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About Lucy Noakes

Lucy Noakes lectures in History at the University of Brighton, where she runs the BA (Hons) Humanities: War, Conflict and Modernity and the MA in Histories and Cultures and is a founding member of the centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories. She writes and researches in the fields of 20th century war, memory and gender and her publications include ‘war and the British’ (1998) and ‘Women and the British Army’ (2006). She is currently working on projects examining online memories of the Second World War in Britain and on the experience and memory of grief in wartime.

Articles by Lucy Noakes

The politics of poppy day

Following the threatened demonstration of Islam4UK in Wootton Bassett, Lucy Noakes explores the fraught history of war remembrance. The article launches Lest we forget: remembering historic conflicts, openSecurity’s new editorial project in association with History & Policy, asking historians to reflect on wars gone by and the light they shed on present conflicts.
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