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ARTICLE: Witches, Ghosts, and WW1 Brothels
I had fun with this a couple of weeks ago, and so here are a couple more instances of French people behaving badly.
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FULL FEATURE: Frogs, Medals and Red tape on the Somme, 1916
By the time you read this, I would have dragged my latest tour group to the French sector on the Somme and given them a grounding in the fact that the…
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ARTICLE: Four Days in Strasbourg, 1870
It’s been a while, so today I thought I would go back to the Franco-Prussian war and have a look at a snapshot of unfolding disaster.
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ARTICLE: Kitchener Arrives at the War Office, 1914
When we wrote Ring of Fire, we committed to producing a history of the opening weeks of the war from the bottom up.
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ARTICLE: Blowing up 16 Locomotives, 1944
Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to be revealing what happened when I spent a morning in a French village full of bookshops.
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True Crime in Calvados, 1920
Anyone that lives under the preconception that all French people are a model of sophistication and culture, hold my drink.
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FREE PHOTO ALBUM: Verdun Getaway
Each spring, we at the Great War Group stage a spring getaway to a part of the Western Front that pushes our members beyond their usual comfort zone.
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Alex Churchill’s HistoryStack
Alex Churchill’s HistoryStack
TV Presenter/Historian (FRHistS). MRes. That makes me sound like an adult. Which is a lie. I guess, come for those credentials, stay for the sarcastic, sweary version of history? 20th Century Military, royals, older wars boats and other rabbit holes.
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