WW1: Remembering / forgetting

Published: Nov. 8, 2018, 12:01 a.m.

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To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, the TLS\'s History editor David Horspool talks us through books, exhibitions and events that commemorate cataclysmic slaughter and scars that endure to this day; it\\u2019s easy to think of privacy invasion as a peculiarly modern phenomenon, but it has its own history dating back to the American Civil War \\u2013 Sarah Igo tells us more; finally, the food writer Bee Wilson discusses two new cookbooks that capture a \\u201cfresh mood of experiment in the kitchen\\u201d


Works discussed

Pandora\\u2019s Box: A history of the First World War, by J\\xf6rn Leonhard (translated by Patrick Camiller)

Robert Graves: From Great War poet to \\u2018Good-Bye to All That\\u2019, 1895\\u20131929 by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Making a New World (across the Imperial War Museum, London, and the Imperial War Museum North)

Plus reviews and original pieces published in the TLS, including \\u201cWhat did Tommy read: The complex mental worlds of soldiers on the Western Front\\u201d by Bill Bell \\u2013 go to the-TLS.co.uk for details

Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound:  A new way to cook by Sybil Kapoor

Lateral Cooking by Niki Segnit



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