07 - Musical entertainment in the British Armed Forces during the Great War (1914-1918)

In this episode, Iva Jelušić and Emma Hanna talk about wartime entertainment and recreation in the British Armed Forces during the First World War. The focus of the conversation is on the relevance of musical activities to rank-and-file soldiers and their impact on soldiers’ morale and well-being. Emma Hanna is a lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Kent in Great Britain. On related topics she has published several articles and book chapters as well as two monographs, The Great War on the Small Screen: Representing the First World War in Contemporary Britain in 2009 and Sounds of War, Music in the British Armed Forces during the Great War in 2020. Iva Jelušić is a Post-Doctoral Researcher for the “War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience” project at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. Read more about the cover image for Emma's book, Sounds of War, and why she chose it in the WarFun visual archive.