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Forgotten Friday – The Battle of Amiens

Forgotten Friday – Battle of Ameins Battle of Amiens, (8th – 11th August, 1918), was a World War One battle that marked the beginning of what came to be known as the “hundred days,” a string of Allied offensive successes on the Western Front that led to the collapse...

Forgotten Friday – The Kriegie Edition

#ForgottenFriday – The Kriegie Edition This wartime publication was extremely famous, it was created by a man named Richard Pape who was from Leeds. He was imprisoned by the Germans, and placed in camp Staglag Luft VI. To try motivating his fellow prisoners, who...

Forgotten Friday – National Tea Day!

#NationalTeaDay Forgotten Friday – Keep Calm & Brew Up In this week’s #ForgottenFriday we are delving into a Cuppa’ Tea and learning about how tea was rationed during the war! One example captures how deeply tea drinking was embedded in the fabric of British...

#ForgottenFriday – Total War!

On 13th January 1943, Adolf Hitler declared “Total War” against the Allies. But what is total war? It means that the contenders are ready to make any sacrifice — life or resources — to win the war. But the German Army officially took the stance a little...

#ForgottenFriday – Archive Library Re-Organisation

How important was literature in the Second World War? This winter, Summer and the team have been extremely busy in reorganising the Archive Libraries, to make it more accessible for future research! So today we are looking into literature in the First and Second World...

#ForgottenFriday – ASDIC

ASDIC is said by some to stand for Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee A Cover Up! It was a cover name for highly secret work by the Anti-Submarine Division of the British Admiralty during the First World War that aimed to improve the techniques for...