Upcoming Events

Marconi and Hoffman 1914-1945

How did key local industries gear up for the demands on industrial warfare in two World Wars? 

Were There Indians at Gallipoli?

Strange Meetings - the words of Wilfred Owen

A theatrical performance of Owen's words  

The Battle of Nonne Bosschen, 11 November 1914

The Prussian Guard’s attempt to break the British line & how the British infantry and artillery stopped them 

Crowns In Conflict - Queen Victoria, European Royalty and the Tragedy of The Great War

The story of the circumstances that saw Cousin at War with Cousin in the Great War  

I'm Out: Escape from German POW Camps, 1914-18

Nobody really expected to be made a prisoner of war but once captured it was a cruel, hard world. 

Members' Evening- Remembrance Special

Three Sons for the Kaiser: A German Family's Sacrifice in the First World War

Green Howards VC's of the Great War

'It's All a Bit Heath Robinson'

Cartoonist re-inventing the First World War 

Sport in the Royal Flying Corps, 1914-1918

The Work of the Ministry of Defence’s War Detectives

The work of the ‘MoD War Detectives' 

Making a stand: German opposition to World War One

Opposition in Germany to the Great War 

Balkan Purgatory - the 60th (London) Division in Salonika - December 1916 - June 1917

"France had made us realise the grimness of war, but it was the Balkans that taught us to be soldiers". 

Story of Sir Thomas Lipton’s visit to Serbia 1915