Book Review: Somme Success by Peter Hart
KathrynThursday, December 29, 2016
Somme Success: The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of the Somme 1916, Peter Hart - £12.99 www.pen-and-sword.co.uk Pen and Sword B...
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Christmas at the Front: The Fifth Glosters in 1915
KathrynSaturday, December 24, 2016
Christmas 1915, from the Fifth Gloster Gazette: 'Christmas was spent out of the trenches at the rest village, and our celebration of t...
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Ozleworth Church
KathrynFriday, October 28, 2016
Ozleworth is a small village nestled in a valley of the Cotswolds above Wotton-under-Edge. It is most well-known for its two manor houses of...
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Somme 2016: Day Four
KathrynThursday, September 15, 2016
Today, 15th September, marks 100 years since the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, a phase of the Battle of the Somme. It marks 100 years since...
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Somme 2016: Day Three
KathrynWednesday, September 14, 2016
(As with previous days photos will be on my twitter @kathrynww1) until I get to better internet) Today has been perhaps the hottest of th...
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Somme 2016: Day Two
KathrynTuesday, September 13, 2016
(I have still not solved yesterday's photo problem but you can find all my snaps over on twitter @kt_kit_kat. I'll add them here on...
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Somme 2016: Day One
KathrynMonday, September 12, 2016
Today started at 4:00am French time aboard the ferry to Dieppe. I awoke, from a none too pleasant sleep in a reclining pleather seat, to ge...
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Somme visit preamble
KathrynThursday, September 08, 2016
On Sunday I will be travelling to the Somme battlefields to pay my respects in this centenary year. Having already been on two school visit...
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Manchester's Memorials Walking Tour
KathrynThursday, June 30, 2016
Even the rapidly modernising city of Manchester still bears the legacy of those fateful five years of the First World War, with memorials t...
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Roland Garros, hero of the air ... and tennis?
KathrynMonday, May 16, 2016
In French sporting culture the name Roland Garros is synonymous with tennis, as the title of the home of the French Open. However, Monsieur...
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WW1 Centenary: ANZAC Day, 1916
KathrynMonday, April 25, 2016
Australian poster, 1916 ( source ) Today marks ANZAC Day, the national day of remembrance for soldiers from Australia and New Zealand, c...
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"War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail": Propaganda photos and the image of war
KathrynTuesday, March 15, 2016
In researching my dissertation, I have been reading the wartime works of Anglican Chaplain Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, more popularl...
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