Research

Thesis Title: 'A Century of Reinvention: Display policy and practice at the Imperial War Museum, London. 1917-c.2017'.

Alys's research is centred on the ways in which the Imperial War Museum in London has represented war within its public galleries since it was founded in 1917. Alys is interested in exploring the ways in which the museum, war and material culture relate at IWM and more generally in the relationship between conflict, cultural memory and physical heritage.

Conference Papers:

• ‘The Palace of Voices: Objects, Affect and the Senses in the Imperial War Museum c.1918-2012’, Conflict and the Senses, IWM and the University of Bristol, September 2013.
• ‘Thresholds of Memory: Commemorative Space(s) in the Imperial War Museum, London 1920-c.1960', Memory, Conflict, Space, The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University, July 2013.
• ‘From Private Lives to Public History: Donation Letters to the Imperial War Museum,’ joint-paper with James Wallis, War and Life-writing Conference, Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and War-NET, November 2012.
• ‘From Dug-Out to Display Case: the Imperial War Museum and the Afterlife of the Material Culture of Conflict', Fourth Annual Modern Conflict Archaeology Conference, University of Bristol, October 2012.

Teaching

• Approaching the Past