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. 74 – The British Tommy in 1918 – Taff Gillingham
Historian and First World War expert Taff Gillingham delivers a lecture on the British soldier in...
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Ep. 73 – Learning to Fight – Military innovation in the British Army 191...
Dr. Aimee Fox, Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London, talks about her new book Le...
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Ep. 72 – British POWs in Germany during WW1 – Dr Oliver Wilkinson
Dr Oliver Wilkinson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton, talks about...
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Ep. 71 – From Docks and Sand – The 7th Battalion Liverpool Regiment in t...
Dr Adrian Gregson talks about his recent book, From Docks and Sand, Southport and Bottle·s Battal...
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Ep. 70 – The Last Battle – Endgame on the Western Front 1918 – Peter Hart
Historian Peter Hart about his new book The Last Battle – Endgame on the Western Front 1918, publ...
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Ep. 69 – The German 1918 Spring Offensives – Dr Jonathan Boff
Dr Jonathan Boff, University of Birmingham, gives a lecture on the German Spring Offensives which...
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Ep. 68 – The British Manpower Crisis of 1918 – Dr Alison Hines
Dr Alison Hines, gives a lecture on the British Manpower Crisis of 1918; this talk was given at T...
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Ep. 67 – Kriegsgefangen in Skipton – Anne Buckley
Anne Buckley, Lecturer in Translation Studies and German at Leeds University, talks about transla...
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Ep. 66 – The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu – Kenneth C. Davis
Author Kenneth C. Davis talks about his latest book on the hidden history of the Spanish Flu duri...
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Ep. 65 – Major Discoveries on the Western Front – David Tattersfield
Western Front Association trustee David Tattersfield talks about his detective work in France to...
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Ep. 64 – The London Irish in the Great War – Richard O’Sullivan
Richard O’Sullivan, Assistant Curator at the London Irish Rifles Association, talks about the Lon...
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Ep. 63 – Blockade, economic warfare and the use of hunger during the Gre...
Sir Hew Strachan, patron of The Western Front Association and Professor of International Relation...
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