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Ep. 10 – Battlefield tourism on the Western Front – Dr Stephen Miles
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Dr Stephen Miles discusses battlefield tourism on the Western Front based on his new book The Western Front : Landscape, Tourism and Heritage, published by Pen & Sword. Your browser does not support the audio element.
A talk by Professor Mark Connelly 'The game of ghosts: visiting the battlefields of the Western Front, 1919-1939'
Mark Connelly is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kent. His main research interests are the memory of war, the image of the armed forces in popular culture and aspects of operational military history. During the centenary he was director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded, ‘Gateways to the First World War...
“From this point the tourist should go on foot” – Experiencing the Somme, 1919 - 1939 with Professor Mark Connelly
Professor Connelly’s presentation will explore Battlefield Tourism to the Somme in the inter-war years. Professor Connelly shares, “For the many thousands of British people who crossed the channel to see the battlefields in the 1920s and 1930s, the experience was very much shaped by the specific section of the front they visited. Ypres was by fa...
'From this point, the tourist should go on foot: the Somme 1919-1939' by Prof Mark Connelly
Caption: Tourists on the Western Front c. 1920 About this talk: Unlike Ypres, which although devastated was close to the channel ports and had its transport links rapidly re-established, visiting the Somme was a far more challenging prospect in the years immediately following the war. Nearly fifty miles across from Amiens to St Quentin and close...