🤝 Links and Partnerships,
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Selected partner websites

Links and partnerships

This page brings together external archives, research institutions, specialist historians, authors, and partner museums that complement my battlefield studies, museum artefacts, and reading guides on this site. I have partnered with many of these people and institutions in researching, exploring and writing battle studies.

These resources include digitised primary documents, regimental histories, academic research centres, and independent historians whose work has contributed to my own studies. Each link is curated for relevance and quality, helping readers explore a deeper layer of historical material beyond this site.

This is a living document, and I will continue to build and add as new partnerships develop!

🏛️ Museums & Battlefield Institutions

• https://www.effetdecerf.fr/. Website of the Patay Victory museum in the village of Patay, north of Orleans. Run by my friends Rene and Regina and commemorating theBattle of Patay in June 1429, where Jeanne d’Arc and the French army gained a stunning victory over the English Army – revenge for Agincourt!
• https://museebloodygulch.com/ The Museum of Bloody Gulch (Manoir Donville) is a small museum right on the Bloody Gulch battlefield west of Carentan. The Manoir Donville was the headquarters site for 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division (Götz von Berlichingen) during the battle in June 1944.
• https://www.kalkriese-varusschlacht.de/en/index.html. The Varus Battle Museum at Kalkriese in northern Germany is both a museum and an archaeological site. Here, in AD 9, three Roman legions under General Varus were destroyed by a confederation of German tribes under their leader Arminius, in what became known as the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. Stefan, the Chief Archaeologist, hosted me for an exploration of the site in September 2025.  
• Musée de la Légion étrangère. The Foreign Legion Museum at Aubagne in southern France holds the Legion archives and legendary items like the wooden hand of Capitaine Danjou, and the flag saved at Phu Tong Hoa.
• Utah Beach Landing Museum. The Utah Beach museum is located right on Utah Beach and hosts a superb collection of artefacts and vehicles. The museum was founded Michel de Vallavieille, the then-mayor of Saint-Marie-du-Mont. Michel was the owner of Brecourt Manor, site of Easy Company ‘Band of Brothers’ legendary assault on D-Day morning. His son, Charles de Vallavielle, hosted me in November 2024 for an exploration of the Brecourt Manor battle site.
• Ligny 1815 Museum. The fabulous Ligny Museum commemorates the Battle of Ligny between Napoleon’s 65,000 troops and Field Marshal Blücher’s 87,000 Prussian troops on 16 June 1815, two days prior to Waterloo.
• Ladysmith Siege Museum, South Africa. The Ladysmith Siege Museum covers the 1899-1900 siege during the Anglo-Boer War.  A great starting point for exploring the Boer War sites around KwaZulu-Natal.
• Talana Museum, Kwazulu Natal. Commemorates the Battle of Talana, 20 October 1899, one of the opening battles of the 2nd Anglo-Boer War. One of the best museums in the battleefield area
• Dundee Tourism website. Dundee, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, is right in the heart of the Anglo-Zulu and Anglo-Boer War sites. I first visited Dundee back in 2000 and came away with some fabulous Anglo-Zulu War era antiques!
• Pennsylvania Cable TV (PCNTV). PCNTV is one of the foremost public history sites in the United States. BattlefieldTravels.com worked with PCNTV to provide 3D battlefield visualisation for the 2025 documentary of the Battle of Bushy Run (1763)

📚 Academic & Digital Libraries

• www.smh-hq.org. Website of the Society for Military History, including journals and back issues over many years.
• Internet Archive. Internet Archive is an incredible resource for almost any document you can imagine.  Older books and documents are often downloadable. Full copies of more recently published books can be temporarily borrowed. 
• Project Gutenberg The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organisation, is sustained by thousands of volunteers who digitise and proofread books. Any book that has passed its copyright expiration (generally after 95 years) becomes available for digital download.  An incredibly rich source!.
• Gallica – Bibliothèque nationale de France Gallica is like the French version of Project Gutenberg, with hundreds of thousands of digitised rare books, images and documents that are not available elsewhere.

