National Events
ONLINE: The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great Wa…
21 Sep 2020 20:00National Event
The presentation will be live and online. Tim Cook, the First World War historian at the Canadian W…
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India's Great War with Dr Adam Prime
28 Sep 2020 19:30Preston & Central Lancashire
Adam's talk looks at India's contribution to the First World War in every sense of the word. It take…
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ONLINE: Prosthetics and Poverty: Disabled servicemen and their families aft…
28 Sep 2020 20:00National Event
The presentation will be live and online. Dr Martin Purdy examines the treatment of disabled Great …
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Tom Cousins (Bournemouth University): The world's first aircraft carrier
03 Oct 2020 14:30Wessex
Commissioned in 1924, HMS Hermes served briefly with the Atlantic Fleet before spending the bulk of …
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ONLINE: Tea Pots to Tin Lids by Andrew Rawson
05 Oct 2020 20:00National Event
The presentation will be live and online. We usually discuss the use of shells, rifles, grenades an…
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Tanks in the 100 Days:- by Peter Harris
06 Oct 2020 19:30Chesterfield
Tanks in the 100 Days (more info to follow) -------------------------------…
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"Motorcycle dispatch riders in 1914" by Nick Shelly
07 Oct 2020 19:30Cambridgeshire
Nick will be giving a detailed description on how motorbikes were used during the war.
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'Hartelebury V.A.D.' a talk by Doug Smith
09 Oct 2020 19:00Midlands (East)
In the First World War many hundreds of houses were converted into hospitals to help cope with the m…
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The Half-Shilling Curate: A personal account of faith & war during WW1
10 Oct 2020 14:30Yorkshire
In this talk, Sarah Reay will tell the story of an Army Chaplain from Yorkshire, the speaker's grand…
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Date to be confirmed 'The Third Anglo Afghan War' by Dr Adam Prime
12 Oct 2020 18:30Staffs (North) & Cheshire (South)
The Third Anglo-Afghan War is a conflict very closely tied to the First World War. Firstly, it occur…
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Food Glorious Food - Pat Adamson
14 Oct 2020 19:30Somerset
Food Glorious Food - Pat Adamson A look at the types of food that were available at home and i…
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In Haig's Shadow by Gary Sheffield
14 Oct 2020 19:45Heart of England
In Haig's Shadow: Major-General Hugo De Pree, his uncle Douglas Haig and the First World War. Hu…
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Milton Keynes Western Front Association Seminar
17 Oct 2020 09:30Milton Keynes
Buffet lunch included plus tea, coffee and biscuits throughout the day. Book stall, WFA stall, and l…
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Online Branch Zoom Meeting 17/10/20
17 Oct 2020 14:00Birmingham
Email jd@wfa-birmingham.org.uk
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No Labour, No Food, No War with Richard Preston
26 Oct 2020 19:30Preston & Central Lancashire
The impact of the 1st World War on agriculture. This talk highlights the pressures farmers were unde…
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