Pastures new

Trying something different

First came a website that I called “The British Army in the Great War”. So long ago that I initially hosted it at Compuserve. Then I changed its name to “The Long, Long Trail”. I added a discussion area, the “Great War Forum”. And now I have added a blog-style newsletter called “The Old Barbed Wire”.

The sun is setting on closed-shop, single-subject discussion forums. Social media has become a corporate, hostile environment and frankly not an arena I want to play in any more. So its time to try something new.

Everything to date, over 26 years, has all been free for every visitor. Early notice: some content in “The Old Barbed Wire” may be eventually behind a paywall. But I promise it will be valuable, unique stuff. Watch this space.