October 8, 2015
Case studies
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
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
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