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Warning - Super-long post! I’ve decided to share what comes up for me regarding a life I think I may have lived in America post-WW2. This is a life I never really expected to uncover, and it wasn’t till after I uncovered it that I put a lot of pieces together. I will admit though that a week or...

Bagpipes could also indicate Northumberland in England. They have a distictive type of bagpipe called the Northumbrian pipes which have a very distinctive sound, quite different to Scottish bagpipes. They're still used quite often by Northumbrian folk musicians :)

If you haven't already, read Bernard Cornwell's Warlord trilogy. It is based on the legend of King Arthur, but set in the real world as they might have experienced it. No dragons or magic, but then I'm not a fan of fantasy (as soon as a book mentions elves or dragons I roll my eyes and try not...

Which country were you in during WW1 and WW2? At least in the UK it was possible to be a civilian for the first, and 'combative' in the second by being a member of the Home Guard. They were armed men, usually too old for active service or were required at home for certain jobs (baker, miner etc).

Hello again csmalley :) Keep trying with the MP3s, it can take a lot of practice for them to work, a bit like trying to ride a bike. I didn't get anything myself for the first few tries, but eventually something will just 'click'. Also, try different methods (self-regressions, guided...

my great-grandfather fought in the Middle East during the Great War. As far as I'm aware he was an infantryman. tanks were also occasionally used in the UK for warfund-raising purposes, taking them into the towns, in a 'look what we've got, help us raise money to make more to fight the Hun!'...

The Tank Museum in Dorset have just added the replica tank built for the film War Horse to their collection. They've uploaded a video of it here:

Buckinghamshire is a county outside London, one of the Home Counties, and within the commuter belt, but couldn't be described as 'near Big Ben', not by a long shot. Its name is sometimes shortened to 'Bucks' however, but not sure how it could tie-in with the Westminster connection.

Yes, the Tube is a subway system, the oldest in the world. Thats fascinating that she knew just what it was and was so matter of fact about it! The park doesn't sound like any of the big parks (I was thinking of St. James' Park, near Big Ben, but this is a very big park with a lake). The park...

Many parks, especially the larger ones, will have a map near the entrances, maybe she could try and look for that? The park I'm thinking of near Big Ben (will not say the name, in case she comes up with it during regression) has some very distinctive birds, you could ask her is she sees any...

Hello Mommaof4 :) If there is anything I can help, with identifying areas of London, I am more than happy to help. I grew up near London and am pretty familiar with the areas. If you could get a name for the park that would really tie things down to an area, all the parks have their own names...

hello, and welcome csmalley :) What a fascinating story. Do not worry about thinking you are 'going nuts', you have come to the right place. Many of us (myself included :D ) have feelings, memories and experiences that could be described that way! What you are experiencing is real for you...

Everything you have all said makes perfect sense and I couldn't agree more. When I first started researching my PLs, my memories from this life became much easier to access, they are full, rich and all-encompassing, with a sense of the surrounding environment. In contrast, my PL memories are...

Definately the dungeons at Warwick Castle. Went there when I was about 12, and was quite excited, I wanted to see the dungeons (even though I've always been a bit squeamish and not really into that kind of 'yucky' stuff like most kids). But as soon as I got down there I had to leave. The smell...

I'll see what I can do about scanning the postcards. In the meantime, here is a link to the Centenary website, run by the Imperial War Museum: http://www.1914.org/ and the Great War Photos blog: http://greatwarphotos.com/

My family has a small collection of Great War postcards. Reading through them a few weeks ago was quite an emotional experience. One, writing to his sister in 1914, wondered what their mother would think when she heard he had volunteered for the Front. I keep wondering whether he survived or...

Sorry BriarRose! Was quite late here and was quite tired when I posted that! The book was 'The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One' by Miranda Carter. Argonne is right, a lot of it came down to Kaiser Wilhelm, who had a right temper and felt keen to prove...

What a wonderful photograph Whippoorwill, thank you for sharing it :) I've had something similar. When I started researching my Great War life, I realised I just couldn't get my head round *why* we went to war. I think in that life I went because King and Country asked, without really...

There are 4 years worth of activities planed across the UK to commemorate the Great War centenary. Argonne, maybe the centenary is a chance for more Americans to learn about the Great War and the part they played.

These are true colour photographs, not tints. Colour photography was initially experimented with in the 1850s, but was mostly unsuccessful. By the 1890s, experiments were being conducted with the three-colour process, where three glass-plate negatives were taken through red, blue and green...