Blogs about: Memorials From The Archive
Remote Peakland Crash Site Remembered
ukniwm2 wrote 1 month ago: This article was submitted by Derbyshire Volunteer Co-ordinator, Roy Branson Many aeroplanes crashed … more →
Ross District war memorial and the Romans
ukniwm2 wrote 4 months ago: This article was submitted by UKNIWM volunteer fieldworker Gordon Amand You may wonder what have Rom … more →
Memorials to the Missing of Fromelles
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ukniwm2 wrote 4 months ago: article by UKNIWM Project Officer, Frances Casey The anniversary of the Battle of the Somme on 1st J … more →
Mary Seacole and the Common Soldier in the Crimea
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ukniwm2 wrote 8 months ago: by UKNIWM office volunteer Richard Graham The National Portrait Gallery has recently acquired a port … more →
Investigation Dismisses Murder Mystery?
ukniwm2 wrote 9 months ago: article by UKNIWM office volunteer Richard Graham Naturally, most of the memorials we record are to … more →
Major Peirson is Avenged
ukniwm2 wrote 1 year ago: One of the most striking paintings, and one of the largest, in Tate Britain is ‘The death of M … more →
Last Survivor of HMS Hood Dies
ukniwm2 wrote 1 year ago: The last survivor of the sinking of the World War Two battle cruiser HMS Hood died in October at the … more →
Olympians at war
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: In this Olympic year I have been asked if there are war memorials to Olympic performers. This is rat … more →
The missing memorials of Sir William Reynolds-Stephens
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: Sir William Reynolds-Stephens (1862-1943), knighted in 1931, President of the Royal Society of Briti … more →
Tempelhof Airlift airport to close
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: There was news last week that Tempelhof airport in Berlin is to close in October 2008. The vast, se … more →
Happy Birthday, blog!
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: This blog has now been up and running for a year! Over that time we’ve published 181 posts cov … more →
Malaria and conflict
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: Today is World Malaria Day. Although malaria has been eradicated from much of the western world, it … more →
Shakespeare and the Battle of Shrewsbury
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday was the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, so I’ve found a topical war memori … more →
The sinking of the Lusitania
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: Barbara McDermott, one of the two remaining survivors of the RMS Lusitania, died on 12 April. The Br … more →
War in Waziristan
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ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: There’s an interesting article on the BBC News website today about a mountainous region of Nor … more →
The useful and the unusual
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: ‘Useful’ war memorials are certainly less common than the purely symbolic form, but plen … more →
The Merchant Navy
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: I was reading an interesting book on the bus on the way into work this morning – ‘Tracin … more →
A child's Christmas treat
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: This is a fascinating photograph I discovered in our collection. It shows a temporary memorial, con … more →
90th anniversary of the Royal Air Force
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: It’s 90 years to the day that the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were merg … more →
