Dr Martin Purdy is the editor of our members’ publication the Bulletin. He is based in Lancashire, England, and has near-forty years of experience in the world of newspapers, magazines and broadcasting - having produced items on the Great War for local, regional and national publications.
A member of The WFA for two decades, Martin’s doctorate was a CDA with Lancaster University and the Westfield War Memorial Village; a community established at the end of the Great War to support disabled veterans and their families.
Martin’s academic work on veteran disability, military chaplains, and class bias in the Army of 1914-1918, has been published in collections by Routledge, the Cambridge University Press and others. Popular military research books he has co-authored include The Gallipoli Oak and Doing Our Bit, and a short book for the BBC Who Do You Think Your Are? franchise.
A father of two, and old enough to know better, he is a musician with an award-winning folk trio.