Trench Newspapers in WWI – Lecture Thurs Jan 22 ’15

Trenches, Women, Jokes, and the Enemy: German, British, and French Soldier Newspapers during the First World War

The 2015 Charles Johnson Memorial Lecture presented by Prof. Robert L. Nelson (University of Windsor, Canada)

This lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held at 4pm in the UT’s Haslam Business Building, Room 303. For more information visit the Center for Study of War & Society‘s webpage.

Some of Robert L. Nelson’s research on First World War newspapers:

  • Nelson, Robert L.: German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War, Cambridge 2011: Cambridge University Press.
  • Nelson, Robert L.: Soldier newspapers: a useful source in the social and cultural history of the First World War and beyond, in: War in History 17/2, 2010, pp. 167-191.

Click on the image below to explore the section on Soldier Newspapers that Prof. Nelson contributed to the International Encyclopedia of the First World War.

EncycWWI