Give It A Go
Give It A Go is all about exploring LSESU’s amazing, student-led sports clubs, societies and the media group societies. At the start of every term we give students (non-members) the chance to attend free taster sessions with some of our best clubs and societies to see what they’re really like without having to pay membership to join.
These different activities will fall under 5 different themes: Get Active, Learn A Skill, Relax and Socialise, Be Creative, and Share Your Culture, so you will get a flavour of what to expect from the Give It A Go session before you go!
Go to the main Give It A Go page
Give It A Go - Operation War Diary - with LSE Volunteer Centre
Wednesday 05 October 2016
1pm - 3pm
LSESU Meeting Room (beside the LSESU Reception) - 3rd floor of the Students’ Union building
Join the LSE Volunteer Centre to become a Citizen Historian by volunteering some of your time with Operation War Diary. In this drop-in session you will help to digitise the war diaries from the First World War.
War diaries were kept for two reasons: to provide an accurate record of operations for preparing the official history of the war, and to collect information that would help make improvements in preparing the army for war.
The war diaries contain a wealth of information of far greater interest than the army could ever have predicted. They provide unrivalled insight into daily events on the front line, and are full of fascinating detail about the decisions that were made and the activities that resulted from them.
The National Archives has digitised the war diaries of the units under the command of the British and Indian cavalry and infantry divisions on the Western Front. The war diaries are made up of a variety of different types of pages, including cover pages, title pages, orders, signals, maps, narrative reports and the main diary pages themselves. They are catalogued by theatre of operations, unit and the date range covered, but we don't know much more about the content of the diaries beyond this.
Places are limited! To reserve your place and guarantee entry (as well as receiving updates about any room changes) just request a free ticket.
If you are a new student starting at LSE and you have not registered in LSE yet, then you will need to create a guest account on this website to reserve a place. Get started by clicking Options (top right) then 'Guest Account'.
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