The troglodyte nature of the Great War where men lived in trenches across vast swathes of northern Europe

was one of the unique aspects of that conflict of 1914-18.

What was trench warfare and what survives of it today.

As we begin to move the podcast forward into new directions, particularly as the ability to travel to the battlefields of the Great War begins once more, which I hope it will

either late summer or into early autumn of this year,

and we'll be able to record episodes on the ground itself.

I want to expand the range of things that we do.

The podcast is about the battlefields of the Great War, about that old front line,

but it's also about the history of it too, and I want to have

some more episodes where we focus on that history and aspects of it. In particular, I know

that a large number of people who work in education listen to the podcast, and they like to have

useful chunks of it that they can use with their students to understand the wider aspects

of First World War history. So we'll begin that this week with a look at First World War

trench warfare on the Western Front, largely from a British and Commonwealth perspective,

but we'll touch on obviously other aspects of it in particular

the difference with the German approach to trench warfare on their side of the battlefield.

So lots of new ideas in the pipeline for the podcast. One of those for those of you are very kind

to support the podcast via Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee is I'm going to be doing a free

online talk. I sent a message round to all of you recently, which I hope you've got, but I thought

to put it in here just to pick up those of you who hadn't seen that message. Keep an eye on your

messages there because I'll be sending you a link so you can come and join that talk, which

will be

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