Stepping Hill Hospital

The discovery of a book belonging to a nurse who worked at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital during the First World War has provided an artistic glimpse into the lives of both soldiers and nurses at the time.

Soldiers in Stepping Hill Hospital

World War one brought a flood of minorities from all over the world to Britain for employment opportunities or through involvement with the Allied Forces.

Radio Merseyside

Last week on 11th November, the University of Chester’s Dr. Hannah Ewence and Ann Marie Curtis of the St. Werburgh’s Great War Study Group, visited BBC Radio Merseyside to talk about the Belgian refugees and soldiers who lived, recovered, and died in Cheshire during the First World War.

American Soldiers and the Influenza Pandemic

Wherever it began and whatever its actual identity, the 1918 flu pandemic hit the world in three main waves.