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.249 – The Illustrated Chronicle during the First World War – Peter Welsh
Historian Peter Welsh talks about his research into the daily Northumbrian newspaper, the Illustr...
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Ep.248 – 2nd line Territorial Force Divisions in the First World War –...
Author and historian Dr Bill Mitchinson talks about his latest book ‘Of No Earthly Use’ that expl...
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Ep. 247 – The Punjab Record Project – Dr Gavin Rand
Historian Dr Gavin Rand, Principal Lecturer at the University of Greenwich talks about the recen...
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Ep.246 – Centre for Experimental Military Archaeology and the Great War...
Archaeologist, historian and author Andy Robertshaw talks about his work with the Centre for Expe...
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Ep.245 – Brian Feeney – Antrim and the Irish Revolution, 1912 – 23
Journalist and historian, Dr Brian Feeney talks about his recent book exploring the impact of the...
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Ep. 244 – A Legacy of the First World War: Hindenburg, Ludendorff and Hi...
Historian and author Alex Clifford talks about his recent book on Hindenburg and Ludendorff and h...
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Ep.243 – Discipline in the AIF in WW1 – Prof Peter Stanley
Prof. Peter Stanley talks about the discipline and dissent in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF)...
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Ep.242 – Sex, Violence and Alcohol: some after-effects of the Great War...
In this podcast from Tom Thorpe, Historian Frances Hurd talks about her research into how the tra...
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Ep.241 – Lost But Not forgotten. The Archaeological Recovery of First Wo...
Belgian battlefield archaeologist Simon Verdegem talks to Tom Thorpe in this podcast about his wo...
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Ep.240 – Stretcher Bearers on the Western Front - Dr Emily Mayhew
Military medical historian Dr Emily Mayhew talks about the role of stretcher bearers during the...
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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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