WW1
Sospan Fach and that Cursèd Wood
March is Dewithon Month #Dewithon. You can read about this celebration of literary Wales at the link We are all invited…
A Compendium of Delight
Poetry is critical to a complete understanding of the First World War because in the years leading up to and…
Women Artists of WW1: Anna Coleman Ladd
In his series of WW1 epitaphs, Rudyard Kipling comments on the all too common fate of a new soldier at…
The Thinking
This post is in answer to the question "Operation Pied Piper: What were they thinking?" At least in terms of…
A Heap of Broken Images
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say,…
The Irish Airman and Time for a Flu Shot
Yeats wrote the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" (see Game of Swans) in 1916 /17 when he was staying…
My Life Among the Spirit People
The Background One evening in the spring of 1919 a soldier in his uniform appeared at the front door of…
The Pains of Parting and a Father Says Farewell
Two quite different wartime farewells at Charing Cross Station: The first is from Vera Brittain on the eve of 1915:…
Who was May Herschel Clarke?
It started with a tweet from yesterday morning: So off to google where I found the same inaccurate one-line biography…
The BWIR, Mutiny and the Men of Taranto: No Parades
Update: 15 October 2020 I've heard from Lyn who is the Project Lead for ‘Away from the Western Front’. ‘No…