140,000 Chinese farmers and students worked in terrible conditions on the battlefields of World War 1 for the British and French armies. Almost 2,000 gave their lives digging trenches and… Read More »From Chinese Wheat Fields to the Battlefields of WW1
100 years ago this month, Lance Corporal Joseph Alexander Wilmerdinge Peterson died of injuries sustained on the battlefield during World War 1. In this week’s story, we discover more about… Read More »Remembering: Joseph Alexander Wilmerdinge Peterson
One of the objectives of ‘The Last Goodbye’ learning resource is to share with students an essence of the multiple perspectives and cultural intersections involved in World War 1. Any… Read More »The Ottoman Craftsmen of Çanakkale Savasi
Do history, heritage and museum collections have value in the school curriculum for enabling students to explore themes around social justice and global citizenship? This is a question we are… Read More »The Last Goodbye: Personal Experiences of WW1
With the Covid-19 pandemic both limiting travel horizons and providing a powerful reminder of global community, we have spent the last few months on a virtual journey visiting a World… Read More »Saving Our Planet’s Heritage
UNESCO is monitoring the closure of World Heritage Sites to the public during the pandemic. As of 3rd August, 34% are open, 40% closed and 26% partially open. However work… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 19
105 years ago, this week, British, Commonwealth, French and Turkish soldiers were in the midst of conflict at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli Peninsula. One of these was Walter Ormonde… Read More »An Islander at Gallipoli
Great to see the Department of Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee in the UK’s report on the impact of Covid-19 published. The sentiment expressed by its Chairman hits the… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 18
Covid-19 raises and amplifies ethical questions for every citizen and every country in the world. Reflecting on some of the places visited just over the last 7 days. The Pacific… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 16
Huge thanks to students at Gosport and Fareham Multi-Academy Trust who have researched and contributed objects and stories for our World War 1 Explorer resource. Their discoveries have taken them… Read More »Peace and Conflict: World War 1 Explorer
The political tensions building between the USA and Japan over imperial ambitions in the Pacific during the early C20th, impacted on a thriving international trade in Chinese and Japanese antique… Read More »Hidden Stories: A Japanese Antiques Dealer and American Collector
Our family has a special letter written by my grandmother to one of her sisters on 20th May 1945. Back then, she lived in the Thornton Heath suburb of London,… Read More »A WW2 (VE Day) Letter Between Sisters