{"id":1315,"date":"2020-06-30T09:34:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T08:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2020-06-30T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T08:34:43","slug":"meet-the-historians-dr-emma-hanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/06\/30\/meet-the-historians-dr-emma-hanna\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Historians: Dr Emma Hanna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next up in our departmental Q&A series is Dr Emma Hanna<\/a>, a School of History graduate and expert on the First World War and its memory. Emma previously worked on two major AHRC-funded projects: Gateways to the First World War<\/a> and Reflections on the Centenary of the First World War<\/a>. Here Emma discusses what drew her to this field and her brand new book.<\/em><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your role in the School of History?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lecturer in Modern British History\u00a0and Director of Postgraduate Recruitment and Admissions for History.<\/p>\n

What led you to become a historian of war and memory?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the early 2000s I did my undergraduate final year special subject on the contemporary memory of the First World War. I became fascinated by the ways in which historical memory can be twisted by political and cultural forces, creating myths and legends about the past which can stick fast in the stories societies tell themselves.<\/p>\n

What are you currently researching?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I recently published my second book, Sounds of War: Music in the British Armed Forces During the Great War<\/a> <\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2020). Books take long to research, write and publish so I am having a little pause before jumping into the next one on servicemen\u2019s experiences of cinema during the First World War.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best book in your field you\u2019ve read recently?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I very much enjoyed Chris Kempshall\u2019s British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914\u20131918 <\/em><\/a>(Palgrave, 2019).<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the most common misconception about your field?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That we hate the war poets of 1914-18. Also, that we spend all our time watching war films.<\/p>\n

What advice would you give a budding historian?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read, listen, discuss, and read some more \u2013 you will never know everything.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favourite module to teach?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m very much looking forward to teaching my new second year module ‘Telegraph to Television: War and the British Media, 1853-1945’<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 those early war correspondents were a colourful bunch!<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best part about being a member of the University of Kent\u2019s School of History?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a professional yet friendly environment. Everyone is exceptionally good at their jobs, but they are also genuinely decent human beings.<\/p>\n

If you could have dinner with one person from the past, who would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a very unfair question to put to an historian! Probably the Duke of Windsor, the former Edward VIII. He would have some tales to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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