After our funding success with the British Academy, we are incredibly thrilled to now be able to announce that Dr Nadine Muller has also been awarded funding by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) via its Leadership Fellows scheme. These grants are awarded to "research leaders and potential future research leaders" to support [...]

We are excited to announce that Dr Nadine Muller has been awarded a British Academy's Rising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA) to build on the work of the War Widows' Stories project. These awards are granted to "some of the most promising and talented academics in the UK" and "are designed to encourage wider engagement with the humanities [...]

After launching War Widows' Stories a year ago and travelling all over the country to conduct oral history interviews with widows and their children, on 10th November 2017 we hosted a celebration of the project’s achievements to date, its volunteers, and its supporters. The event, held at the Royal British Legion headquarters in London, marked [...]

During the their coverage of the Ceremony of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in London, BBC Radio 4 featured a short interview with War Widows' Stories' volunteer Wendy Hutchinson and producer Helen Lee. Wendy met her husband Tony in 1987, when he was a serving in the British Army. Tony left the Army in 1992, suffering from [...]

You can now purchase your own bound hardcopy of you the first fourteen War Widows' Stories Interviews, thanks to Liverpool John Moores University. Simply head to the LJMU Online Shop, where you can order your copy for £12.90. We do not make a profit from this, and the price exactly covers our production and postage [...]

Now that our first fourteen interviews are available to read and listen to online and to order in print, we wanted to give you an idea of what each of these stories covers. Below, you can find a summary of each interview. Many of them are richly illustrated with photographs and images of letters, telegram, [...]

We are excited to announce that the first fourteen War Widows' Stories interviews are now freely available on our website. Our interviews tell the life stories of war widows and their children. They are intended to raise awareness of war widows' lives and to dispel the myths and stereotypes that currently define war widows' identities [...]

It was almost a year ago that we launched War Widows' Stories live on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour with the aim to start recording and raising awareness of war widows' lives and experiences in Britain. With the help of the War Widows' Association of Great Britain, the Heritage Lottery Fund, and Liverpool John Moores University, since [...]

On 25 January 2017, we organised a training day for our War Widows' Stories volunteer interviewers at London's YHA St Pauls. Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund and to the Oral History Society, our interviewers had the chance to learn about oral history and its roots, as well as becoming familiar with how to conduct [...]

Today, on 12 November 2016 at 12.30PM, members of the War Widows’ Association of Great Britain (WWA), their families, friends, supporters, and guests will gather for the War Widows' Association's Annual Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph. We will meet in King Charles Street at noon to walk the short distance to the Cenotaph, where the [...]