Leeds Stories of the Great War

人们对第一次世界大战的记忆往往完全是通过西线战壕经历的透镜来实现的。利兹大学的“战争遗产1914-1918/2014-18”项目的一个关键目标是引起人们对冲突的经验多样性以及始终存在的文化，社会和技术遗产的关注，以扩大其对广泛的不同受众的意义。社区参与第一次世界大战遗产的主要方式之一是通过揭露当地故事，将战争理解为国际冲突。该项目旨在揭示战争如何影响1914- 1918年居住在其街道、城镇或地区的公民的日常生活、社区政治、社会关系、文化和价值观，战争留下的痕迹、记忆、纪念碑、文件和文化，以及战争期间人口大规模流离失所如何与不同社会群体的人接触，民族和种族。利兹作为一个城市对英国的战争努力至关重要。它的伤亡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。利兹的居民还在其他方面做出了贡献：他们的家庭接纳了比利时难民;他们的医院照顾了数千名来自英国（以及当时的大英帝国）的伤兵;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求。今天，在利德尔收藏馆、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一战档案材料。“战争遗产1914-18/2014-18项目”的主要目标之一是促进以创新、跨文化和代际的方式纪念第一次世界大战。“利兹大战的故事”旨在通过一系列由代际利兹社区团体（包括，例如，六年级学生，老年人和前工厂员工）进行的小型联合制作的研究项目，与社区促进者，艺术家，当地历史专家和大学学者合作，以具体的方式做到这一点。总的来说，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提供，并将以数字档案的形式存储下来供后代使用。

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.