{"id":70,"date":"2014-06-27T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/srfb\/?p=70"},"modified":"2014-06-27T17:53:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T17:53:58","slug":"brief-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/2014\/06\/27\/brief-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before plunging back into 1914 centenary activities I finally had an extended period of work back on Fairey, with a fair old chunk of chapter one now written &#8211; my man is just about to commence his premium apprenticeship at Jandus, a company in Holloway that manufactured arc lights under licence from America, with complementary training at Finsbury Technical College &#8211; of which more in a later blog.\u00a0 When not chronicling CRF&#8217;s early life (helped by an illuminating conversation with Jane Tennant last Tuesday afternoon), I have contributed to a sixthform conference on the Great War and chaired a session at the impressive international conference organised by my colleague Professor Mark Cornwall: &#8216;Sarajevo 1914: Spark and Impact&#8217; &#8211; scheduled to coincide with the exact centenary of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand&#8217;s fatal visit to Bosnia; and before that\u00a0delivered my inaugural lecture on the soldier-poet, Keith Douglas &#8211; given on the seventieth anniversary of his death south of Bayeux on 9 June 1944.\u00a0 The lecture spawned an article on Douglas in the <em>New Statesman<\/em>, and was recorded &#8211; for\u00a0article or recording I suggest turning to Google as shameless self-promotion can only go so far.\u00a0 All of these activities deserve more extended &#8211; and suitably scholarly &#8211; comment, but regrettably at this precise moment I don&#8217;t have the time.\u00a0 Can a blog in itself constitute work-in-progress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before plunging back into 1914 centenary activities I finally had an extended period of work back on Fairey, with a fair old chunk of chapter one now written &#8211; my man is just about to commence his premium apprenticeship at Jandus, a company in Holloway that manufactured arc lights under licence from America, with complementary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/2014\/06\/27\/brief-update\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}