London and the First World War

Session 7: Leisure

Institute of Historical Research London and the First World War Session 7: Leisure Memory, work, and leisure in London during the First World War Ruth Percy (Ruskin College, Oxford) Chelsea FC and its urban fight against calls to abandon professional football in England during the First World War Assaf Mond (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) 'Everyone is at once in Leicester Square': importing London to the Front Rachel Richardson (Independent Scholar) As part of events to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History is organising a major conference that will explore the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affected by, and involved with, the 1914-18 conflict. For the first time London was effectively on the front line, subject to aerial bombing and surveillance, whilst its streets, buildings and spaces were shaped by the needs of mass mobilisation, supply and defence. The war had an impact upon everyday life in the capital in other ways too, including the economy, governance, standards of living, culture, leisure, the physical environment and social life.

Session 5: Dissent

Institute of Historical Research London and the First World War Session 5: Dissent Caroline Playne in wartime London Richard Espley (Senate House Library) Recruitment, relief and reform. The impact of the First World War on the Anglican Church in London Linda Parker (Independent Scholar) East London Federation of Suffragettes during the First World War Sarah Jackson (Independent Scholar) As part of events to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History is organising a major conference that will explore the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affected by, and involved with, the 1914-18 conflict. For the first time London was effectively on the front line, subject to aerial bombing and surveillance, whilst its streets, buildings and spaces were shaped by the needs of mass mobilisation, supply and defence. The war had an impact upon everyday life in the capital in other ways too, including the economy, governance, standards of living, culture, leisure, the physical environment and social life.

Session 6: Air War

Institute of Historical Research London and the First World War Session 6: Air War The men who bombed London: British interrogations of captured Zeppelin aircrew Roderick Bailey (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford) London and the aircraft manufacturing industry Nina Hadaway (RAF Museum) As part of events to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History is organising a major conference that will explore the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affected by, and involved with, the 1914-18 conflict. For the first time London was effectively on the front line, subject to aerial bombing and surveillance, whilst its streets, buildings and spaces were shaped by the needs of mass mobilisation, supply and defence. The war had an impact upon everyday life in the capital in other ways too, including the economy, governance, standards of living, culture, leisure, the physical environment and social life.

Plenary Lecture 2

Institute of Historical Research London and the First World War Plenary Lecture 2 London in the First World War: questions of legacy Jerry White (Birkbeck, University of London) As part of events to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History is organising a major conference that will explore the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affected by, and involved with, the 1914-18 conflict. For the first time London was effectively on the front line, subject to aerial bombing and surveillance, whilst its streets, buildings and spaces were shaped by the needs of mass mobilisation, supply and defence. The war had an impact upon everyday life in the capital in other ways too, including the economy, governance, standards of living, culture, leisure, the physical environment and social life.

Session 3: Communications and Transport

Institute of Historical Research London and the First World War Session 3: Communications and Transport London, public transport, and the First World War Simon Abernethy (Cambridge) The dilemmas of a London railway in wartime: the Metropolitan Railway, 1914-18 Richard Dennis (University College London) Between Home and Front during the First World War: women war workers in the streets and railway stations of London Krisztina Robert (Roehampton) As part of events to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History is organising a major conference that will explore the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affected by, and involved with, the 1914-18 conflict. For the first time London was effectively on the front line, subject to aerial bombing and surveillance, whilst its streets, buildings and spaces were shaped by the needs of mass mobilisation, supply and defence. The war had an impact upon everyday life in the capital in other ways too, including the economy, governance, standards of living, culture, leisure, the physical environment and social life.