This week (7th -9th March) our heritage partner and all-round great bunch of guys at Hull History Centre will be hosting an exhibition commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the bombing of the National Picture Theatre (NPT). Admission is free and from 10am-noon there’s an opportunity to share your wartime family history. The NPT holds a Read More…
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A Review of our First Year and Where We go Next
As many of you who have helped out on the project might know the Half Life of the Blitz is a two-year project, so a little over a year in it’s perhaps time to take stock of what we’ve done and where the project might go from here on in. The project was always designed Read More…
History of Hull: Walking in Hull Pt.2 – A North East Coast Town
In this blog post our project leader Dr James Greenhalgh explores more findings from our ‘walking workshops’ and interrogates the notion of Hull as a ‘forgotten city’ – referred to only as a ‘North East Coast Town’ and eclipsed from popular memory of the Second World War. Of all the memories and points of interest Read More…
History of Hull: Walking with our Volunteers pt.1 – Chicken George & Old Mother Riley
On 22nd November we held our first workshop for the project, which involved getting a group of volunteers together at Hull History Centre for a range of activities. These activities are part of the research design of the Half Life of the Blitz project and involve shaping the project’s focus around a collection of Read More…
History of Hull: Max Lock and the Hull Regional Survey
Anybody who has lived or worked in Hull will almost certainly be familiar with the claim that Hull was forgotten about after the Second World War, despite its exceptionally heavy bomb damage for a city of its size. Against a national memory of the Home Front that has a great deal to say about the Read More…
History of Hull: Ferensway
In this series of blog posts James and Charlotte are going to be looking at some of the interesting projects and developments that have occurred in Hull during the twentieth century as a means to stimulate debate around the urban history of Hull. This first post concerns arguably Hull Corporation’s first really bold scheme to Read More…
Welcome to the Half Life of the Blitz
Welcome to the Half Life of the Blitz, an AHRC-funded project run by James Greenhalgh and Charlotte Tomlinson from the University of Lincoln. We are looking for volunteers to participate in the project, so please look at Aims and our Contact page to get in touch with us if you are interested in participating in Read More…