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Ep304 – The Indian Army in WW1 – Dr Alan Jeffreys

Dr Alan Jeffreys talks about his recent publication of collected essays on the Indian Army recently published by Helion. Alan is Head of Equipment and Uniform at the National Army Museum and also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Greenwich. His book and interview address the important global role of the Indian Army during the First World War. The edited volume covers the traditional areas of the Indian Army on the Western Front, in Palestine, Mesopotamia and the defence of the Suez...

Ep303 – The Remount Service and the Army Veterinary Corps during The Great War – Dr Jane Flynn

Ep302 – The role of birds in the GW – Nicholas Milton

Ep301 – Elsie and Mairi Go to War – Dr Diane Atkinson

Ep300 – The state of GW scholarship – Prof John Borne, Dr Jonathan Boff, Dr Alex Mayhew

Ep299 – Queen’s Westminster Rifles in the Great War – Steve Hammond

Ep298 – A Jewish Aid Worker in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920 – Dr Michael Nutkiewicz

Dr Michael Nutkiewicz talks about his new book, A Ukrainian Chapter. A Jewish Aid Worker's Memoir of Sorrow. This is the translation of a memoir by Eli Gumener, a Jewish relief worker living through the consequences of the Great War and Russian Civil War in Podolia, southwest Ukraine. In his memoir, Gumener describes the effect of pogroms on Jewish communities, the challenges of providing relief, and the conflicts between parties with various political agendas. Michael in an independent scholar ...

Ep297 – Organisational learning on the Western Front – Dr Mike Hunzeker

Ep296 – Heroism in literature during FWW – Dr Ann-Marie Einhaus

Ep295 – The birth of the RAF – Prof. Richard Overy

Ep294 – 46th Division in WW1 – Prof. John Bourne

Professor John Bourne talks about his interest and research on the British 46th Division on the Western Front during the Great War. The 46th Division was a Territorial Force unit formed originally from units in the northern Midlands of Britain. It saw action on the Western Front serving at the Battles of Loos, Somme and in the Hundred Days.

Ep200a – Logistics during Third Ypres – Rob Thompson

Ep293 – Bloxham School and the GW – Simon Batten & Matthew Dixon

Ep292 – The 6th Div in the GW – Dr Peter Hodgkinson

Ep291 – Brig-Gen Frank Percy Crozier commands 119 Bde – Dr Mike Taylor

Ep290 – London’s contribution to the Great War – Clive Harris

Ep289 – Donegal before, during and after the GW – Dr Pauric Travers

Ep288 – Raiding – Fraser Skirrow

Ep287 – The Bucks village of Lee in the GW – Dr Michael Senior

Ep286 – Cathal Burgha – Dr Daithí Ó Corráin and Dr Gerard Hanley

Ep285 – Sir Douglas Haig – Prof. John Bourne

Ep284 – King George V in WW1 – Prof Heather Jones

Ep283 – Frank Brangwyn’s Great War art – Libby Horner

Ep282 – Drill, training, and discipline in WW1 – Harry Sanderson

Ep281 – Cricket during the Great War – John Broom

Ep280 – Conscript morale in 1918 – Tim Lynch

Ep279 – The Bucks Battalion in the Great War – Prof Ian Beckett

Ep278 – Hanham – Andrew Wood

Ep277 – The Friendly Invasion of Lewes in 1914 – Jonathan Vernon

Ep276a – Walking the Western Front Way – Sir Anthony Seldon