Heroic Women Walk
You start with Edith Cavell, the World War 1 nurse, before looking at the jobs women did in both world …
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Spanish Flu 100 years ago
The mass celebrations of the end of the war on the Home Fronts on November 11 bring people into close …
The Great War on TV – why no Home Front? no Women? no Spanish Flu?
Last week on TV we had a) 100 Days to Victory (documentary about a change of tactics in 1918 trench …
100 days to Victory Review
The first episode of this Tv documentary series was a mix of CGI, drama reconstructions, talking heads and archive footage. …
Did the Spanish Flu end the Great War? Blog 1: August to October 1918
Pre August the flu pandemic arrives in Europe. The flu may have started on a Kansas farm and been brought …
1918: The Home Front and the Spanish Flu in World War One Walk
This walk is about the London of exactly 100 years ago. There’s too much to go into detail here but …
Whitechapel GCSE/A Level Walk
This walk has been devised specifically for teachers of Whitechapel as a subject, and of course their pupils. This walk …
A Plague On Both Your Houses by Ian Porter – new novel set in 1918
Written by the author of acclaimed novels Whitechapel and Suffragette Autumn Women’s Spring, this novel is set in the East …
East End Immigration Walk
This is a Hugenot, German, Swedish, Irish, Jewish immigration walk. The walk starts in the late 17th century with the Hugenots. …
Hugenot, German, Irish, Swedish, Jewish East End Walk
The walk starts in the late 17th century with the Hugenots. Streets with names such as Fleur de Lis and …
