Upcoming Events

The Easter Rising: A Distraction from the Western Front

The 1916 Easter Rising was intended to exploit British distraction, but did it significantly divert Western Front military resources. 

Branch AGM followed by "The Great War Memorials of Lincolnshire"

Grandfather & the south African native labour corps

the story of the 27,000 black labourers who volunteered to Europe 

Pitiful Desolation: The attack by 63rd (Royal Naval) Division in the Battle of the Ancre, November 1916

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

Forgotten Blitz and Defeat of the Zeppelins

How the war was waged in the sky's above Britain from 1914-18  

Lancashire (North) Book Club

The second Lancashire (North) Book Club 

Gotha Raids

The Sky Was Lurid With Flames  

Tall tales or real history?

A look at one soldier's life during the First World War 

Hawthorn crater and the Somme

Further details to follow 

The Battle of Nonne Bosschen 11th November 1914

A look at one of the early battles of the war 

Arthur Hutt VC

Gallantry action at Passchendaele 1917 

Women in the Great War

Exploring the extensive role of women in the Great War. 

Haig and his maps

Join us to find out more about these little known maps and their conservation. 

A Doctor at War