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Oh! What a lovely podcast

Oh! What a lovely podcast

Auteur(s): The WW1 History Team
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 A history podcast discussing various cultural genres which reference the First World War, including detective fiction, Star Wars and death metal music, and ask why the First World War has particular popular cultural relevance.© The WW1 History Team Monde Sciences sociales
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  • 61 - War-Time In Our Street

    61 - War-Time In Our Street
    Sep 1 2025
    In this episode of Oh! What a Lovely Podcast, Angus, Chris, Jessica, and returning guest Ann-Marie Einhaus discuss War-Time in Our Street by J. E. Buckrose. Set in a fictional Yorkshire village, these stories capture everyday resilience, humour, and quiet courage — from blackout chapel services and food shortages to romances and small acts of kindness amid wartime hardships. Buckrose, the pen name of Annie Edith Jameson, was a prolific writer who produced more than forty novels exploring domestic life and family tensions with gentle humour. War-Time in Our Street offers a fascinating glimpse of how ordinary people became part of the wider war effort. References
    JE Buckhouse, WarTime In Our Street (1917)
    – Down Our Street
    Dorothy Whipple, High Wages (1930)
    Dad’s Army (1968-1977)
    Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell, and David Trotter, Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction (1997)
    Sapper, Sergeant Michael Cassidy RE (1915)
    Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion (2022)
    Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995)
    - Shrines of Gaiety (2022)
    Angela Brazil
    Eden Phillpotts, The Humand Boy and the War (1919)
    Jesse Pope
    Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs (1912)
    Ann-Marie Einhaus & Barbara Korte, The Penguin Book of First World War Stories: From Arthur Machen to Julian Barnes (2007)
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    46 min
  • 60 - The Boy I Loved

    60 - The Boy I Loved
    Aug 1 2025

    What do young adults think of First World War fiction aimed at them?

    In this episode of Oh What a Lovely Podcast, we hand the mic to a group of young readers to hear their thoughts on The Boy I Loved by William Hussey, a novel exploring the impact of war on love, identity and loss. After their thoughtful reviews, Chris, Jessica and Angus reflect on the responses and what they reveal about how the war is understood today.
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    53 min
  • 59 - The Great War and Modern Memory at 50

    59 - The Great War and Modern Memory at 50
    Jul 1 2025

    What makes a 50-year-old book on WWI still essential reading?

    In this episode, Angus, Jessica, and Chris are joined by Ian Isherwood and Steven Trout, authors of But It Still Goes On: Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory at 50. We revisit Fussell’s classic, exploring its legacy, impact, and the debates it continues to spark in the world of war literature and memory studies.

    References:
    Ian Isherwood and Steven Trout, But it Still Goes On: Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory at 50, The Journal of Military History
    Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
    --- Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
    --- Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
    --- Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic
    Frederic Manning, Her Privates We
    Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
    Max Ploughman, A Subaltern on the Somme
    Robert Graves, Goodbye To All That
    Dan Todman, The Great War: Myth and Memory
    RC Sherriff, Journey’s End
    Samuel Hynes, A War Imagined
    Charles Edmonds, A Subaltern's War
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    48 min
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