Welcome to another old front line trench chat. This week we're joined by Amy Harrison,

who's a military historian, former Commonwealth Wargaves Commission intern, and is currently

researching a PhD at the University of Kent in First World War, battlefield, tourism and landscape.

Welcome, Amy. Thanks for joining

us. Thank you very much. So I always start these by asking people, you know, how did your

interest in the Great War begin and do you have a personal connection to it? Yeah. I mean, my,

I suppose my kind of interest levels in it come in a way like most other people do, really.

I have a family link, but I also did start becoming more interested in the themes when I was a

teenager, really. And it was an interesting one that I actually became interested in the subject

without necessarily

knowing my family link first. So I remember at about the age of 14. I, for some reason, and I still

am not quite certain why, decided to print out the In Flanders Fields poem by John McCray and put

it up on my wall. And I can still remember the four thing today.

But I think that was my first kind of link. And I should probably have known at that point that

it was going to take over my life to the extent it really has. Yeah. And then it was a few years

later as I was an undergraduate where I started studying it, that I actually found out I had a number

of family links to the Great War itself. So buried along the Western Front, the closest

relatives I have are two great-great-uncles and my great-grandmother's first husband. So I'm in that interesting position as

well where if it wasn't for the Great War and the death of my great-grandmother's first husband,

I wouldn't be here today. So they've been really key to kind of developing my research

into the areas because it does provide that kind of family link

otherwise it just came through that academic side of it as well and that's been where it's

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