⚔️ Independent Historians & Specialist Sites

• www.britishbattles.com. A comprehensive series of detailed battle studies from the Roman era to WW1. Most are British battles, but some crossover into battles involving Britain’s allies.
• www.battlefieldanomalies.com. An excellent website providing detailed battlefield studies across multiple eras, including virtual tours. The site also includes associated subjects like pre-CGI depictions of battles in movies. Highly recommended!
• https://foreignlegion.info/. French Foreign Legion Info is an amazing site covering all aspects of the Legion, including unit histories, and even how to enlist in the Legion! An incredibly useful resource as I have explored the battlefields of the French 1880s colonial campaigns in Indochina, the French Indochina War, the Franco-Prussian War, Algerian War, and many other campaigns.
• 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment) A highly detailed website run by Joe McD covering the WW1 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force, right down to profiles of individual members of the battalion. The site is also a fabulous gateway into other WW1 CEF resources like unit War Diaries.
• Obscure Battles. Jeff Berry runs a blog covering many obscure (and not so obscure) battlefields. He also produces the most amazing, detailed battle maps, probably the best I have seen.

🗂️ Authors

• https://www.jackdidden.nl/en_books. Jack Didden is a Dutch author who has been writing since 1979.  He lives near Eindhoven and is a specialist in Operation Market Garden.  He has written two incredibly in-depth books on the battles on ‘Hell’s Highway’: the Lommel to Arnhem road. In September 2025, Jack hosted me as we explored the XXX Corps advance and the German counterattacks.
• https://vriendenairbornemuseum.nl/. David Buggenum is a Dutch author who has lived near Arnhem his entire life. He authored ‘B Company has arrived: The Story of B Company of the 2nd Parachute Battalion at Arnhem, September 1944’.  He also assists in locating and repatriating remains of soldiers lost in the Arnhem battles.  David hosted me in September 2025 for a forensic-level exploration of the British 1st Airborne Division battles around Oosterbeek and Arnhem.

Youtube sites

• www.youtube.com/@DigitalBattlefieldTours. Digital Battlefield Tours is hosted by my friend Ivo in Eindhoven.  Ivo has created a set of meticulously researched videos retracing the footsteps of David Kenyon Webster, a member of Easy Company ‘Band of Brothers’ 506th PIR. Webster recorded his experiences in ‘Parachute Infantry’, one of the best first-hand accounts of a soldier in battle. Ivo hosted me in September 2025 for a detailed walkthrough of the battle sites around Nunen, Helmond and Son Bridge.
• www.youtube.com/@WW2Wayfinder. WW2 Wayfinder is run by Jon from the UK and is an incredibly useful site for exploring all the WW2 battlefields of northwest Europe. In September 2025, I used Jon’s site as a roadmap for the Battle of the Bulge battle sites, including Joachim Peiper’s advance through Malmedy, Stavelot, Cheneux, La Gleize, and Stoumont, and the 101st battle sites around Bastogne, Bois Jaques and Foy.

🤝 Partner Sites (Reciprocal Links)

• Kwazulu-Natal Battlefield Route. This website covers 82 different battlefields, forts and monuments from the Anglo-Zulu and Anglo-Boer Wars.
• Isandlwana Lodge. Isandlwana Lodge is where I have generally stayed for exploring the Zulu War battlefields in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. The Lodge is built into the side of a cliff overlooking the Isandlwana battlefield, with spectacular views over the entire site! The Lodge is completely fitted out in Zulu War styles and is a fabulous place to stay.
• Fugitive’s Drift Lodge. The Fugitive’s Drift Lodge is another main hub for exploring the Zulu War battlefields like Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift. Created by legendary historian David Rattray, the Lodge is located right next to Fugitive’s Drift where Lieutenants Melville and Coghill were cut down as they attempted to save the regimental Colours.