Sussex Women at War: Iva Mary Harland and Fanny Amelia Kennaird

Sussex Women at War: Iva Mary Harland and Fanny Amelia Kennaird

The Great War is seen as an event that marked and occasioned deep and lasting social change. Histori…

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Addison Barnes Perrott Hadden MC - South Irish Horse in the First World War

Addison Barnes Perrott Hadden MC - South Irish Horse in the First World War…

For many years, I have had in my sewing basket the buttons from the uniform of the South Irish Horse…

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Five into four does go

Five into four does go

For his book, The Kaiser’s Battle, Martin Middlebrook did some analysis of the British Expeditionary…

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Tolkien’s “bitter winnowing” and the War Memorial at St. Augustine’s Church, Edgbaston

Tolkien’s “bitter winnowing” and the War Memorial at St. Augustine’s Church…

The war memorial at St. Augustine’s of Hippo - parish church of Edgbaston, Birmingham – is intriguin…

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FILM REVIEW : All Quiet on the Western Front

FILM REVIEW : All Quiet on the Western Front

This article by Prof. Stephen Badsey first appeared in the December issue of Bulletin 123.  This …

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Forever Friends: Laurie Denison and Clifford Thompson

Forever Friends: Laurie Denison and Clifford Thompson

The concept of the ‘Pals’ battalions is familiar to people who are familiar with Britain’s part in t…

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McCudden meets the Red Baron

McCudden meets the Red Baron

Whilst Manfred von Richtofen (the ‘Red Baron’) is the most famous flying ‘ace’ of the First World Wa…

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Every man for himself: The Loss of HMS Formidable 1 January 1915

Every man for himself: The Loss of HMS Formidable 1 January 1915

Launched in November 1898 and commissioned on 10 October 1901, HMS Formidable was the third ship so …

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The Cotton-Mill Worker, the Stockbroker and the Flammenwerfer: The 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade at Hooge

The Cotton-Mill Worker, the Stockbroker and the Flammenwerfer: The 8th Batt…

The small village of Hooge sits approximately three miles east of Ypres, and during the early stages…

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Lanoe Hawker, VC: Pilot, Innovator and Inventor

Lanoe Hawker, VC: Pilot, Innovator and Inventor

Lanoe Hawker was born on 31 December 1890 in Longparish, Hampshire, and soon showed himself to be an…

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Away from the Front Line – Poperinge, La Poupée and Talbot House

Away from the Front Line – Poperinge, La Poupée and Talbot House

The 50th anniversary of the death of Tubby Clayton In his memoir, ‘Tales of Talbot House’ (see refe…

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First World War Materials for University Students

First World War Materials for University Students

Autumn brings the start of the academic term. Undergraduate and postgraduate degrees will be startin…

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