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August 28, 2017

Big Recording Month Week 5: The Final Week

  Week 5 is the final week of Big Recording Month. The Home Front Legacy team would like to thank everyone who has got involved recorded sites during Big Recording Month. To round things off, our Core Users

August 21, 2017

Big Recording Month Week 4: The Recording App

This week we'll look at recording your site with our recording app. Our recording app is a simple to use web based application that can be used on both computers, tablets and smartphone devices to record your local Home Fr

August 14, 2017

Big Recording Month- Week 3: Creating Your Record and Visiting Your Site

This week we’ll look at visiting your site and creating your record. Once you have identified a site you can consider visiting it to determine levels of preservation, take photographs and interpret surviving features.

August 7, 2017

Big Recording Month- Week 2: Finding Sites

This week we'll look at finding Home Front sites in your local area using readily available sources of information. There's plenty of information out there to help you start your Home Front journey and you don't need any

July 31, 2017

Big Recording Month- Week 1: Introduction to Home Front Legacy 1914-18

August is the Home Front Legacy Big Recording Month. During this month we aim to get as many people as possible recording sites throughout the UK. To help you get involved, we will be posting a new blog each week that focu

July 24, 2017

Home Front Legacy 1914-18: Big Recording Month

Home Front Legacy Needs You! Join Home Front Legacy 1914-18 for our big recording month. Throughout August we'll be encouraging people to research and record Home Front sites in their local area using our resources an

May 17, 2017

Home Front Legacy Young Person’s Resources Launch

We are proud to announce the launch of our new action-packed resources for youth groups, schools and families; designed to inspire the next generation of archaeologists and encourage participation in the UK wide Home

November 30, 2016

The Home Front in Britain 1914-18 nominated for book of the year!

We are pleased to announce that 'The Home Front in Britain 1914-18- An Archaeological Handbook’ that accompanies our project, has been nominated for 2017 Current Archaeology Awards 'Book of the Year'. Voting is open

August 31, 2016

Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson and the events of 3 September 1916

The air raid on the 2/3 September 1916 saw the first successful destruction of a German airship over mainland Britain. This raid, comprising of 14 airships, was to be the heaviest airship raid conducted by Germany agai

June 20, 2016

Home Front Legacy Spring 2016 update ‘The Build up to the Somme’

A UK-wide project helping communities record and map our First World War sites, coordinated by the Council for British Archaeology The Council for British Archaeology, Home Front Legacy 1914-18 project has made great