Dr Helen Brooks, Reader in Theatre and Cultural History in the School of Arts, was interviewed for BBC Radio Kent this week, on the Dominic King Show broadcast on Monday 7 January.

Helen was interviewed about a guided research workshop ‘A Night in the West End’, which will take place on Friday 11 January, to explore the role that London’s West End theatre district played during the First World War.

‘The idea is to bring academics and members of the public who have an interest in the subject together, to see what they can find out using newspapers and old periodicals to discover nuggets of history that have been long forgotten,’ explains Helen in the interview.

Helen is co-investigator on Gateways to the First World War: an AHRC-funded consortium for public engagement with the centenary of the conflict.

The broadcast is available on the BBC site and can be heard approximate 1 hour 22 minutes into the programme.

The workshop is free and open to all: to book a place, please see the Eventbrite link.