Taff Gillingham: Television and The Great War
Using his own experience of the television industry over the past 15 years, Taff looks at how the Great War has been portrayed on British Television over the past 50 years.
Taff Gillingham is a military historian specialising in the life of the British and Commonwealth soldier during the first half of the twentieth century; their weapons, drills, routines, uniforms and equipment. Since the 1990s, he has been the military historical advisor on many major film, television and theatre productions, and regularly appears in tv and radio documentaries. He has collected militaria since he was at school and is Chief Chum of the Association for Military Remembrance; 'The Khaki Chums'. A former trustee of The Suffolk Regiment Museum, he is Chair of the Friends of the Suffolk Regiment and Hon. Sec. of the Ipswich & District Suffolk Regiment Old Comrades. He is co-director of Khaki Devil Limited and the Great War Huts project.