Upcoming Events

The All Arms Battle and Manoeuvre Warfare – British Airpower 1917

From Brown Bess to SMLE

Percy Camplin: A Librarian on the Western Front

Rick Smith - British Artillery on the Western Front 1914-1918

British Artillery on the Western Front 1914-1918 

"Arf a Mo' Kaiser": How Tommy saved Britain's wartime mail order tobacco trade

Tabacco fundraising and the First World War. 

How the Western Front recovered from the ruins - and what Yorkshire did to help

Find out more about the British League of Help 

German Tanks at Villers-Bretonneux

In April 1918, German and British tanks clashed in the world’s first tank-on-tank battle. 

Another Sunderlan' Lad - Billie Wilson's journey from Sunderland to the Somme via 'The Land of the Pharaohs'

The WW1 story of another of the Wilson brothers of Sunderland. 

HMS India – War, Loss and Memory

The loss of HMS India in October 1915 with her crew is a powerful but often overlooked story of WW1 at sea. 

On 13th November, Beaumont Hamel was English

The Continental Commitment 1901-1916: Why did Britain decide to fight Germany on land in France?

By God, They Can Fight!!

This is the story of Warwickshire's territorial battalions on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. 

August 1914 - Following a supply column

the total chaos of the opening weeks of the Great War 

The Indian Army in East Africa, 1914

How the Indian army came to serve in East Africa, the battles around Tanga (and Longido) and the repercussions 

10 Decisions that settled the Campaign to the Marne

How did the German campaign in 1914 go from invasion to retreat in six weeks?