All Outputs (3)

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..

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..