- The Chorley Pals – Two Years in the Making