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Digging In Pollok Park: A Tour of the Trenches
By Euan Loarridge, Great War Project Editor
Satellite image of the Pollock Park trenches, taken 24/05/2018. Features are marked numerically and match the headings in this post. Google 2018.
For the past three years, Northlight Heritage, in partnership with the University of Glasgow and Glasgow City Council, has built and maintained a series of reconstruction trenches in the grounds of Pollok Country Park. As the centenary comes to a close, so to do the trenches, with the final open day taking place Sunday 9th of December 2018 (For more information see here). This post is the first of a two part blog which will take a virtual tour of the trenches explaining their purpose and how they have developed over the past three years. The second part of this blog will be made available on the DiggingIn Website.
Great War Lectures: Discourse on the First World War at the University of Glasgow
By Euan Loarridge, Blog Editor, University of Glasgow Great War Project.
RFC Cadets listening to a lecture at the University College Museum, Oxford University. November 1917. IWM Q 30279
With the centenary of the Battle of Third Ypres (Passchendaele) raging on, the University of Glasgow played host to two inspiring public lectures on the course and impact of the First World War. This post presents a short summary of these lectures and discusses some of the conclusions that were made.
Glasgow University's Great War Project 