What can two exhibitions housed in two of the most important military museums that connect us to the history of the Great War?

What can they tell us about that landscape of the conflict?

What layers can they add to our wider knowledge of the First World War and our

understanding of that old front line?

Something a bit different in this week's podcast as I hope you will see and I hope you'll enjoy.

Although we now a decade past the centenary of the Great War, museums covering the conflicts

continue to engage audiences with fresh displays of material and special exhibitions.

As we often say on this podcast, the last page of the history of the Great War will probably never be turned.

And there is, in some ways, more and more for us to learn.

The Great War Centenary didn't kind of cap the subject, end it somehow.

I remember on the 11th of November 2018, saying just that on social media.

In some respects, the end of the centenary was a new beginning.

How do we continue to make the Great War relevant for new generations beyond that

centenary and museums have a really important part to play in that special exhibitions in

these museums in particular can be fascinating and engaging and genuinely shed new light on these many layers of the

Great War that again we often talk about on the old front line and I think it's a good way to see

it that new material comes to light and it does shed something it does bring new emphasis to one of these layers. And once we

kind of put those layers together, again using that analogy of a kind of jigsaw, we're beginning

to see the Great War in more than one kind of perspective, really, that it's not just about the military deeds and daring

and valor on the battlefields there's so much more to it recently i was out on the great war battlefields

now being in kent now enables me to get across to those battlefields much easier, including on day trips.

And I went over with my friend John and we travelled down to Epe to visit one such special exhibition

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