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'Short and missing a finger! - Quirks and pitfalls of researching family military history' with Steve Erskine

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Steve Erskine was  a curator at The Green Howards Regimental Museum in Richmond, and his talk gives a flavour of his research work.

'Sir Mark Sykes – The Yorkshireman Who Made the Middle East' with Steve Erskine

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Sir Mark Sykes – The Yorkshireman Who Made the Middle East’ with Steve Erskine “Give me a native regiment to organise, a rebellion to raise, a map to make”, implored Mark Sykes whilst languishing in a dead-end military job in Ireland. During the early part of the First World War Sir Mark Sykes was involved in establishing the Waggoner’s Special...