Tales from the Battlefields
Tales from the Battlefields
Terry Whenham
87: Battlefield Pilgrimages Between the Wars with Professor Mark Connolly
1 hour 2 minutes Posted May 16, 2024 at 8:00 am.
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In this episode we talk to Mark Connolly about how battlefield tours evolved during and after World War 1. We discuss who these first pilgrims were and what they saw and emotionally experienced on the old Western Front battlefields? Who was the schoolteacher who went across to France on a battlefield tour in 1914 and how did charitable organisations arrange and fund the initial post war private tours?