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.
