Upcoming Events

Quintinshill, 22nd May 1915; Britain's worst railway disaster

The World’s Game: Football and WWI

A free online symposium from the National WWI Museum and Memorial, tracing football's development as a global game before, during and after the Great War. 

Kaiser Bill: The Man behind the Image' Kaiser Wilhelm II

The Russian Army in World War 1

Join us to look at the Russian Army during the Great War  

I'm Out! Escape to The Frontier

British POWS in Germany, 1914-1918' and focusses on the attempts to escape from camps deep within Germany and the many trials and pitfalls they faced in trying to get out of Germany. Some escaped, far more were recaptured. Its a thrilling tale of daring do! 

Too Shallow For the Navy: The Royal Navy's role in the Mesopotamian campaign.

Members Night

A chance to display the many talents of our own Essex Branch members 

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. 

HMS India – War, Loss and Memory

In October 1915, the armed merchant cruiser HMS India was sunk off the Norwegian coast after an encounter with a German U-boat. The loss of the ship and her crew is a powerful but often overlooked story of the First World War at sea.