by neil_admin | Apr 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
I know that a lot of people think that history is a dry and dusty subject not really relevant to modern life. ‘After all’, I have heard people say ‘what can you do with a history degree, teach history?’ History is a living subject, history is being made every day. It...
by neil_admin | Feb 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Any reference to cavalry conjures up images of courageous horsemen charging across the battlefield running down the enemy but an image of Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion perhaps doesn’t have quite the same romantic magic. However, the role carried out by them was...
by neil_admin | Jan 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
By the time that you read this article the chances are that you will have made your resolutions and in most cases have already broken them but I did think that you might be interested in how the making of New Years Resolutions came about. The first recorded making of...
by neil_admin | Nov 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
It is the time of year again when at 11a.m. on 11th November (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) that we remember the sacrifice of the thousands of men and women of the United Kingdom of England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland armed...
by neil_admin | Sep 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
As a Battlefield Guide I take groups of adults and children of all ages to the battlefields in Western Europe and when people ask me about what I do the almost invariable response is that they remember going from school or that it is something that they have always...
