2018 Battlefield Tours
Shirebrook Miners in the Tunnelling Companies
Who dug the Lochnagar Mine? ‘La mine Lochnagar’ en français
‘It was in fact pure murder’: John Nash’s ‘Over the Top’
Who was Ivor Gurney’s ‘The Silent One’? The night attack by the 2/5th Glosters on 6-7 April 1917
The most effective chemical attack ever staged: the gas attack at Caporetto, 24th October 1917
Myths of Messines: Four Misconceptions about the 1917 Battle Re-examined
Understanding Chemical Warfare in the First World War
Edward Harrison, who gave his life to protect against poison gas
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Yellow Cross: the advent of Mustard Gas in 1917
Yellow Cross: Measures to protect against Mustard Gas
My article in The Guardian on the centenary of the first gas attacks
Anon. no longer: the author of ‘Man-at-Arms’ revealed
Understanding the 1914 Christmas Truce
Infiltration by Close Order: André Laffargue and the Attack of 9 May 1915
English Heritage Guest Curator for the Stonehenge Visitor Centre, 2014. Photos by the designers Northover & Brown.
A Rifleman at Waterloo: my ancestor who served with the 95th.
Where did Vera Brittain serve in France during the First World War?
My two-part article on the First British Gas Masks which appeared in Military Illustrated.
Buy Underground Warfare 1914-1918 at a reduced price
A piece by Theo Emery about our visit to Belgium
Famous Verdun photographs which are not what they seem
The First Gas Attacks, a Century On
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
Why the poet Isaac Rosenberg is not shown in First World War archive footage
The story behind a painting: ‘A German Attack on a Wet Morning’ by Harold Sandys Williamson
A thoughtful article by Theo Emery after our visit to Ypres on 21-22 April 2015.
Col di Lana: the First World War in the Dolomite mountains
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
Trenches and Memorials from the First World War around Caporetto
Hi Simon,
I am creating a resource pack for a theatre production “The Disappearance of Dorothy Lawrence” and was hoping I could meet with you in July for a chat about the life of Ms Lawrence.
I would be happy to meet in London or elsewhere if this would be more convenient.
Best wishes and I look forward to hearing from you, Naomi
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.