Sunday, 24 November 2024

Beau Geste (1982)

 BBC series based on the 1924 novel.  Wiki. On TPTV. Watch episode 1 on Encore. I enjoyed it. 


Tuesday, 12 November 2024

In the Dark: Underground warfare 1914-1918 (1:40)


 Lecture by Simon Jones. Here

Simon Jones is a freelance military historian, battlefield guide and former museum curator. He is author of Underground Warfare 1914-1918 (2010), a subject which he has been studying for more than thirty years. His talk examines the war beneath the trenches in which an ancient method of warfare was revived on a massive scale using modern technology and a highly skilled civilian workforce.

  • What was military mining during 1914-18?
  • Profile of miners & mining engineers enlisted.
  • Technology & explosives.
  • Underground tactics.
  • Evaluation of military effectiveness.

Presenter Simon Jones Simon is a former curator at English Heritage and the Royal Engineers and King's Regiment Museums. He has taught at Liverpool and Lancaster Universities and was lead historian for the exploration of a tunnel system and archaeology on the Somme at La Boisselle, 2011-2015. He blogs at SimonJonesHistorian.com.