By Andrew Sims, Volunteer Archivist It is not often that there is time to browse through items within the archive...
Volunteers Week takes place 1 – 7 June every year and is a chance to recognise the fantastic contribution volunteers...
After utter devastation came surrender and Peace. This month marks the 75th anniversaries of the dropping of the atomic bombs...
Propaganda in the First World War At the outbreak of the First World War, a great patriotic fervour ensured that...
Writing the notes from the archive has been made easy for me because I have such a vast archive of...
We are counting down the days to the anniversary of one of the most monumental battles in the history of...
The Trench experience was a unique mixture of acting and audience participation, involving costumes, trains and trenches. It was an...
One of the characters featured in The Trench is Arthur Knyvett Totton. Born in Surrey in 1892 he was working...
Thomas Richard Stokoe was a career soldier who was commissioned into the DCLI in 1892. At the outbreak of war...
Hello! Please can you introduce yourself to us? Hello, I’m Jason Squibb, and I’m the Artistic Director for Collective Arts...
Rory is probably best-known for his roles in Doc Martin & Poldark and is soon to hit the big screen...
Want to get your hands on a real WW2 rifle? Think of the stories it could tell! Our ever...
EDIT: Due to a huge amount of support, this project has now been updated – read more in the...