Heritage Doncaster

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• Subjects
  • Doncaster, slavery and the country house
  • Doncaster and the HMS Lightning
  • Doncaster’s Cenotaph and Elmfield Park
  • Online Exhibition: Arrivals
    • Arrivals: Audley Forrester MBE
    • Arrivals: Blanche Hines
    • Arrivals: Renneth Green
    • Arrivals: Diane Rankine
    • Arrivals: Frank Wallace
    • Arrivals: Gordon Leow
    • Arrivals: Inez Clarke
    • Arrivals: Doris Lewis
    • Arrivals: Daphne Richards
    • Arrivals: Allere McIsaacs (known as Vonnie)
    • Arrivals: Lloyd Brown
    • Arrivals: Michael Green
    • Arrivals: Michael Haughton
    • Arrivals: William (Bill) Rose
    • Arrivals: Bev & Shirley Vickers
    • Arrivals: Maurice Roberts
    • Arrivals: Peter Spencer
    • Arrivals: Violet Finch
    • Violet Radcliffe
    • Winston Radcliffe
    • Claris Brown
  • Military History
    • Winston Churchill’s Funeral and the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
    • What is Minden Day?
    • April and May 1940
    • Remembering the 5th Battalion
    • A Wartime Romance
    • Private O’Reilly and the Grenade
    • Charles Ward: Queen Victoria’s Last VC
    • In Memory of Willie Frost
    • Welcome to the Military Mondays and the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Collections Project
    • Military Monday: Researching the KOYLI collection
    • Cataloguing and digitising the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Collection
    • The KOYLI Outreach Projects
    • Lance Corporal Frank Jones
    • Letters Home
    • Reginald and Isabel Bond
    • The 51st at Waterloo
    • Discovering Private J: Military Medical Care
    • Discovering Private J: Military Discipline
    • Chatfield’s Royal Humane Society Medal
    • Herbert John Darley: Prisoner of War
    • Sports in the Army
    • Minden Day Through Time
    • Celebrating Minden Day
    • The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and Spandau Prison
    • The Regimental Wager Book
    • Three Prisoners from the Second Battalion
    • Discovering My Grandfather’s Medals
    • Perky the KOYLI Panther
    • Food in the Army
    • Four Times Military Cross Winner Percy Bentley
    • Music and Bandsmen in the KOYLI
    • Francis De Visme: The Life of a Napoleonic Officer
    • The Life of William Hewitt
    • “An Outstanding Regimental Officer In Every Way” – Nicolas Sinclair Pope
    • 42 Years with the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry: Herbert Barker 
    • Land of Perpetual Night – The KOYLI in Iceland 1940-1942
    • The Last Day of the First World War 
    • The KOYLI’s Anti-Aircraft Gunners in the Second World War 
    • Uniforms of the KOYLI
    • The Game Book
    • The Kennedys
    • Doncaster Home Guard
    • Christmas in the First World War 
    • An Officer’s Mess Suggestions Book
    • The wooden leg of Derrick Willis 
    • Harry George, A Soldier From Worksop 
    • Life in Schneidemuhl Prisoner of War Camp
    • KOYLI Freedoms
    • Letters From My Son: Roger Spicer in the Second World War 
    • Thomas Deakes of Dunscroft
    • Letters from France: Lancelot Spicer in the First World War
    • Second World War Propaganda in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Collection
    • Women and the British Army
    • Arthur Greenald’s Notebook
    • The 105th Madras Light Infantry and the East India Company 
    • George Don: Soldier, Spy, Governor 
    • Dogs in the Army
    • The Regimental Chapel of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
    • The KOYLI Volunteers
    • The end of the KOYLI Collections Project 
  • The Girls’ High School Headteachers
  • Lilian Lenton – Rebel Suffragette
  • Online Exhibition: Steps, Sticks and Swords – The Story of Doncaster’s Morris Men
    • Steps, Sticks and Swords – The Story of Doncaster’s Morris Men: Traditions and Origins
    • Online Exhibition: Steps, Sticks and Swords – The Story of Doncaster’s Morris Men: Morris Dancing in Doncaster
    • Steps, Sticks and Swords – The Story of Doncaster’s Morris Men: Spotlights
    • Online Exhibition: Steps, Sticks and Swords – The Story of Doncaster’s Morris Men – Objects and Gallery