Our Friends

We work with these organisations to enhance the historical experiences of those visiting battlefield sites

 

The Municipality of Almeida

The Guild is proud to work with the Municipality of Almeida, an area in eastern Portugal with many historical connections.  The Municipality has welcomed visiting Guild members on many occasions, and has a range of facilities from which members and their clients can benefit.  In addition to Almeida itself, there are other battle sites nearby which warrant inclusion on battlefield tour itineraries.

In Flanders Fields Museum

In Flanders Museum is one of the key features of the Western Front battlefields at Ieper.  We are proud to have a relationship with the museum in which our members are welcome to work in the research centre and take groups to the museum.  The museum has a permanent exhibition covering the history of WW1 and the battles at Ypres.  There are frequent temporary exhibitions that focus on aspects of confrontation or particular themes of WW1.

British Commission for Military History

The Guild of Battlefield Guides is proud to work with the British Commission for Military History in several joint ventures providing benefits for the members of both organisations.  This includes but is not limited to:

  • Richard Holmes Lectures
  • Conferences

The British Commission for Military History was founded in 1965 as the national branch of
the International Commission for Military History.  It serves as a forum for the discussion and
promotion of military history in the broadest sense, without restriction as to period or region.
The Object of the BCMH is to promote through research, publication and discussion the
understanding of military history in the broadest sense, without restriction as to period or
region.
The BCMH strives to become a leading members’ group for military history, offering an
appealing range of activities, dynamic in research, discussion and publication, and recognized
both for the quality of our work and our social esprit, while attracting and retaining members
from a wide set of backgrounds, whether professionally engaged or not.

SplashMaps

The Guild of Battlefield Guides is proud to work with SplashMaps, whose Military & History collection of maps cover famous battle grounds of the past and current training grounds.

A SplashMap is part of the essential equipment for tour guiding. The whole concept is based upon the perfect preppers or even escape and evasion maps from the WW2 era. How better to share pivotal moments in history, train for future battles or prepare for survival than with a SplashMap in your pack?

CWGC

The Guild of Battlefield Guides is proud to work with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in several joint ventures providing benefits for the members of both organisations. This includes but is not limited to:

  • Guided tours of Commission cemeteries by GBG members
  • Research tools for members leading commercial tours

Battlefields Trust

The Guild of Battlefield Guides is proud to work with the Battlefields Trust in several joint ventures providing benefits for the members of both organisations. This includes but is not limited to:

  • Richard Holmes Lectures
  • Internet Presentations
  • Battlefield walks. Tours/guiding
  • Conferences

SECRET WW2

The Secret WW2 Learning Network

The Secret WW2 Learning Network (SECRET WW2 for short) is an educational charity aiming to create greater public awareness of the contributions and experiences of the men and women who took part during WW2 in Allied special operations, intelligence-gathering and resistance.  Based on its guiding principles to ‘educate, commemorate and inspire’, we have established a unique partner network of historians, researchers, authors, associations, museums, local communities, and media outlets who work with the charity’s Trustees and volunteers to develop learning initiatives and special commemorative events.  This network includes serving personnel, and veterans, of British and Allied armed forces.

SECRET WW2 events include: lectures; presentations (including by Zoom); walk & talk events; and special events, such as the installation of plaques and information boards at relevant historical sites, nationally and internationally.  We have access to a unique archive of filmed personal testimony from more than a hundred British ‘secret warriors’ and French resisters which provides a key resource to help bring recognition to these remarkable people and their wartime exploits.  We also offer annual bursaries; sponsor relevant publications; and some of our trustees lead Battlefield Tours and Battlefield Studies for SECRET WW2 Friends and some British and foreign military units.  SECRET WW2 is also associated with ‘SOE Expeditions’, a company specialising in SOE and SF Endurance and Survival Expeditions.  More details of Events, News and Resources, and how to become a ‘Friend’ or ‘Supporter’ (and the associated benefits) are available on our website:  https://secret-ww2.net/

SECRET WW2  was established in 2014 and is registered in the UK as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) No. 1156796.