#RecommendedReading 📖 The Road to Passchendaele – The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs by Richard van Emden 🔗 buff.ly/3QBIRwh

Best news i have had all week! No, year!! The amazing Victorian village, the best in the country, has been saved. I am assuming from the press release that it will go to the brilliant ⁦Beamish Museum⁩ but we’ll see. This is a national treasure saved.

The Victorian village at the sadly defunct Flambards has been saved at the 11th hour. I am still feeling very very chipper about the news!

All ready for the big match. My son has demanded Otis belongs with the Toon Army.

⁦Paul Reed⁩ There were a fair number at the premiere of the film in 2017. I was very fortunate to sit next to one during the film. I would imagine none of these guys are around now.

⁦Tony Pollard⁩ One for you, Tony. Amazing framed finds from #Waterloo picked up, I guess within a few days or weeks of the battle.

NEW TOUR 🚨 Join us in June 2026 for our Somme 1916 tour. Spend a long weekend with Alexandra Churchill ✌🏼⭐️⭐️ Peter Hart AND the incomparable Richard van Emden going out with a tour group for the first time! istoriatravel.org/somme

Just an fyi. In October 2000 I knew of 22 living British prisoners of war from the #GreatWar, the vast majority captured in 1918. All were gone five years later (not really a surprise, I guess) the last dying on 23 December 2005, the last of almost 200,000 captured in #ww1

A fantastic evening for our third Hutted Histories talk, ‘Prepared for War: Uniforms and Equipment of the Great War British Soldier’ - brilliantly delivered by Taff with a special appearance by Kieran Morling 💥

“All will be revealed - my life with Great War veterans” - a HuttedHistories Richard van Emden Exclusive! Richard is writing his memoirs (published later this year) and has agreed an exclusive HH preview. A very special evening! 25.6.25 Details & tickets: shorturl.at/kQxsb

Has any one got issue no16 of the Western Front Association bulletin (1986)? I am looking for a piece written by #ww1 veteran EW Ford about a cross erected in Belgium after a bomb hit a tented camp killing over 40 comrades. Ernest did the artwork on the cross. The only issue I can’t find is no16!

I have had the privilege and pleasure to work with Richard, and call him a great friend, for 25 years. He has some fantastic stories to tell and I can’t wait for him to share them! If you are near enough, do book in - it will be a fantastic evening!! Richard van Emden

We always tell the story of Pte Peter Miller as told by Richard van Emden in ‘All Quiet on the Home Front’ when Commonwealth War Graves Thiepval. We then find his name on Pier 7C and let his sister Emily know that her younger brother is not forgotten.

Tomorrow, on 25 June, Captain John Patrick Danny will be remembered at the place where, a century ago, he and a handful of former soldiers who held the 1914 Star and Clasp, held their first meeting at which The Old Contemptibles' Association was inaugurated.

After 4 weeks of pre-season running in a Cornish heatwave - the boys are back, fit and ready for action. It all starts tomorrow Taunton Town FC ! See our website mouseholeafc.co.uk for season ticket details.

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association up to £50,000. Time is running out following Imperial War Museums’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery. Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

Only a month to go until Not the Western Front Conference 2025 Saturday 25th October in Wakefield West Yorkshire just of the M1. Tickets cost £29 including lunch.with 4 great speakers. buff.ly/4g8JKqq

Anyone with two or three hours to spare on Saturday is very welcome to join us for a cuppa and a biscuit or two before finding out about Great War Huts and exploring the site and the trenches. If you have never been before it’s time you did! Follow the link to book in. 🙂👍🏻

Was walking through York yesterday and saw these medals - I had to ask!! This gentleman was the great grandson of Ernest Sykes VC. He was very kind and spoke to me for a good ten minutes about his relative. #ww1 #greatwar #gallipoli #arras #victoriacross #vc

I wonder how many of these are knocking around? Beautiful soft leather pass from the Peace Congress of 1919. Came with a whole lot of material belong to the named #ww1 officer. #greatwar #firstworldwar