Lib Com seem to be doing a series on the First World War and have a whole historical book’s worth on the North London anti-war movement. I hope to get time to read it!
Cambridge history professor calls Gove a donkey in The Independent.
The Times reviews Love Letters of the Great War – again – I don’t have time to get the book but it sounds worth a look.
The Guardian on the National Archive and it’s release of tribunal reports of people trying to avoid getting sent to the front. A great many of these were people saying their mother was too ill to be left, or their work was essential to the economy – but those stories are no less fascinating and heart breaking than those who opposed the war itself. The Independent writes on the same story.
Guardian data on Who Were the Conscientious Objectors of the First World War?
nb The Guardian’s tag system for the First World War will probably come in very handy over the next four years.