The Western Front Association's podcasts 'Mentioned in Dispatches' with Dr Tom Thorpe are an eclectic mix of relaxed discussions with all kinds of contributors: experts in their particular fields, authors, historians, performers, speakers, researches, museum archivists and curators which sometimes shine a light into areas of the first world war which are overlooked.
Ep.239 – Roscommon During the Great War and After - Dr John Burke
Historian and author Dr John Burke talks about the history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 during the...
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Ep.238 – China and the Great War – Frances Wood
Author Frances Wood talks about her recent book, Betrayed Ally, China in the Great War, that she...
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Ep.237 – Missing But Not Forgotten: Men of the Thiepval Memorial – Pam &...
Ken Linge talks about the work he and his wife Pam have done on researching the stories of the ‘m...
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Ep. 236 – The 47th Division at High Wood, 1916 – Richard Hendry
Independent scholar Richard Hendry talks about his research into the 47th Division at High Wood d...
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Ep. 235 – Teachers During the Great War – Dr Barry Blades
Independent writer and researcher Dr Barry Blades talks to me about his books looking at schools,...
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Ep.234 – Czech Soldiers in the First World War – Dr Jiri Hutečka
Dr Jiří Hutečka, Associate Professor at the University of Hradec Králové, talks about his recent...
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Ep.233 – Moonlight Massacre at 3rd Ypres – Dr Michael LoCicero
Dr Michael LoCicero, an independent scholar and the Commissioning Editor at Helion & Co., tal...
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Ep.232 - The CWGC Non-Commemoration Report on Inequalities of Commemorat...
Dr George Hay, the Official Historian at Commonwealth War Graves Commission, talks about the rec...
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Ep.231- Yugoslavia in the British imagination during the First World War...
Dr Samuel Foster, Visiting Fellow in the School of History, University of East Anglia, talks abou...
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Ep.230 – 'Staking the coffins' – the 1918 flu Epidemic in Ireland – Dr I...
Dr Ida Milne, Lecturer in European History at Carlow College, Ireland, talks about her recent bo...
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Ep.229- Jan Smuts and the German East African Campaign – David Katz
Doctoral candidate David Katz, studying at Stellenbosch University, talks about his PhD research...
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Ep. 228 - Royal Marines on the Western Front - Daniel Mclean
Dan Mclean, a history teacher and theologian, who previously served in the Royal Navy, talks abo...
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