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CANCELLED : 'Aerial Photography in the Great War' with Alan Wakefield
Alan Wakefield will be giving at talk on Aerial Photography in the First World War.
Ernest Brooks and the photograph of The 'Forty Thieves'
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With recent developments in technology, the colourisation of monochrome images from the Great War has come on in leaps and bounds. The obvious example is the film 'They Shall Not Grow Old' by Peter Jackson. Others have been doing similar work but obviously on a much smaller scale. One example of this is an excellent image of the famous photograph t…
Ep. 104 – The Salonika Front – Alan Wakefield
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Alan Wakefield, Head of First World War & Early 20th Century Conflict at the Imperial War Museum and Chairman of the Salonika Campaign Society, talks about the Salonika campaign during the Great War.
'The Salonika Campaign' with Alan Wakefield
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Between 1915 and 1918, British troops were part of a multi-national Allied force fighting against the Bulgarians and their allies in the Balkans. Although disease and the harsh conditions took a heavy toll, they eventually brought the campaign to a successful conclusion. Alan Wakefield is the leading expert on this 'forgotten' campaign and will tal…
"Mountains, Mules and Malaria, Soldiering with the British Salonika Force 1915-1918" by Alan Wakefield
Alan is currently Head of First World War & Early 20th Century Conflict curatorial team at the IWM. He is a member of the British Commission for Military History and chairs the Salonika Campaign Society. Alan writes and lectures on various aspects of military history, with particular emphasis on the First World War and over the past decade has …
ONLINE: 'Britain's Air War Over France & Flanders' with Alan Wakefield
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The presentation will be live and online. By November 1918 the Royal Air Force had become an important component in the Allies victory over Germany, with a number of well-defined operational roles. This talk by Alan Wakefield of the Imperial War Museum will attempt to tell how the RAF achieved this through focusing on ten key aircraft that def…