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Professor Lucy Noakes will explore the emotional, social and cultural legacies of the Great War within Britain.

In this talk, jointly hosted between the Lancaster Military Heritage Group and the Department of History at Lancaster University, Professor Lucy Noakes will explore the emotional, social and cultural legacies of the Great War within Britain. Focusing on the rituals that evolved around Armistice Day, and tracing these through the interwar period, she will consider the extent to which these served to provide recognition and comfort for the bereaved. Drawing on memoirs,diaries, Mass Observation material and contemporary press coverage, the talk will map the patterns of commemoration and remembrance against the shifting emotional culture and political climate of the interwar years.

Professor Lucy Noakes is the Rab Butler Chair in Modern History at the University of Essex. Her work focuses on the social and cultural history of warfare in modern Britain, with a particular emphasis on memory, gender, and the civilian experience of total war. She leads the Arts and Humanities Council project 'Reflections on the Centenary of the First World War: Learning and Legacies for the Future' and is completing a book on death, grief and mourning in Second World War Britain.

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