by Summer Obrien | Nov 20, 2023 | News
#ForgottenFriday – Gas Masks Gas played a major role in WWI, meaning that in 1939 a lot of men carried the horrible memories of the horrors of a gas attack in which they suffered not many years prior. Some were even blinded by gas such as mustard or chlorine gas....
by Luke Hudman | Nov 6, 2023 | News
Eden Camp Modern History Museum’s Hut Restoration Project has received £224,000 from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. MALTON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – November 2023 – Eden Camp are thrilled to have been supported by North Yorkshire Council in the... by Summer Obrien | Sep 20, 2023 | Blog, News
Forgotten Friday – Beer in Wartime ‘Beer is Best. It makes for contented workers, friendliness and tolerance, as the Government found in the last war. Above all – beer makes for British cheerfulness, which is undefeated.’ This was the slogan for one of... by Summer Obrien | Aug 10, 2023 | News
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... by Summer Obrien | Jun 15, 2023 | News
#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... by Summer Obrien | Apr 20, 2023 | News
#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...
