In the Woods and Clouds: Visiting the Asiago Plateau Battlefields (Part Two)

For the first stop of the tour we drove to the Taverna Cimbra off the SP72, and took the foot path up to the top of the ridge near to the Linta Hotel, to look over the plateau and Asiago. On 29 May 1916, the inhabitants of Asiago were given 8 hours to evacuate when

In the Woods and Clouds: Visiting the Asiago Plateau Battlefields (Part One)

In September, while holidaying in Italy, I went on a Battlefield tour of the Asiago Plateau.  During the First World War Italy was on the allied side and the threat of invasion came from Austro-Hungary to the north. The Italian front was therefore set high up in the mountains; the Alps and the Dolomites.  Major

Beautiful Homes, Beautiful Work, and a Beautiful World: The Peterborough Women’s Land Army Rally, September 1918

A couple of photographs were given to me in the archives centre, by local historian Stephen Perry who tasked me with finding out what was happening in them. The photographs showed a very well attended parade in Peterborough City Centre and written across the bottom were the words, ‘women’s war workers rally’ and the date