Footsteps of the fallen

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this latest episode. We find ourselves in Ypres, on a part of the salient that offers real bang for the buck regarding military history. Our journey today covers just over...

14 Jul 20241h 6min

Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode, we look at colonial soldiers' experiences in the Great War. Britain and France made full use of the human capital of their global empires to provide extra manp...

30 Jun 20241h 18min

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we travel to the Somme and begin our journey at one of the most iconic sites on the battlefield, the Basilica at Albert. We hear about its founding and discover more...

16 Jun 20241h 7min

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we visit one of the forgotten fronts of the Great War and look at the fighting in Palestine in 1917-1918. This was an unforgiving landscape that saw numerous battles...

26 Mai 20241h 16min

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, recorded live on the battlefields, we are at Festubert, the forgotten battle of 1915, and we visit some of the cemeteries around the battlefield to hear the personal ...

12 Mai 20241h 7min

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 7! In our first episode, we look at poison gas, its development and use on the battlefield, and how the science of chemical weapons saw the militarisation of academ...

28 Apr 20241h 7min

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the final episode of Season 6 and our 150th podcast! In this episode, we look back at the podcast since it began 3 1/2 years ago, examine some of the statistics about the ...

31 Mar 20241h 14min

Send us Fan Mail In this latest podcast, historian and author Tom Isitt joins us. Tom has a passion (or, he might say, obsession) with the Italian Front in the Great War. An inhospitable battlefield w...

17 Mar 20241h 12min