Dr Barry Blades

Author of ‘Roll of Honour' (2015) and ‘Teachers at the Front’ (2021). Now working on ‘Little Soldiers’, the final part of the Schooling & the Great War trilogy.

[Dr Barry Blades @ww1schools]

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[1st July 1916 Officer Roll of Honour @July1st1916]

@LydiaJane13j @jamesjhistory nice book photos with brief details of loss. @Books2Cover

[Dr Barry Blades @ww1schools]

Delighted to see #RollOfHonour in paperback! Many thanks to @penswordbooks @IOE_ICHRE @SarahAitchiso10 @AnthonySeldon

[Great War Reading @GreatWar100Yrs]

#NewBook Now available in paperback: Roll of Honour – Schooling and the Great War 1914-1919 by @ww1schools. 📚

'A real "tour de force" and very informative.' ~Dr Charles Barber

🛒 https://t.co/bn7tlL7jaZ #WW1

[Sarah Aitchison @SarahAitchiso10]

Delighted to be working on this project with @DrGinaB using materials from @UCLSpecColl and @UCLRecords.

[Castle Rising @Risinga2020]

@ww1schools

[Dr Barry Blades @ww1schools]

Many thanks Tom @Kensingtons for producing this podcast for @TheWFA - very much appreciated!

[Dr Barry Blades @ww1schools]

Well done Simon - great to see one of my former students representing one of my former alma mater!

[Pen & Sword Books @penswordbooks]

#WW1 Podcast: Episode 235 of @TheWFA's #MentionedInDispatches podcast with @Kensingtons:

🎙 Teachers during the Great War – @ww1schools, author of Roll of Honour and Teachers at the Front.

🎧 https://t.co/T9lJs64OKB #CatchUp

[Dr Stephen Clarke @StephenClarkeNZ]

Between High and Delville Woods for five days from 15 September 1916 my great-grandfather Sgt Edward Dillion (of Mansford Town, Port Chalmers) picked up the living and the dead. Another relative, never found. This is one place where history grabs me by the throat. #Somme #history

[Fallen Diggers @FallenDiggers]

Lest We Forget. Fromelles 19th-20th of July 1916.

[Aust War Memorial @AWMemorial]

105 years ago, an attack at Fromelles was ultimately a futile military operation. In one of the darkest 24 hours in our history 5,533 Australians were killed, wounded and captured. German casualties were light and the Australians gained no ground. https://t.co/L4GmIBTfhe

[Taff Gillingham @Taff_Gillingham]

@ww1schools Our pleasure, Barry.
Thank you for a great talk and for helping everyone to get back into the swing of things!

[Dr Barry Blades @ww1schools]

Many thanks to a most appreciative and welcoming audience at Suffolk WFA.

[Taff Gillingham @Taff_Gillingham]

It’s good to be back.
Our first Suffolk WFA meeting has just kicked off at the freshly revamped and Covid-regulated Stowmarket RBL Club.
Our first ‘live’ speaker in 15 months is @ww1schools, telling us all about ‘Teachers at the Front’.
😁👍🏻

[1st July 1916 Officer Roll of Honour @July1st1916]

There is a picture of 2nd Lt Wardrop in this book. For King's and Country The Story of the Seventy Old Boys of Macclesfield Grammar School who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-19

[Auckland Museum @aucklandmuseum]

We have just uploaded an almost complete run of the
Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F. #WWI https://t.co/sDBu2cs5Xd

[PRH191418 @QMGS191418]

QMGS 1914-18 NMA refurbished. It will be placed back at the tree by QMGS students on Monday 28 June. @GenBolivar (hopefully at the right tree this time🤔🤔).

[Genevra Charsley @FlandersBTour]

“Don’t Forget Me Cobber.”

The Cobbers Memorial & VC Corner Australian Cemetery & Memorial, Fromelles.

[Peter Parker @PParkerWriting]

“In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.”
#Talleyrand, born 17 May 1838

[Glasgow Accies 160 @hugh_barrow]

The devastating effect of WW1 starting to be felt in school sport 16th Nov 1914 @TGAArchive @SportsTGA @HSofG @GlasgowAccies @Hampdeners

[Dr Barry Blades @ww1schools]

New book on #WA #Anzacs on sale in #Australia from this Wednesday = Teachers at the Front, 1914-1919 | Angus & Robertson ⁦@penswordbooks⁩ ⁦@iandloftus⁩ ⁦@RSLWA⁩ @⁦ANZHistEdSoc⁩ ⁦⁦@AWMemorial⁩ https://t.co/yTqejyDxf4