
Prof. Catriona Pennell
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Prof. of Modern History & Memory Studies & Director of Research/Impact (HaSS Cornwall), Uni of Exeter. PI/Co-I on various AHRC, BA, GCRF & Leverhulme projects.
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Here’s a video from the first showing of the US National Memorial to World War One by Sabin Howard before it left the Pangolin Foundry in Stroud, UK, and was shipped to D.C. It was a real privilege to see it there. I’m looking forward to seeing it today in its permanent home.


The online launch for Dr Ann-Marie Foster's wonderful new book will be hosted by FWW Studies Society (Account Inactive) on Wednesday this week! There's still plenty of time (and plenty of tickets) left available at our eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…



Look who I’ve managed to persuade to come visit us here University of Exeter, Cornwall! We’re so lucky 🥳

Bookings are now open for this year's Armistice guest lecture! On 14th November, Professor Heather Jones' talk will focus on 'The Forgotten Front? The civilian experience of war in the Mediterranean in the First World War'. Prof H Jones Connecting Research Department of Languages and Cultures at Reading


Last week EdJAM were in Lahore, Pakistan. EdJAM Pakistan Writing Retreat was hosted by Lahore University of Managment Sciences (LUMs) and EdJAM Co-I's Tania Saeed and Sameen. More updates to follow over the next couple of weeks. School of Education | University of Bristol @Molesk Duong Keo





The staff and students of our interdisciplinary department UoE Humanities & Social Sciences Cornwall had the absolute pleasure of hosting Prof. Susan Grayzel today for our Departmental Research Seminar series. She spoke on chemical warfare and international law in the interwar period. Standing room only!


Very pleased to see one of our excellent ECRs Dr Xianan Jin UoE Humanities & Social Sciences Cornwall smashing it with their journal publications!

David Olusoga: 'I think [the job of historians] is to try to stand there at this arsenal of dangerous ideas and to make it more difficult for people to raid that arsenal to use it for their political projects. It is to complicate the picture; it is to show that these simple


Was a lot of fun to spend time with Oh! What a Lovely Podcast (Account Inactive) folk alongside my longstanding comrade A Einhaus to reflect on our work over the past decade. Thanks for having us! UoE Humanities & Social Sciences Cornwall



In the final episode of this series of Talking History, Dr. Tommy Dolan is joined by Prof. Catriona Pennell to discuss the necessity, and challenges, of recovering colonial experiences of the wars. Their conversation focuses on the First and Second World Wars.

Prof. Catriona Pennell Catriona and Tommy reflect upon the way in which notions of race underpinned western thought during these conflicts, instances of colonial resistance, memorialisation, and how colonial participation has been taught in British schools. Listen here: buff.ly/4e1XYbF
