Recording from the webinar “New Borders, New Orders: Teaching the Aftermath of the Great War” from 18 November 2025.
This session explores how the aftermath of the First World War can be taught through the eyes of the children who lived it. How do we help students imagine a world where currency collapses overnight or everyday goods become scarce? The webinar introduces storytelling approaches and classroom strategies that make these complex transformations relatable for today’s learners. Historian Izabela Mrzygłód, PhD presents new educational resources, including ego-documents, biographies, photographs, and literary excerpts, showing how young people across Europe experienced instability and social change. Prof. Ewelina Szpak highlights the online exhibition “After the Great War. A New Europe 1918–1923,” offering teachers a ready-made collection of maps, infographics, archival images, and personal accounts. Designed especially for lessons marking the November anniversary of the end of the First World War, this webinar provides practical materials and examples that link global postwar developments to the everyday lives of children and families.
Speakers:
Izabela Mrzygłód, PhD – Historian and editor; post-doc at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Ewelina Szpak – Co-creator of “After the Great War. A New Europe 1918–1923.”
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