Sabine Grimshaw was awarded her Doctorate in 2017.
Her thesis ‘Pacifism and Protest: Anti-War Sentiment in the IWM Collections’ examined the representation of those who actively resisted the First World War in Britain. A partnership between IWM and the University of Leeds, it looks at a time period from the First World War until the centenary years, examining how the representation of anti-war men and women has changed and developed at key junctures in the First World War and in its remembrance.
The principal focus is how the press has represented resisters, and the role that gender has played within the depiction of those who opposed the war. Taking a chronological approach, it explores how discourses of peace and resistance changed and shifted over the war years, and how these discourses have influenced the position of resisters within the 50th anniversary and the current centenary commemorations.