Crunching the numbers on Spanish Flu in Raikeswood Camp
Harriet Purbrick, a final year History student at the University of Leeds, has conducted an analysis of the Spanish Flu figures for Raikeswood Camp as...
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Online Book Launch 29 April
German Prisoners of the Great War. Life in a Yorkshire Camp edited by Anne Buckley was published by Pen & Sword on 9 February 2021...
Friedrich Siems: Theatre Director in the Skipton Camp
The story of Friedrich Siems, who directed the theatre in the camp, has been researched by Harriet Purbrick, a University of Leeds History student who...
Mapping the homes of the Skipton prisoners
This blog post is the work of summer intern Joe Everitt, who has been mapping the home addresses of the Skipton prisoners. Alongside exploring the...
Grandson of German Senior Officer visits Skipton
On 12th July actor Wolf Kahler, the grandson of the senior German officer in the Skipton prisoner-of-war camp, Fritz Sachsse, officially opened our new information...
The Sick and Injured of Skipton Camp
This summer we have two student interns working on the project. One of them, Alice Craft, has been looking at the extent of the injuries...
Spanish flu hits the camp
In early 1919, 47 of the German prisoners of war from Raikeswood Camp died when an outbreak of Spanish Flu hit the camp. 42 of...
21 January 1918: 50 more German officers arrive from Colsterdale
On 21 January 1918 the third group of 50 German officer POWs made the journey from the camp at Colsterdale (5 miles west of Masham)...
19 January 1918: 2nd group of 50 German officers arrive in Skipton
On 19th January 1918 the second group of 50 German officer POWs made the journey from the camp at Colsterdale to Skipton, travelling by rail...
Centenary of German officers' arrival
This week is the centenary of the arrival of the first German officers to Raikeswood Camp. On January 17th, 19th and 21st 1918 50 prisoners...