Author Archives: Pierre Purseigle

Lecturer in History
University of Birmingham

Future Wars, Imagined Wars: Towards a Cultural History of the pre-1914 Period

Conference organized by the Centre International de Recherche de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre,
in association with the German Historical Institute, Paris and the Institut Universitaire de France
and the participation of the Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham.

9-10 November 2011, Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne (France)

John Horne, ed. A Companion to World War I

A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history.

* Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who analyze the current state of historical scholarship on the First World War
* Provides extensive coverage spanning the pre-war period, the military conflict, social, economic, political, and cultural developments, and the war’s legacy
* Offers original perspectives on themes as diverse as strategy and tactics, war crimes, science and technology, and the arts

Gallipoli: a ridge too far, 5–6 August 2010, Canberra (AUS)

In August 2010, the Australian War Memorial will convene an international conference to mark the 95th anniversary of the climactic battles of the Gallipoli campaign. In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches on Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of assaults in an all-out attempt to break the deadlock [...]

World War I and the Modern World, Moscow, 26-27 May 2010

A conference organized and sponsored by
International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences (IIUEPS Academy)
Russian Association of World War I Historians (RAWWH)
Russian State Historical Museum
Russian State Archive of Military History
Polish Academy of Sciences’ Permanent Representative at the Russian Academy of Sciences
Tibbits Historical Foundation (USA)
The Moscow International Conference “World War I and [...]

Book Review: Men of Mont St. Quentin: Between Victory and Death

Tim Cook’s review of Peter Stanley’s Men of Mont St. Quentin: Between Victory and Death.

La Première Guerre mondiale en Amérique Latine

Voici deux textes consacrés à la Première Guerre mondiale en Amérique Latine par Olivier Compagnon, maître de conférences à l’Université de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle et membre de notre Société.

‘Si loin, si proche…’ La Première Guerre mondiale dans la presse argentine et brésilienne
Entrer en guerre? Neutralité et engagement de l’Amérique latine entre 1914 et 1918

Call for Submissions: First World War Studies

First World War Studies, the journal of the International Society of First World War Studies, is pleased to announce its first call for submissions.

Présence de la Grande Guerre

Un dossier de la Vie des Idées où le débat historiographique français se poursuit…
http://www.laviedesidees.fr/+-La-Grande-Guerre-toujours-presente-+.html
1. Traces de 14-18
À propos de : S. Audoin-Rouzeau & G. Krumeich, Cicatrices, Tallandier.
par Élise Julien
2. La guerre des profiteurs et des embusqués
À propos de : F. Bouloc, Les [...]

The First World War in the news – June 2008

The Blitz of 1918
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Baldwin’s pessimism was based on a crucial – but often overlooked – episode in the First World War that was to influence decisively the course of the Second …
Art that brings life to the Leas
Financial Times – London,England,UK
Christian Boltanski picked up on the [...]

‘Remember Belgium’ – Poetry as Propaganda during the First World War

Kluge Fellow, Geert Buelens, presents Remember Belgium – Poetry as Propaganda during the First World War, 17 July at 12:00 in Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress. This talk will address the use of poetry as propaganda, using First World War poems about Belgium by poets  …
Contact: lckluge@loc.gov
URL: www.loc.gov/loc/kluge//news/news2008.html#buelens