Hardship and Hope in the Trenches

Authors

  • Connor Lysaght

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/arch.10591

Keywords:

Personal Journals, Constructing narratives, Archival Sources, World War One

Abstract

The article muses on the art of creating a worthwhile story from the archives of particular people. It uses the story of 2nd Lieutenant John Trevor Thomas, as told through his diary entries and letters he wrote whilst at a prisoner-or-war camp, to demonstrate the sort of narrative that can be extracted from such writings.

Metadata reused from the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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Author Biography

Connor Lysaght

Connor Lysaght is the Archives Officer at the Ashburton Museum, which houses the locally significant collections of the Ashburton Museum & Historical Society and the Ashburton District Council’s archives. Connor works to preserve the archives held at the Museum, facilitates research for the public and Council and provides a weekly heritage column to the Ashburton Guardian newspaper. The Ashburton Museum’s community archives contain a wide variety of records, ephemera and photographs which all contribute to the Ashburton District’s social history and identity.

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Published

2022-01-01

Issue

2022

Section

Articles