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Family mourning after war and disaster in twentieth-century Britain. (2024)
Book
FOSTER, A.-M. 2024. Family mourning after war and disaster in twentieth-century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191968129.001.0001

Across the twentieth century, after war and disaster, families were left to make sense of deaths of their members, and navigate newfound grief. This book is concerned with those who died in war or disaster in Britain across the first four decades of... Read More about Family mourning after war and disaster in twentieth-century Britain..

Bombardment, public safety and resilience in English coastal communities during the First World War. (2023)
Journal Article
FOSTER, A.-M. 2024. Bombardment, public safety and resilience in English coastal communities during the First World War. Northern history [online], 61(1), pages 155-157. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2276721

Reeve's monograph refreshingly focuses on a new area of British war studies - it uses a local studies lens to explore the coastal towns in the North-East of England and their experiences in the First World War. Reeve compellingly argues that the expe... Read More about Bombardment, public safety and resilience in English coastal communities during the First World War..

The memorial afterlives of online crowdsourcing: "Lives of the First World War" at Imperial War Museums. (2023)
Journal Article
FOSTER, A.-M. and WALLIS, J. 2023. The memorial afterlives of online crowdsourcing: "Lives of the First World War" at Imperial War Museums. Public history review [online], 30, pages 89-104. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v30i0.8048

From May 2014 to March 2019 the Imperial War Museums launched a large-scale digital crowdsourcing project, 'Lives of the First World War'. 'Lives' melded official and unofficial datasets to create an integrated database of people who had participated... Read More about The memorial afterlives of online crowdsourcing: "Lives of the First World War" at Imperial War Museums..

Complicated pasts, promising futures: public history on the island of Ireland. (2023)
Journal Article
FOSTER, A.-M. 2023. Complicated pasts, promising futures: public history on the island of Ireland. Public history review [online], 30, pages 6-14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v30i0.8376

This overview article explores the nature of public history on the island of Ireland, discussing current trends in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Family history and digital history are highly popular ways of engaging with the past, bot... Read More about Complicated pasts, promising futures: public history on the island of Ireland..

How to remember the victims of Covid-19: experiences of the First World War. (2022)
Report
FOSTER, A.-M. 2022. How to remember the victims of Covid-19: experiences of the First World War. Hosted on Policy paper (History & Policy) [online]. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/3hh422kk

When planning memorial events for those who have died during the Covid-19 pandemic, it is important to recognise that the bulk of memorialisation occurs in domestic spaces. The importance of the home in commemoration was recognised by memorial produc... Read More about How to remember the victims of Covid-19: experiences of the First World War..

The bureaucratization of death: the First World War, families, and the state. (2022)
Journal Article
FOSTER, A.-M. 2022. The bureaucratization of death: the First World War, families, and the state. Twentieth century British history [online], 33(4), pages 475-497. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwac001

After the First World War the British state tried to show the families of the dead their thanks, and memorialize the dead, through the two-minute silence and the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. However, before families of deceased servic... Read More about The bureaucratization of death: the First World War, families, and the state..

Commemoration, cult of the fallen (Great Britain and Ireland). (2020)
Other
FOSTER, A.-M. 2020. Commemoration, cult of the fallen (Great Britain and Ireland). In Daniel, U., Gatrell, P., Janz, O., et al. (eds.) 1914-1918-online: international encyclopedia of the First World War [online]. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin. Available from: https://doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.11475

The commemoration of the First World War in Britain and Ireland has a complex history. Immediately after the war, the dead were memorialised in a range of public and private spaces. Next of Kin Memorial Plaques were created by the government, and war... Read More about Commemoration, cult of the fallen (Great Britain and Ireland)..