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. 140 – Who Killed Kitchener? – David Laws
Former cabinet minister and MP, David Laws talks about Kitchener: his sad youth growing up in Ire...
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Ep. 139 – Bilsdale in the Great War – Susan Laffey
Sue Laffey talks about the research she and Ida Atkinson did into the community of Bilsdale, Nort...
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Ep. 138 – The Indian Labour Corps in the First World War – Pratap Chhetri
Pratrap Chhetri’s research and interest goes beyond the statistics to take in tribal culture, mem...
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Ep. 137 – The letters of Douglas Haig and Hugo De Pree – Prof. Gary Shef...
Professor Gary Sheffield, Professor of War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, talks abou...
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Ep. 136 – Food in the Trenches – Dr Rachel Duffett
Dr Rachel Duffett, Research Officer, Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, talks ab...
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Ep. 135 – North East Coastal Communities during the Great War – Dr Micha...
Dr Michael Reeve, Academic Skills Tutor and History Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, talks a...
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Ep. 134 – Bairnsfather’s Better ‘ole' cartoon – Dr Helen Brooks & Dr Pip...
On this week’s Dispatches podcast, Dr Helen Brooks, Reader in Theatre and Cultural History, Schoo...
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Ep. 133 – African American Servicemen during WW1 – Dr Amanda Nagel
Amanda Nagel PhD, Assistant Professor of Military History at the School of Advanced Military Stud...
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Ep. 132 – A Lord Lieutenant at War – Dr Richard Batten
Dr Richard Batten, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, talks about a collection...
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Ep. 131 – The 51st Highland Division – Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell about his book on the 51st Highland Division during the Great War that has been re...
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Ep. 130 – Sex on the Western Front – Dr Bruce Cherry
Dr Bruce Cherry talks about his book on the sex life of the Tommy on the Western Front, They Didn...
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Ep. 129 – Sabaton’s Great War Album – Pär Sundström
Pär Sundström, bass player in the Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton, talks about their new album,...
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