Leeds Stories of the Great War

第一次世界大战往往是通过西线战壕经历的镜头来记忆的。利兹大学的“战争遗产1914-1918/2014-18”项目的主要目的是引起人们对战争经验的多样性以及冲突中始终存在的文化、社会和技术遗产的关注，以便扩大其对广泛不同受众的意义。社区参与第一次世界大战遗产的关键方式之一是通过发现当地故事作为一种将战争理解为国际冲突的方式。该项目旨在揭示1914- 1918年战争对居住在其街道、城镇或地区的公民的日常生活、公共政治、社会关系、文化和价值观的影响，战争留下的痕迹、记忆、纪念碑、文件和文化，以及战争期间大量流离失所的人口与不同社会群体、国籍和种族的接触方式。利兹作为一个城市对英国的战争至关重要。它失去的男性人数超过了全国平均水平；同样，作为一个重要的工业中心，利兹的工厂和工业在战争期间为英国军队和平民提供物资方面发挥了不可或缺的作用。利兹居民还在其他方面做出了贡献：利兹家庭接纳了比利时难民；它的医院照顾了成千上万来自英国（以及当时的大英帝国）的受伤士兵；越来越多的剧院、电影院和音乐厅满足了厌倦战争、需要娱乐的人们的需要。今天，在利兹大学、西约克郡档案馆（现位于莫利）和利兹中央图书馆，利兹收藏了伦敦以外最重要的第一次世界大战档案资料。“战争遗产1914- 1918 /2014-18项目”的主要目标之一是促进一种创新的、跨文化的、跨代的方式来纪念第一次世界大战。“利兹大战的故事”旨在通过一系列由利兹代际社区团体（例如，由六年级学生、老年人和前工厂员工组成）与社区协调员、艺术家、当地历史专家和大学学者合作开展的小型联合研究项目，以具体的方式做到这一点。总而言之，这些项目的研究成果将发现战争期间利兹生活的关键方面，这些研究成果将在百年纪念期间以创新的方式向公众广泛开放，并将以数字档案的形式存储给后代。

The First World War is too often exclusively remembered through the lens of trench experiences on the Western Front. A key aim of the project 'Legacies of War 1914-1918/2014-18' at the University of Leeds, from which this project arises, is to draw attention to diversity of experience and of the ever-present cultural, social and technological legacies of the conflict in order to broaden its meaning for a wide range of different audiences. One of the key ways in which communities engage with the heritage of the First World War is through the uncovering of local stories as a way of understanding the war as an international conflict. This project aims to uncover ways in which the war touched the everyday life, communal politics, social relations, culture and values of citizens who inhabited their street, town or region in 1914-18, the traces, memories, monuments, documents and culture it left behind, and the ways in which the mass displacement of populations during the war brought about contact with those of different social groups, nationalities and ethnicities. Leeds as a city was vital to the British war effort. It lost more men than the national average; equally, as a key industrial centre, Leeds factories and industries played an indispensable role in supplying the British troops and civilians during the war. Leeds residents also contributed in other ways: its households took in Belgian refugees; its hospitals cared for thousands of wounded soldiers from Britain (and its then Empire); its growing numbers of theatres, cinemas and music-halls catered for a war-weary population in need of entertainment. Today, in the Liddle Collection, University of Leeds, the West Yorkshire Archives (now in Morley), and Leeds Central Library, Leeds houses the most important collections of archival materials on the First World War outside of London. One of the key aims of the 'Legacies of War 1914-18/2014-18 project' is to facilitate an innovative, cross-cultural and intergenerational approach to the commemoration of the First World War. 'Leeds Stories of the Great War' aims to do this in a concrete way via a series of small co-produced research projects carried out by intergenerational Leeds community groups (consisting, for example, of sixth-formers, older people and former factory employees), collaborating with community facilitators, artists, local history experts and university academics. Taken together, the research findings of these projects will discover key aspects of Leeds life during the war, which will be made widely accessible in innovative ways to the public during the Centenary period, and will be stored in the form of a digital archive for future generations.