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The 2014 Lecture will be delivered at 5.30pm on 13 November 2014 in the Lecture Hall, Dr Williams’s Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR.All are welcome. To book a place, please email conference@dwlib.co.uk.‘Revisiting Religion and the British Soldier in the First World War’by Dr Michael Snape (University of Birmingham)The significance of religion for the British soldier of 1914-1918 has traditionally been downplayed, and even discounted, in the historiography and popular mythology of the First World War. However, more recent research has tended to highlight the importance of personal faith and the role of religious agencies in the British experience of the war. Going further than the case of Great Britain, and beyond the years of the war itself, this lecture examines patterns of religiosity in the British army, correlates them with the evidence of other armed forces and other conflicts, and reassesses the nature and significance of religion for the British soldier throughout the ordeal of the First World War.For more information about the Lecturer, click here.For more information about the Friends of Dr Willliams's Library Annual Lectures and how to order printed copies, click here.