'A wee bit of War' is the only podcast dedicated to telling the stories of Northern Ireland during the Second World War. Join Scott and a host of guests now.
26th September 2023
We recently attended We Have Ways Fest and answered a lot of questions about life in Northern Ireland in the Second World War. Here are a few of the most asked.
28th June 2023
WartimeNI's Scott Edgar is a fan of history and of ice hockey. In this episode, he goes back to 1939 to reveal the history of Belfast's first ice hockey stars.
31st May 2023
Dr. Joseph Quinn (University of Oxford) chats about Their Finest Hour, a Second World War digital humanities project before diving into life in wartime Ulster.
26th April 2023
Sam Robinson, historian and die-hard fan of Glentoran F.C. joined us to talk about Tom Pearson, the Irish Guards, the Belfast Blitz, and going on at The Oval.
22nd February 2023
Rebecca Brownlie is a photographer and the author of 'Abandoned Ireland'. In this episode, we take a look at some of Ulster's Second World War heritage sites.
25th January 2023
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, we talked with Dr. Christine Schmidt of Wiener Holocaust Library in London about Kindertransport and the library's work.
21st December 2022
In this episode, we caught up with Allan Esler Smith to talk about Brian Desmond Hurst, a Belfast-born acclaimed filmmaker responsible for ten wartime movies.
30th November 2022
Lorna Quin is a former teacher from Mullaghglass P.S. in Co. Armagh. In recent years, she has collected an array of stories of Second World War life in Ulster.
26th October 2022
Dr. James O'Neill works on mapping Northern Ireland's Defence Heritage from The Great War through to The Troubles but most sites date to the Second World War.
28th September 2022
By the Second World War, Alex Liggett was a 30-year-old Corporal in the Royal Tank Regiment. From Portadown to Palestine, Dunkirk to demob, this is his story.
31st August 2022
In the later years of the Second World War, Northern Ireland housed thousands of German prisoners of war. Who were they and what was life like for a P.O.W?
27th July 2022
Michael Fryer is the Outreach Officer with Northern Ireland War Memorial in Belfast. He kindly joined us for a special podcast episode to mark Pride Week 2022.
29th June 2022
Adrian Hack is a tour guide and fountain of knowledge on all things related to Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim in the Second World War including the U.S. Rangers.
25th May 2022
Rachel Sayers is a historian with a passion for Irish history and the fashions of the 20th-century. She joins us to talk about wartime wardrobes in Ulster.
14th May 2022
Professor Hal Sosabowski joins us to talk about his great-grandfather General Sosabowski, his role in Operation Market Garden, and a famous East Belfast mural.
27th April 2022
The diaries of Doreen Bates offer a fascinating insight into life in Belfast during the Blitz of 1941. We talked to author Lucy Caldwell and Doreen's daughter D
31st March 2022
Some special guests join Scott Edgar to lend their voices to the women who witnessed and documented the Belfast Blitz including Doreen Bates and Emma Duffin.
30th March 2022
23rd February 2022
Dr. Simon Topping (University of Plymouth) joins Scott Edgar to talk about his new book and life in Northern Ireland for blacks GIs during the Second World War.
27th January 2022
Holocaust survivor Rachel Levy joins Scott Edgar to talk about life, including time spent on a Refugee Resettlement Farm in Millisle, Co. Down.
26th January 2022
Scott Edgar is joined by Irish-American author and filmmaker Mary Pat Kelly to talk about the book and documentary 'Home Away From Home'.
14th January 2022
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