Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures

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2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the First World War, whose war dead still cascade down the north wall of the entrance to Christ Church Cathedral, and which continues to haunt the imagination of contemporary Britons, shaping our views of armed force, of authority, and of patriotism. This lecture series looks at aspects of the First World War. Sponsored by the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life, and Christ Church Cathedral

“If you do not want to see God’s hand in everything, even in the most unbearable, you are lost.” Experiencing the First World War Alongside Kaiser Wilhelm II

March 4, 2014

Leeds University's Professor of Central European History, editor of An Improbable War?The Outbreak of World War I and European Politicsl Culture befor...

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The War and English Religion

February 25, 2014

Merton College's Tutor in History, an historian of 20th century Britain, argues that English Christianity survived the First World War rather better t...

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1914–1918: Was Britain Right to Fight?

February 13, 2014

The Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, Canon of Christ Church, and author of In Defence of War (2013) analyses Britain's belligerency in...

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Victorious Donkeys? British Generals and Generalship of the First World War Reconsidered

February 11, 2014

The Professor of War Studies at Wolverhampton University, a leading British military historian of the First World War, explodes some myths about Briti...

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Accident or Choice? The Outbreak of the First World War

February 3, 2014

The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The War that En...

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