The Recovery and Commemoration of War Dead from Post-Colonial Contexts

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Acknowledgements

Many of these themes surrounding the recovery and commemoration of war dead in post-colonial contexts, were first explored in a symposium held at Kingston University in September 2015. I gratefully acknowledge the support of the Society for Postmedieval Archaeology and Kingston University’s Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing in convening that symposium. I would also like to thank the other speakers and attendees at that event for their valuable insights. Special thanks are due to Professor Rachel Woodward for her excellent editorial guidance and support in preparing all the papers in this issue.

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Layla Renshaw http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9233-458X

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Layla Renshaw

Dr Layla Renshaw is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied and Human Sciences, Kingston University, London where she teaches forensic archaeology and anthropology. She has worked as an assistant archaeologist to the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal in Kosovo and has conducted extensive field work in Spain. She is the author of Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War. Her research interests include the role of archaeology in post-conflict investigations and public perceptions of forensics. She is currently writing a book on the identification of World War I soldiers on the Western Front, and the link between genetic testing and memory.