First World War: Update on Information from IWM

Further to message of last March, posted here, this is the latest on 'Lives of the First World War':

One month to go

The Lives of the First World War website will be closed from 12.01am on Tuesday 19 March 2019.

We will not be able to accept any further contributions of material after this time. We encourage you to read our FAQs for further details. All Lives of the First World War URLs will be redirected temporarily to a holding page, until we launch the permanent digital memorial on iwm.org.uk in June 2019.

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Last chance: Support Forum

To allow the Lives of the First World War team time to process your requests before the site closes, we will be closing the Support Forum on the following dates:

• Requests for merges will be accepted until 5.00pm on Monday 11 March 2019
• Requests for creating new stories will be accepted until 5.00pm on Friday 15 March 2019
• Questions or comments in the Feedback and Discussion forum will be monitored until 5.00pm on Friday 15 March 2019 

Here are five ways of adding to Lives of the First World War over the next month: Remember a Life Story Add facts about an individual’s life, such as family, civilian and military experiences Scan and upload images of photographs, documents and artefacts Share anecdotes that have been passed down through the family Update Communities that you have started * *Please note that Communities that have fewer than 2 stories in them after 18 March 2019, will be deleted. --------------------------  Laying down their arms

Evidently, as the mainstream memorialisation falls out of fashion and dwindles as above, it will be up to radical historians to continue remembering into 2019 and after the many ways in which the war was prolonged after the Armistice, as in, for example:

The hidden story of Soldiers' Mutinies, Strikes and Riots
https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/ww1-the-hidden-story-of-soliders-mutinies-strikes-and-riots/ -
In 1919, Britain came close to a workers' and soldiers' uprising. But it’s not a story the official WW1 commemoration wants to highlight.

Conscientious Objectors
http://archive.ppu.org.uk/coproject/coww1a.html -
In May 1919 the longest-serving prisoners began to be released; the last CO left prison in August. Many found that no-one wanted to employ them. Those who hadn't done alternative or non-combatant service were deprived of their votes for five years (though this wasn't always strictly enforced).