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Join us to explore key aspects of the Great War in our popular annual seminar. This year's theme - Key faces, spaces and their impact.Frontline is a one-day focused history seminar, on an original Great War site, in an original Great War building. It's an annual, must-go event for the Great War history enthusiast. You will join a restricted number of your peers as you explore a specific area of this wide ranging and complicated field.
This year's confirmed speakers are:
Peter Hart - Peter worked for some 40 years as the oral historian for the Department of Sound Records, Imperial War Museum where he interviewed countless veterans. He has written several books on World War One and Two, is an experienced civilian/military tours guide and has appeared in numerous television documentaries. After retiring from the Imperial War Museum, Peter launched "Pete & Gary's Military History" podcast.
Peter's Talk is titled: I'm Out: Escape from German POW Camps, 1914-18.
Steve Erskine - Steve is the Regimental Researcher at the Green Howards Museum and a Freelance Battlefield Guide. He holds a master’s degree (with Merit) in British First World War Studies from Birmingham University (2008). Steve is a regular feature on the public speaking circuit, he was a Keynote speaker at the Peace & Security conference in Catania, Sicily in July 2023 and the Thirtieth Annual War College of the Seven Years' War at Fort Ticonderoga in New York State in May 2026. He has also written for Britain at War Magazine.
Steve's Talk is titled: A loyal and simple soldier. Lt.-Gen. Sir David Henderson, father of the RAF?
Kelsey Ellington - Kelsey is a public historian and researcher specialising in World War One aviation and the human experience of flight. Her work explores pilot training, masculinity, and the psychological and physiological challenges faced by early military aviators. She has worked with museums and heritage organisations and regularly shares research-led public history through digital media.
Kelsey's talk is titled : What Makes a Good Pilot? Dr Martin Flack and the Search for the Right Mind to Fly
The day includes up-close and personal tours of aircraft and object handling sessions, as well as lunch in the original 1917 mess, now The Airmen's Mess café.
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Event Venue
Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome, Hackmans Lane, Purleigh, Near Maldon,, Chelmsford, United Kingdom, Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome, Chelmsford, CM3 6, United Kingdom, Danbury
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