About the English Words in War-Tme Project
Alien enemies: the poltics of being frightful
Allies and Enemies: taking sides in the language of war
Andrew Clark: collecting words and history
Austerity Britain: Writing war economy in 1914-15
Babies and “War-babies”: writing language in history in 1914-15
Banned Words: ‘No Treating’ and the Language of war-time prohibition
Being All-British: language and the politics of advertising in WW1
Being under fire: flammenwerfer and liquid fire in 1915
Branded words: On not being German
Cigarettes and Solace: Writing the Comforts of War.
Cutting words: language and the “censor” in WW1.
Cyclists still at war: the carabineer cyclists at the Front.
Definitely not over by Christmas
Fireworks at the Front: Brock’s Benefits
Gas-fighting: from gasphyxiation to gaspirators
“If the caps fits…”. From hats to helmets in Autumn 1915.
Khaki: much more than the sum of its colours
Language as disguise in WWI: the Trojan horse of words
Life-savers. Language and self-protection in early WWI.
Platoon: tracking lexical life beyond the Oxford English Dictionary
Recruits and shirkers: identity politics in the early days of war
Scouts, surveillance, and war in the air
Seeing the invisible foe – keeping the enemy in your sights in early WWI
Shattering the nerves: sound effects in WWI
Shellitis and shell-shock: writing the psychological side-effects of war
So what is this thing called “war” ?
Souvenirs and relics: language, memory, and memorialization in 1914-15
States of Siege: language before “trench warfare”
‘Take me back to Blighty’: the keywords of war in 1915
The bombshells of WW1: women, words, and weapons
The fashion for war: women and language 1914-15.
The lights are going out all over London
“Trench fever”: health, sickness, and the art of having a lousy war
War of Words: Andrew Clark and English Words in War-Time
War on two wheels – the Mechanical Mounted Infantry
Watching change in progress: shrapnel
Watching language change in WW1: on being a dud
Women and the war of words; writing gender identities in autumn 1914
Words and women II: writing gender and identity in early 1915
Words, weapons, and WWI. No.I: Craters, Coal boxes and Jack Johnsons
Words, weapons, and WWI No.2: Woolly bears and whizz-bangs
Words, weapons, and WWI. No.3: Gas! Gas!
Writing the refugee in WW1: language, identity, and use.
Writing war and peace in 1914-15: pacifists, peace-plotters, and peacettes
WW1 and the language of place: from Louvain to the Dardanelles
