Programme: Beyond the Western Front – The Global First World War

Friday 1 July 2016
Time	Title	Presenter (s)
9.15–9.30am	Registration
9.30–9.40am	Welcome	John Beckett
9.40–11am	Panel 1 and Q&A
	The Maharajas' Contribution to the First World War	Tony Mclenaghan
	Honouring VC Indian Soldiers in World War One	Kiran Sahota
	Empire, Faith and War: The Sikhs and World War One	UK Punjab Heritage Association
11–11.20am	Coffee break
11.20–1pm	Panel 2 and Q&A
	Hidden Voices from Empire and War: Perspectives of colonised people on World War One	Kirit Patel
	An English Nurse at the Russian Front	Samraghni Bonnerjee
	A Clash of Imperialisms: Russian-British Mutual Perceptions during the Allied Intervention in North Russia, 1918–19	Nick Baron
	POWs and Trans-National Encounter in Revolutionary Russia: An Initial Exploration	Alistair Dickins
1–1.30pm	Lunch
1.30–2.30pm	Workshop: Documents in The National Archives	Iqbal Husain
2.30–3.30pm	90-minute workshop, to include PowerPoint presentation, video case studies, interactive discussions and handouts	The Race Equality Centre
3.30–4.30pm	Workshop: Patriotism on the Russian Empire’s home front	Catherine Danks
4.30–5pm	Coffee break
5–6pm	Workshop: Cultures of Remembrance: Making People Visible	Rosie Collins

Saturday 2 July 2016
Time	Title	Presenter (s)
8.45–9am	Registration
9–9.20am	Welcome	John Beckett
9.20–10.15am	Panel 3 and Q&A
	British policy towards oil in the Middle East: laying the foundations for security and a strong economic future	Graham Kay
	How women in Nottingham responded to the end of the First World War	Val Wood
10.15–10.55am	Panel 4 and Q&A
	Hidden Strangers Project Review	Natalie Braber
	Heritage Lottery Fund Project Review	Izzy Mohammed
10.55–11.05am	Coffee break
11.05–1pm	Panel 5 and Q&A
	Africa's War	Anne Samson
	The British Army, the First World War, enlistment, conscription and 'race'	Phil Vasili
	The London Connection	Kurt Barling
	Recognize Online	Garry Stewart
1–1.30pm	Lunch
1.30–2.50pm	Panel 6 and Q&A
	Sikh memorial culture of the First World War in the UK	Amerdeep Panesar
	The direct link between the Great War and the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, and so the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949	Steve Lau
	The First World War contribution of Dulmial village, Pakistan	Irfan Malik
	The contribution of camp followers and non-combatants from undivided India and Nepal	Eleanor Harding
2.50–3.05pm	Coffee break
3.05–4.50pm	Panel 7 and Q&A
	Hidden Strangers	Natalie Braber
	Knockaloe	Panikos Panayi
	The Domiciled ‘Other’ as Enemy Alien: Leeds and the Alien Register, 1914–1919	David Stowe
	Sounding Out the Archive: The Engländerlager Ruhleben and its Imperial Legacies	Claudia Sternberg
4.50pm	Close

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