I had a wonderful time working with Year 5 pupils at Ravensthorpe Junior School, spending a full day each with Class 5M and 5W. The pupils were very interested in the postcards from the collection and enjoyed trying to read...
I had a wonderful time working...
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Many of the postcards sent by soldiers from the Front were made by Bamforth & Co. based in Holmfirth. By the end of WWI the company was printing 20 million cards every year. Bamforth's Postcards were the market leader throughout...
Many of the postcards sent by ...
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It has been wonderful working with a very talented group of writers from Year 7 at Castle Hall Academy. We started our first session by sharing and discussing some postcards from the collection, focussing mainly on the written side and...
It has been wonderful working ...
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The 'Pals' battalions of World War I, comprised of men who had enlisted together in local recruiting drives, who were promised that they would be able to serve alongside their friends, colleagues and neighbours ("pals"), rather than being randomly allocated...
The 'Pals' battalions of World...
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Artist Adrian Hill was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to record the conflict on the Western Front during WWI. This painting of 'Ruins Between Bernafay Wood and Maricourt' (Art.IWM ART1663) is in the IWM collection and is one of...
Artist Adrian Hill was commiss...
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A link to a local history website with lots of information on local volunteers including photographs. http://mirfield-2ndlook.info/WWI_Volunteers/wwi_volunteers.html...
A link to a local history webs...
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On the first day of the battle of the Somme, there were 60,000 casualties (20,000 killed and 40,000 wounded). To put the number into some perspective, that's equal to the Olympic Stadium in London at full capacity....
On the first day of the battle...
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