Life after Liberation
Reviewing the best military history exhibitions with Simon Coppock.
coastal defences
Newhaven Fort
Reviewing the best military history exhibitions with Carly Jones.
Newhaven Fort
An East Sussex landmark has reopened following a £7.5 million transformation. Carly Hilts reports on a recent site visit.
Scenting the past at Nothe Fort
Visitors to Nothe Fort in Weymouth will be able to share the olfactory experiences of the soldiers who once manned the Victorian coastal defences, during a special event featuring historically inspired smells in early March. Interactive demonstrations of evocative odours…
Excavations over the White Cliffs of Dover: Uncovering the Second World War story of Fan Bay and its surroundings
As we mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings this month, Carly Hilts reports on a visit to Fan Bay, near Dover, where Jon Barker showed her fascinating traces of Second World War coastal defences on the site and in the immediate area that are being investigated by the Wanstone Rediscovered project.
Work begins on major restoration of ‘innovative’ Sussex coastal fort
A major new restoration project is under way at the 150-year-old Newhaven Fort, which is one of the largest defensive works ever built in Sussex. The £7.5 million project aims to open up previously inaccessible areas of the fort, such…
Preserving a Palmerston Fort
The Historic Buildings Team from Cotswold Archaeology has recently carried out a detailed recording of Fort Gilkicker in Gosport. This fort is part of the Victorian defences around the town’s harbour. It is one of a number of structures known…
Remains of a radar station, Craster, Northumberland
More than 200 radar stations were dotted throughout Britain during the Second World War, although very few survive intact today. A number of these were Chain Home Low, or CHL stations, so named because they could detect enemy aircraft flying…
Long-lost pillbox found buried in sand on a beach near Aberdeen
Some 28,000 pillboxes were constructed around Britain on the outbreak of the war, in anticipation of an invasion by Axis forces.
Abandoned WWI fortress in Humber Estuary sold at auction
After the war, the fort briefly served as a peacetime garrison until the mid-1950s.