Dave, one of the speakers at our ‘Digitizing The War Illustrated’ launch, has kindly sent a link to the wonderful Museum Crush website: https://museumcrush.org/ Among the blog posts on various aspects of museums, we were especially struck by a blog post connected to the Museum of Doncaster. This was about Freda Hooper, a child entertainer and fundraiser during World War…
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‘Digitizing The War Illustrated’ Progress Day Roundup
Our Progress Day gave previous participants the chance to extend their research, as well as a few newcomers the opportunity to explore the archive of The War Illustrated. An entirely new topic explored was a popular myth. Very early in the war, in August of 1914, the Battle of Mons occurred. While British troops were outnumbered by German soldiers at…
Third ‘Digitizing The War Illustrated’ Workshop Roundup
While our third workshop covered various areas, I’d like to focus on one specific aspect – our researching of Noel Whittles. We were very pleased that news of our project prompted Noel’s grandson, David Burrows, to contact us. David told us that Noel, who was also an artist, served in the army during World War I. David was interested to…