PROJECTS
Ivor’s Flying Career and the Empire Air Training Scheme – Lord Peter Ricketts
An airman’s experiences in the largest air training project in history and how Ivor shot himself down in a Spitfire!…
Enfants de Paris: avant que la mémoire ne s’efface – Philippe Apeloig
Un nouveau projet pour recenser les plaques commémoratives parisiennes de la 2nde guerre mondiale et créer une installation d’art visuel…
Children of Paris: Before Memory Fades – Philippe Apeloig
A new project to record the wartime memorials of Paris and create a visual art installation onto the Pantheon walls…
3 Days to Christmas: a French Toy Story 1944 Dr Jean-Paul Churet*
During the height of WWII, French airmen, exiled from their children and families brought Christmas Spirit to children in Britain.…
Trois jours avant Noël 1944 (version française) J-P Churet
Au plus fort de la guerre, les Français loin de leurs familles ont pensé au Noël des petits Anglais…
A Polish Corporal’s Journey to Monte Cassino – Christopher Cytera.
The despoilation of Poland, and a young soldier’s extraordinary journey to join the Allies and General Anders Army in Italy.…
Why We Remember Remembrance – – – Ian Reed
A brief look at the history, symbols and the relevance of Remembrance and why it is still important today. …
Plumetot 1944 – Return of the Polish Air Force to Europe – Richard Kornicki
(In English and en francais). Restablishment of the Polish Air Force within the RAF and their return to the continent…
A Letter from Paris 1944 – Mme Hélène Sergejew
Recently discovered letter from Occupied France – How civilians risked their lives protecting allied servicemen – in her own words.…
Château de Lantheuil – “V.E.” Day Memorial – Baron Durandy de Naurois-Turgot
A proposed new memorial for a classical French Château with a unique wartime past near the D-Day beaches of Normandy.…
Researching Trouan’s Lancasters – Jean Oddou & Pascal Pierre
Another deadly night for Bomber Command – two Frenchmen search for two of the 42 Lancasters lost over their town…
The Battle of Britain – 80th Anniversary – Never has so much been owed…
The Battle of Britain Speech by Ian Reed at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris on 15 September 2020. …