An International Leverhulme Trust Project

Third International Conference

APPROACHING WAR: EUROPE

Newcastle University, UK, 16-17 March, 2013

This is the third of three conferences aimed at producing a website and edited collections to provide teachers, academics, and the interested public with a rich and diverse resource of materials on childhood, children’s culture and children’s literature in the period 1890-1919. The searchable website will consist of video recordings of the conference papers, backed up by summaries, images, links and bibliographies; the published volumes will contain expanded versions of the conference papers. This international conference focuses on childhood cultures in Britain prior to and during the First World War. It also brings together the work emerging from the previous two conferences, taking stock of some of the outcomes of this three-year project and exploring some future ways forward for research on childhood and the First World War.

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