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It gives me enormous pleasure to bring to your attention a very special WW1 Centenary project that has just been officially launched: The Big Picture.

I am delighted to announce that my latest book ‘The First World War Fact Book’ is now available not just in Kindle format, but also as a paperback. The fact book holds 1,568 facts on [...]

To celebrate the launch of my brand new Kindle e-book ‘The First World War Fact Book’ I thought it might be fun to offer you all a sneak preview of some of the stats and facts hiding [...]

John Rimmer was born in Blackburn in 1895, and as a child attended both the Norfolk Street Day School and St Francis’ Church Sunday school. There is little detail available of his early life, but [...]

A recent YouGov survey of 1,955 British adults seems to indicate that there is a general lack of knowledge and understanding in Britain about even the basic facts of the First World War. Some of [...]

Today, 7th June marks the anniversary of the Battle of Messines Ridge… The Messines Ridge, situated a few thousand yards to the south of the town of Ypres, had been taken by the Germans in [...]

I know what you are thinking: Not another book on the First World War!! To a certain extent, I do sympathise with you. If you type in ‘WW1’ in the books section of Amazon.co.uk you [...]

I went to look at a prospective new house at the weekend. It was a lovely cottage that is older than America, in a pretty village called Codford, nestled in the Wylye valley. The place we looked [...]

If you are a history teacher in a secondary school then we may have something that interests you… Following on from the success of our WW1 infographics app we have printed a short run of [...]

We have a new Facebook page – www.facebook.com/militaryresearchUK – and we would love it if you join us. On our page you will find pictures, photos and stories from our military [...]