by edencamp | Oct 29, 2021 | Blog, Forgotten Friday
This week we’re going spooky for #ForgottenFriday! Ghost Planes Many people saw ghost planes during and after the war. Fighter aircraft would appear and disappear without a trace. One such sighting occurred a year after the attack on Pearl Harbour. When the...
by edencamp | Oct 22, 2021 | Blog, Forgotten Friday
In today’s Forgotten Friday we are celebrating Black History Month! We are looking into the life of Walter Tull and the sacrifice of the British West Indies Regiment during the First World War. Walter Tull Walter Tull became the most celebrated Black British...
by edencamp | Oct 15, 2021 | Blog, Forgotten Friday
This week we are introducing a new series “Faces from the Archive” with help from our Archive Assistant Ellie! The first face is Private Thomas Clifford Packer, a non-combatant soldier from Hull who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps (R.A.M.C.), 184...
by edencamp | Oct 8, 2021 | Blog, Forgotten Friday
Today’s #ForgottenFriday takes us back 82 years ago to the day… 8th October 1939 Hitler’s annexation decree: we are looking at what happened in the annexation of Polish areas and Hitler’s aims during the start of the Second World War. Search...
by edencamp | Oct 1, 2021 | Blog, Forgotten Friday
For today’s #ForgottenFriday, with it being #National Smile Day, we thought we would explore the ways the British public boosted morale during the hardship of WW2. Britain re-created the First World War ‘Ministry of Information’ for the duration of the Second World...
