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Britain’s Forgotten Black Army in WW1
Season 1 Episode 34
As part of Black History Month, we look at the often forgotten story of the Black African-Caribbean men who joined the British Army during the Great …
5 years, 2 months ago
Trench Chat: Great War Huts with Taff Gillingham
Season 1 Episode 33
We're joined by Military Historian Taff Gillingham this week to talk about his amazing Great War Huts project taking place in Suffolk. We learn about…
5 years, 2 months ago
Somme: The Colonel's Field
Season 1 Episode 32
What is the story behind a place known as 'The Colonel's Field' near to the Somme village of Flers? In this episode, we link Picardy with Yorkshire a…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Silent Cities
Season 1 Episode 31
Rudyard Kipling called the cemeteries of the Great War 'Silent Cities', these vast cities of stone where the dead of that conflict lay. What is the b…
5 years, 2 months ago
Trench Chat: The Missing with John Broom
Season 1 Episode 30
In this latest Trench Chat we talk to historian and author John Broom about his new book Reported Missing in the Great War which will be published by…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Missing of the Great War
Season 1 Episode 29
The war poet Siegfried Sassoon referred to the Missing of the First World War as 'nameless names'. Who were the Missing, what was their fate, how wer…
5 years, 3 months ago
Somme: Pozières to Martinpuich
Season 1 Episode 28
In this episode, we walk the fields that link together an English composer, a Canadian who was one of three from the same street to be awarded the Vi…
5 years, 3 months ago
Ypres: Hitler's War at Croonaert Wood
Season 1 Episode 27
On the slopes of the Messines Ridge, Croonaert Wood (or Bayernwald as the Germans called it) was one of the places connected to Adolf Hitler's story …
5 years, 3 months ago
Trench Chat: WW1 Geology with Peter Doyle
Season 1 Episode 26
Why is the Geology of the First World War so important? In this latest Trench Chat, we are joined by Professor Peter Doyle to discuss landscape and m…
5 years, 4 months ago
Somme: Courcelette to ADANAC Cemetery
Season 1 Episode 25
In this episode, we are back on the Somme and follow in the footsteps of Canadian soldiers who fought at Courcelette in 1916. On this tiny battlefiel…
5 years, 4 months ago