Myths of Messines: Four Misconceptions about the 1917 Battle Re-examined
Who was Ivor Gurney’s ‘The Silent One’? The night attack by the 2/5th Glosters on 6-7 April 1917
English Heritage Guest Curator for the Stonehenge Visitor Centre, 2014. Photos by the designers Northover & Brown.
My article in The Guardian on the centenary of the first gas attacks
Myths of Messines: the ‘Lost Mines’
Myths of Messines: the Big Bang heard in Downing Street
Buy Underground Warfare 1914-1918 at a reduced price
A piece by Theo Emery about our visit to Belgium
Understanding the 1914 Christmas Truce
Understanding Chemical Warfare in the First World War
Where did Vera Brittain serve in France during the First World War?
Col di Lana: the First World War in the Dolomite mountains
Shirebrook Miners in the Tunnelling Companies
Who dug the Lochnagar Mine? ‘La mine Lochnagar’ en français
Edward Harrison, who gave his life to protect against poison gas
Famous Verdun photographs which are not what they seem
The story behind a painting: ‘A German Attack on a Wet Morning’ by Harold Sandys Williamson
A Rifleman at Waterloo: my ancestor who served with the 95th.
The Italian Front in the First World War at Asiago: Monte Zovetto and Magnaboschi
The Italian Front in the First World War at Monte San Michele
The Italian Front in the First World War at Asiago: Granezza and Barenthal Road
The Italian Front in the First World War at Redipuglia and Monte Sei Busi
A thoughtful article by Theo Emery after our visit to Ypres on 21-22 April 2015.
Picture essay: Trenches and Memorials from the First World War around Caporetto
Journal article: The First Gas Attacks, a Century On
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Illustrated essay: Yellow Cross: the advent of Mustard Gas in 1917
Illustrated essay: Yellow Cross: Measures to protect against Mustard Gas
Journal article: When chemical weapons were first dropped from the air, North Russia 1919
Link: Virtual Tour of Trenches and Tunnels excavated at La Boisselle, Somme, France
Anon. no longer: the author of ‘Man-at-Arms’ revealed
Illustrated essay: Infiltration by Close Order: André Laffargue and the Attack of 9 May 1915
Short research piece: Why the poet Isaac Rosenberg is not shown in First World War archive footage
Nice to see you marching on Sapper !
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I’m very impressed by the wealth of knowledge, fact, and memorial momentum of this page (‘page’ is too small a word).. I’m so glad to have found it. I don’t have anything approaching its wealth of knowledge, but I would hope I share a similar depth of feeling for the era and the Great War and what I tend to think of, reverentially, as the ‘poppy generation’. My grandfather fought in the Great War and was incarcerated in a P.O.W. cam (in Germany, I believe). He survived the war but could never speak a word about to his dying day at eighty-two years of age. Thank you, indeed.
Thank you Edward, your comments are much appreciated.