The Meanings of Military Service website is now available online.
The website has been launched to coincide with the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in August 2014.
The website has been developed as part of a project seeking to create more diverse teaching materials concerning the First World War, which will be a required topic at KS3 in the new National Curriculum. The project involves academics in the selection of primary source material that will both engage students and exemplify complex concepts.
The Meanings of Military Service is a collaborative project led by the History Department and the College Archives, and is sponsored by the Centre for Public Engagement.
Drawing on the College Archives and Barts and the London Hospitals Archives, the website explores key themes of the front line, home front and medicine to identify rich individual stories that exemplify essential ideas about wartime service.
Over the next few months the project team will work with teachers from QMUL’s partner schools, and the Greater London area, to produce lesson plans based around these stories and primary sources. The lesson plans will be published on the website in October 2014 and circulated to participating schools.
The lasting legacies will be these teaching materials, improved connections between the college and its wider surrounding community, and improved understanding of the ways the war is taught.
To find out more about the project email the College Archivist: archives@qmul.ac.uk