WW1: Remembering / forgetting

To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, the TLS's History editor David Horspool talks us through books, exhibitions and events that commemorate cataclysmic slaughter and scars that endure to this day; it’s easy to think of privacy invasion as a peculiarly modern phenomenon, but it has its own history dating back to the American Civil War – Sarah Igo tells us more; finally, the food writer Bee Wilson discusses two new cookbooks that capture a “fresh mood of experiment in the kitchen”Works discussedPandora’s Box: A history of the First World War, by Jörn Leonhard (translated by Patrick Camiller)Robert Graves: From Great War poet to ‘Good-Bye to All That’, 1895–1929 by Jean Moorcroft WilsonMaking a New World (across the Imperial War Museum, London, and the Imperial War Museum North)Plus reviews and original pieces published in the TLS, including “What did Tommy read: The complex mental worlds of soldiers on the Western Front” by Bill Bell – go to the-TLS.co.uk for detailsSight Smell Touch Taste Sound:  A new way to cook by Sybil KapoorLateral Cooking by Niki Segnit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.