MAC Lecture 5: The Explosive Works at Cliffe - Cordite, nitroglycerine and the Flying Archaeologist

A photograph from Imperial War Museum's Collections of a woman working in munitions production
  • Date: 4th June 2025
  • Location: Medway Archives Centre (MAC), 32 Bryant Road
    Strood
    ME2 3EP
  • Time: 14:00 - 15:30
  • Cost: £4 for a single lecture or £20 for a season ticket to all 6 lectures

Join Amanda J Thomas as she explores the history of the Cliffe explosives works during the early twentieth century.

This session is fully booked.

Notorious for its many fatal and grisly accidents, the factory employed a great number of local women during World War One, including Amanda's grandmother.

In 2013, English Heritage published an archaeological survey and analysis of the remains of the Curtis and Harvey works, to which Amanda and her mother Dulcie contributed. Later that year, Amanda appeared on BBC 4's Flying Archaeologist, to talk about her family's involvement with the production of explosives at Cliffe.

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