Posts by Dr George Hay Records and researchMerchant Navy shipwrecks in the First World WarFriday 17 February 2017Battles and diplomacy tend to dominate the narrative of the war, but little of...Records and researchBattle of the AncreFriday 18 November 2016This is the last in our series of blogs marking the contribution of Commonwealth...Behind the scenesGiving leadership a nameMonday 3 October 2016George Hay on re-cataloguing the WO 374 First World War officers’ files …...Records and research‘Giving the Turks a drubbing’: The Battle of RomaniFriday 5 August 2016100 years ago, the Battle of Romani took place 23 miles east of the...Records and researchRiding for the G in GAPThursday 14 July 2016Dr George Hay looks at the charge of the 20th Deccan Horse cavalry brigade...Records and researchHow were British victims of Nazi persecution compensated?Thursday 31 March 2016In 1964, the West German state agreed to provide the British government with £1...Records and research‘I trust it will be the last battle we shall any of us see’: remembering Waterloo, 200 years onThursday 18 June 2015In the middle of the First World War centenary period we find ourselves marking...Records and researchDelivering the goodsMonday 23 March 2015One notable milestone on the path to industrialised, ‘total’ war was the increased importance...Records and research‘Munitions, more munitions, always more munitions’Friday 13 March 2015One hundred years ago today, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle was in its closing...Records and research‘The tragedy of the shells’Thursday 5 March 2015This is the first of three blog posts that will look at the establishment...Records and research‘German havoc in English homes’Tuesday 16 December 2014Our tendency to view the First World War through the prism of the Western... « 1 2