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October 8, 2015

Clipstone Camp

View of Clipstone Camp showing Accommodation Huts and Ablutions BlocksClipstone Camp was located near Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire. It was a vast wooden hutted military camp established to train the men of Kitchener's New

August 25, 2015

CBA North - Home Front Legacy Day School

CBA North Home Front Legacy Day School Our latest day school took us to the magnificant World Heritage Site at Durham. We were privileged to hold the Day School at Durham University Library, Archives and Specia

July 15, 2015

Home Front Legacy 1914 -18 Our Day School Programme

Our day school programme is now taking shape. We are holding these events across the country from North to South and West to East and ultimately across the UK. The contribution of our participants is vital, those people

July 7, 2015

Banbury’s First World War Munitions Factory

On the edge of Banbury about 20 miles North of Oxford, lies the overgrown and overlooked site of ' National Filling Factory No. 9', one of only two surviving First World War Lyddite shell filling factories in Britain, a

June 16, 2015

Drill Halls

Drill Halls at the onset of the Great War The Territorial Force had been established in 1908 to provide a reserve of trained men to defend the country in war and allow the regular forces to be deployed overseas. Each unit

June 15, 2015

Blackpool’s Hidden First World War Trenches

  July 2014 Week two of our community excavation, digging the WW1 training trenches under Watson Road Park, Blackpool, produced some exciting, but also difficult archaeology. After day two the weather was

March 11, 2015

Recording workshops

The Council for British Archaeology will be running a series of Home Front Legacy community workshops in England during 2015, funded by Historic England. Join us to find out how to research and record First World Wa

January 29, 2015

Welcome to our Home Front Legacy blog

Share your First World War places and research projects through our Home Front Legacy blog. Get in touch with our team to share your story. Home Front Legacy's First Day School! 25 April 2015 Presentations made on

March 3, 2014

Practice trenches

Preparing troops for battle It is commonly believed that ill-trained troops were sacrificed in the trench war against the Germans on the Western Front. But archaeological evidence in England, in the form of elaborate trai

February 12, 2014

TERRAIN MODEL

Volunteers at Cannock Chase led by No Man's Land, the European Group for Great War Archaeology, recently excavated the only known Great War terrain model in the United Kingdom. Built by German prisoners of war and men from