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Narratives of War: My grandfather’s brothers in World War One
Posted on February 12, 2019 Leave a Comment
My Great Grandfather, Albert Coupland, owned a show shop in Belper, Derbyshire, from the 1890s. During World War One three of his sons, my Grandfather’s brothers, fought on the Western Front in World War One. They were all older than my Grandfather (who was born in 1903), and – unusually – they all came back […]
PhD group meeting
Posted on February 11, 2019 2 Comments
Here are my current crop of PhD students. The photograph was taken just after we had our regular monthly meeting. This time with Danai talking about her – to be completed this year – PhD work. Danai has conducted three studies, two interviewing veterans and one interviewing their wives. The focus of the first study […]
Narrative workshop
Posted on January 31, 2019 Leave a Comment
We will be running a narrative workshop on 15 February at the University of Nottingham. The workshop is for people interested in narrative generally and the use of narrative in the healing of trauma and similar problems specifically. The workshop will introduce participants to both post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and narrative and provide practice in […]
National Storytelling week
Posted on January 30, 2019 Leave a Comment
It is national storytelling week. See: https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/national-storytelling-week-2019/. The Society for Storytelling is promoting its mission regarding the promotion of the oral tradition of storytelling, which was the original (?) way in which linguistically competent humans would communicate sophisticated information to each other. In the modern world that oral tradition has been lost. We rarely practice […]
Trauma and the First World War
Posted on January 25, 2019 Leave a Comment
We are currently embarking on a further round of our AHRC-funded research into the First World War. Further information can be found at the Centre for Hidden Histories website (http://hiddenhistorieswwi.ac.uk/). We are conducting a series of workshops around the country (Birmingham, Omagh, Cardiff and Glasgow) to encourage local groups interested in history to develop projects […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 