Tours & Talks: A Weekend in Ypres

Experience an unforgettable three-day tour of Belgium’s First World War battlefields with BBC History Magazine and Historical Trips. Attend da aily lectures given by historians at t Ypres’ medieval Cloth Hall, and visit some of the iconic sites of the Gre

Itinerary Day One

Morning: Depart UK Meet in London and travel to Dover for our ferry crossing to Calais and coach journey to Ypres. Afternoon: Flanders Fields and the Menin Gate Following a visit to Flanders Fields, we return to our hotel for a drinks reception and dinner. After dinner, we walk to the Menin Gate to hear the town’s fire brigade sound the Last Post in tribute to those who died here.

Day Two

Morning: Lectures at the Cloth Hall BBC History Magazine presents three lectures given by historians. Afternoon: Battlefield tour of western front sites Travel to Essex Farm cemetery, where Dr John McRae, author of the poem In Flanders Fields, treated the wounded. We then visit Langemark German war cemetery, scene of the first gas attacks by the German army, followed by a trip to Tyne Cot cemetery, the largest cemetery on the western front.

Day Three

Morning: Lectures at the Cloth Hall BBC History Magazine presents three lectures given by historians. Afternoon: Talbot House and return Visit Talbot House, Poperinge, which provided rest and relaxation to thousands of British soldiers between 1915 and 1918. Board the ferry for our return home.

Lecturers

Nigel Jones is a co-founder of Historical Trips and author of many works of 20thcentury history, including The War Walk: A Journey Along the Western Front (2004).

Spencer Jones is an award-winning author and historian. His book Courage Without Glory: The British Army on the Western Front 1915 (2015) was shortlisted for the 2016 British Army Book of the Year award. Nick Lloyd is reader in military and imperial history at King’s College London and author of a number of books, including Hundred Days: The End of the Great War (2013).