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Mentioned in Dispatches

Mentioned in Dispatches

By: Dr Tom Thorpe
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A podcast hosted by Dr Tom Thorpe on all aspects of the Great War from the UK's leading First World War history society The Western Front Association (www.westernfrontassociation.com).© 2017-2024 Tom Thorpe Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • Ep379 – The memorial to the US 42nd Division – Dr Monique B. Seefried
    38 mins
  • Ep378 – Guards Division, 1915-17 – David Griffith
    41 mins
  • Ep377 – Administration of Death – Kelsey Moriarty
    Feb 15 2026

    In this episode of the Western Front Association’s Mentioned in Dispatches, Kelsey Moriarty examines the bureaucratic and cultural processes that reshaped grief during and after the First World War. Her thesis Kafka in the Trenches: Death, Bureaucracy, and the Written Record in Britain 1914–1920 explores how official letters, forms and memorials affected the experience of mourning. From government notices of death to the rise of street shrines, her research highlights how state systems collided with private grief and altered the citizen–state relationship.

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    27 mins
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