Upcoming Events

Smith Dorrien and the Mons Campaign

Exploration of the critical role Smith Dorrien played during the Mons Campaign of 1914 

Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover

Using a unique archive, the story of an Australian Great War Nurse is revealed 

Shooting war: The work of pioneering WW1 photojournalist Ariel Varges by Nick Higham.

Former BBC correspondent, Nick Higham will talk to us about a photojournalist from the Great war called Ariel Varges. 

Conscientious Objectors

Branch AGM and Quiz Night

Taking The Fallen Heroes Home

Laying fallen British and Commonwealth service personnel to rest ‘where they fell’ was a principle not always followed. 

No bullets & blood

About half of the 1914 workforce became involved the war in a military capacity but the home population as well as the military personnel still needed to be clothed and fed 

The Spy Who Disappeared

A true story of espionage, banditry and derring-do in Transcaspia and the Caucasus. 

Canadian Pilots of the Great War

The lives of 3 Canadian Pilots including 2 VCs 

The CWGC Non-commemoration project

CWGC "Every name we recover is a person no longer forgotten" 

Malta-Nurse of the Mediterranean

Malta earned the title ‘nurse of the Mediterranean’ 

Mud, blood and bandages

The development of Battlefield Medical Services in WW1 

Life in the Trenches

What was life really like in the trenches? 

Origins of The Schlieffen Plan

Germanies Thinking Behind The Schlieffen Plan, and the subcequent outcome. 

The development of aeroplanes and their initial uses in 1914 and early 1915