First World War Walks in Britain

[...] 1928, ten years after the guns on the Western Front fell silent, reappraisals of the Great War started to appear. In 1968 fifty years after the [...]

[...] Celebrity spy novelist John Buchan arrived on the Western Front convinced Britain wouldn’t have lasted one month in the war without the help of Fleet Street [...]

[...] In the first weeks of August 1914, the rate of recruitment into the British Army was comparatively low, and this was put down not so much to a lack of enthusiasm on the part [...]

[...] In the run-up to the Battle of Loos, the British Army realised it would need thousands of binoculars for officers and NCOs. A public appeal produced [...]

[...] cockpits of governance – London’s Whitehall. This is the heartland of the Great War years, and your surroundings are little changed from a century ago, when the war to end [...]

[...] 1928, ten years after the guns on the Western Front fell silent, reappraisals of the Great War started to appear. In 1968 fifty years after the guns fell silent, the egalitarian 60s were [...]

The theme to Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 became Britain’s unofficial national anthem during World War One, especially on Armistice Da [...]

[...] North East France led to a policy of schrecklichkeit – frightfulness – against Belgian civilians. Massacres, executions and the burning of towns and villages drove hundreds of thousands of [...]

[...] Germany defeat France, French borders would be respected. Nothing was said about respecting Belgian neutrality. The Treaty of London in 1839 established the Kingdom […] [...]

Deeds not words: women in the First World War Join a Blue Badge guide on a walk through central London to hear how women ‘did their bit’ during th [...]

On August 5th 1914 Lord Kitchener was appointed the Secretary of State for War. Like the great soldier-saint Gordon of Khartoum, he was unmarried and [...]

[...] are loaded, hot drinks and sandwiches for the crew gondolas, hoses are filling the giant hydrogen gas cells and water filling the ballast sacks. The engines […] [...]

Please find listed below info on forthcoming New Manchester Walks WW1 walks. Thursday November 6th ‘ War at the Docks’ From the women crane driver [...]