Princess Elizabeth in Wartime

Reappraising the First World War seminar series

15 May 2012

4pm-5.30pm
Upper Board Room

Summer term 2012: The Middle East and Africa

Chair: Suzanne Bardgett (Department of Research, IWM)

The First World War and the shaping of the Middle East:

Alan Wakefield (IWM) - From Basra to Baghdad and beyond: the changing nature of warfare in Mesopotamia 1914-1918

Dr Catriona Pennell (University of Exeter) - No Way Out: Reverend Harold Spooner and Non-Combatant Experience of the Siege of Kut-Al-Amara, 1915-1916

Dr Eugene Rogan (St Antony’s College, Oxford) - Neutral Diplomacy: The US Consular Service in Baghdad and Basra during the First World War

Suitable for: Academics

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These seminars are open to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from across the UK. The seminar is free but booking is essential. Please email research@iwm.org.uk to reserve a place at this event.