Mentioned in Dispatches

Ep240 – Dr Emily Mayhew – Stretcher Bearers on the Western Front

Military medical historian Dr Emily Mayhew talks about the role of stretcher bearers during the Great War. Stretcher bearers played a major role in extracting and saving wounded men from the battlefield and Emily talks about who they were, what they did and what difference they made. She works as a Visiting Researcher and historian […]

Ep239 – Dr John Burke – Roscommon during the Great War and after

Historian and author Dr John Burke talks about the history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 during the Irish revolutionary period which covers the Great War, Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War. Roscommon was an agricultural area which had been solid political territory of the Irish Parliamentary Party. However, during the war, the area […]

Ep238 – China and the Great War – Frances Wood

Author Frances Wood talks about her recent book, Betrayed Ally, China in the Great War, that she wrote jointly with Christopher Ardnander. Frances tells how in 1912 the Qing Dynasty had ended thousands of years of Imperial autocratic rule. President Yuan Shikai, who seized power in 1914, offered the British 50,000 troops to recover the […]

Ep237 – The missing of the Somme – Pam & Ken Linge

Ken Linge talks about the work he and his wife Pam have done on researching the stories of the ‘missing’ on the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme. It is located near the French village of Thiepval and is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of […]

Ep236 – The 47th Div at High Wood, 1916 – Richard Hendry

Independent scholar Richard Hendry talks about his research into the 47th Division at High Wood during the Battle of the Somme in Sept 1916.

Ep235 – Teachers during the Great War – Dr Barry Blades

Independent writer and researcher Dr Barry Blades talks to me about his  books looking at schools, teachers and the Great War. These are ‘Roll of Honour’ (2015) and ‘Teachers at the Front’ (2021) and both published by Pen & Sword Books.

Ep234 – Czech soldiers in WW1 – Dr Jiri Hutečka

Dr Jiří Hutečka, Associate Professor at the University of Hradec Králové, talks about his recent book on the motivation and morale of Czech soldiers during the Great War. This book is published by Berghahn Books.

Ep233 – Moonlight Massacre at 3rd Ypres – Dr Michael LoCicero

Dr Michael LoCicero, an independent scholar and the Commissioning Editor at Helion & Co., talks about his recent book, A Midnight Massacre, that explores the final operation at Third Ypres, in December 1917.

Ep232- The CWGC Non-Commemoration Report – Dr George Hay

Dr George Hay, the Official Historian at Commonwealth War Graves Commission, talks about the recent Commission report on Non-Commemoration report that explores the inequalities in the way the organisation commemorated the dead of the British Empire from the Great War.

Ep231- Yugoslavia in the British imagination during WW1 – Dr Samuel Foster

Dr Samuel Foster, Visiting Fellow in the School of History, University of East Anglia, talks about his new book on Yugoslavia in the British Imagination. This book explores how the South Slavic Balkans, or the area that became Yugoslavia after 1918, was perceived in the British press, policy makers, travel writers and opinion leaders before, during and after […]