In recent months, I've been working on two co-authored book chapters for edited collections. Each has been a very different experience, but both have been wonderful exercises in approaching my own research interests with a wider lens - bringing an international view to my own British history research. With Dr Glen O'Hara (my former PhD …
Christmas in Changi Gaol
Whenever a subject takes my interest, one of the first things I do is take a look at the relevant entries in the wonderful Wellcome Images collection online. Browsing their seasonal images, I came across these hand-painted Christmas cards from 1944. In themselves they are pleasant but nothing special, but two things about them struck …
Charity and the First World War
Originally posted on the VAHS blog 29 April 2013 How do we remember the First World War? And what do historians make of how we remember it? Both of these things have been constantly renegotiated over that past century since the lamps went out across Europe, and they show no signs of slowing down as …