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...
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...
20 Nov 1917: Skipton Urban Council pass motion to accept POWs into Raikeswood Camp
A meeting of Skipton Urban District council was held in the Town Hall that evening. The council was clearly in a bit of a quandary....
17 November 1917: German U-boat crew captured off Ireland
On 17 November 1917 at 4.10 p.m. German submarine U.58 was preparing to attack a convoy off the Irish coast which was being escorted by...
Hermann von Bredow and the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight
Heligoland is a small island some 30 miles off the north German coast. It was occupied by the British from 1807 until 1890 when it...