Bringing history to life

From the massacres of the first day to the muddy battlefield at the end, the Somme became a byword for the futility of war. Our World War One school battlefield tour gives students an understanding of the reality of war.

A school tour to walk the old front lines of the First day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916. Almost 60,000 casualties on that morning, with 20 000 of them dead. Walk in the footsteps of heroes of the First World War.

The horror of war in the Somme and Ypres Salient inspired First World War Poets like Owen, Sassoon, Graves, Edward Thomas, Edmund Blunden, and John Macrae the Canadian surgeon who wrote 'In Flanders Fields'.

Life behind the lines in the First World War, our Vets, Medics and Padres school tour looks at the tasks of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Veterinary Corps, and the role of Padres and Clerics.

A schools First World War tour invokes the spirit of a generation - volunteers from India, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and other parts of the Empire travelled across the globe for a cause they believed in - and died for.

A schools WW1 tour follows the young men who volunteered for Kitcheners 'New Army' in late 1914. Join together and serve together - a great recruiting slogan, but unfortunately many would also die together.

Three new Geographical Fieldwork Modules based around our WW1 Battlefield Tours in Ypres and the Somme, developed according to National Curriculum KS3 guidelines, or part of GCSE fieldwork in Year 10/11.