Activity has been slow on the blog this year, mainly down to the fact that I have spent many hours travelling the country finding World War One Bible stories for a project the Bible Society have been engaged with.
I have found around thirty individual case studies of people for whom the Bible played an important part of their war experience; as combatants, as conscientious objectors and as women serving on the home front and as nurses. Many of those have made it on the the Bible Society microsite here:-
http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-bible-society/our-work/world-war-1/
It has been a pleasure and a privilige to come across such wonderful people from the past as Lilian Hayman, Bert Brocklesby and David Jones. It has also been of invalubale assistance to have some financial assistance towards archival visits.
However, as my next blog post will indicate, it is now time to refocus my efforts on the PhD Thesis about the Christian service personnel of World War Two, of which more later...
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