Publications

• Podcasts

  • Editor and producer on Belfast Epidemic. Produced 17 episodes of series.
  • ‘The efforts to protect and promote pupil health in Belfast schools during the Edwardian era’, Belfast Epidemic website, https://epidemic-belfast.com/, November 2021.
  • Thorpe, ‘From School to Hospital; Campbell College Belfast during the Second World War’, Belfast Epidemic website, https://epidemic-belfast.com/, November 2021.
  • Thorpe, ‘The role of physical exercise in Belfast schools during the Edwardian period: promoting health or occupation training?’, Belfast Epidemic website, https://epidemic-belfast.com/, November 2021.
  • Combat Morale Podcast. Host and executive producer. Season 1 published with 20 episodes since January 2022. Season 2 released in June 2023 (25 episodes). https://combatmoralepod.com/.
  • Mentioned in Dispatches. Founder, host and producer of the WFA’s weekly podcast which since February 2017 broadcast 375 episodes and had over 750k downloads. https://play.acast.com/s/mentionedindispatches#:~:text=by%20Dr%20Tom%20Thorpe%20A,www.westernfrontassociation.com).
  • Ireland History Podcast. Interview in 2023 on slavery in Belfast during the 18th and 19th centuries (fi/3pNGjBd).
  • Military History Plus Podcast. Interview in 2023 on combat motivation. Also, edited and produced the nine episodes of series 1 (2023) and twelve episodes of series 2 (2024-25)
  • Creative Works Podcast. Interviewer and producer for the seven episodes of season 1, 2023.
  • WISE Podcast, Social Enterprise NI, interview on Wheelworks Arts social enterprise activities, 2024.
  • Underground Strategy. Interview in March 2025 on combat motivation.

   

  Educational resources

  • Exploring the Battle of the Somme A toolkit for students and teachers(2016)
  • Men Behind the Glass pack on education, society and WW1 in Northern Ireland for Y10 (age 14) children (2018). CCB. Approved by the CCEA (NI). Teacher Pack (21.11), Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3 & Lesson 4.
  • Bringing Clandeboye to Life Commemoration of the Somme July 1916-2016  (2016) Living Legacies Programme, QUB.

   

  Academic outputs

  • Charles Fair, Richard Hendry and Tom Thorpe, ‘Edwardian London’, in Charles Fair, Richard Hendry and Tom Thorpe (Eds), London Pride: The London Territorial Force in Peace And War, 1908-1921 Vol.2 (Solihul: Helion, 2025).
  • Charles Fair, Richard Hendry and Tom Thorpe (Eds), London Pride: The London Territorial Force in Peace and War, 1908-1921, Vol 1 : Peacetime, Society and the Transition to War.(Solihul: Helion, 2025).
  • Charles Fair, Richard Hendry and Tom Thorpe (Eds), London Pride: The London Territorial Force in Peace and War, 1908-1921, Vol 2 : Learning, Adaption and Legacy(Solihul: Helion, 2026, in press).
  • Tom Thorpe,’ ‘‘A Feat of Arms Surpassed by No Battalion’: The 1/13th Battalion, London Regiment and The Battle Of Aubers Ridge (Sunday, 9 May 1915)’, in Charles Fair, Richard Hendry and Tom Thorpe (Eds), London Pride: The London Territorial Force in Peace And War, 1908-1921 Vol.2 (Solihul: Helion, 2025).
  • Tom Thorpe, ‘Raiding and the Learning Process in the 56th Division during the Great War’, in Charles Fair, Richard Hendry and Tom Thorpe (Eds), London Pride: The London Territorial Force in Peace and War, 1908-1921 Vol.2 (Solihull: Helion, 2025).
  • Tom Thorpe, ‘The double-edged sword: Military Group Cohesion in British infantry battalions during 1917’, in S. Jones (Ed), ‘The Darkest Year: The British Army on the Western Front 1917 (Solihull: Helion, 2022).
  • Tom Thorpe, ‘To volunteer or not: explaining Leicestershire’s recruitment crisis, 1914-1915’, East Midlands History and Heritage, Issue 7 (August 2018). http://eastmidlandshistory.org.uk/magazine-issue-7-out-now/
  • Tom Thorpe, ‘No more than three months trench service’: a study in the length of frontline service by other ranks in one battalion during the Great War’, Stand To! 128 (October 2022), pp.57-60. https://kensingtons.org.uk/article-in-stand-to/
  • Article submitted to Stand To!, ‘Sickness in the trenches: the experience of one battalion’.
  • Tom Thorpe, ‘A ‘mere six weeks’? A comparative study re-examining the longevity of infantry officers’ frontline service during the Great War. War in History. Vol: 29 iss. 2 (2020), pp.427-449. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/4TUCYGYDBKP53B4DJZEQ/full
  • Tom Thorpe, ‘A ‘mere six weeks’? Examining the longevity of infantry officers’ frontline service during the Great War’, Distant Thunder, No.3, (Spring 2020), Journal of the Ireland branches of the WFA https://www.antrimanddownwfa.org/distant-thunder-journal/
  • Thorpe, ‘Why they enlisted, served and killed; the experience and motivation of Leicestershire servicemen during the Great War, Midland History, Vol.44 Issue 1 (May 2019), pp.85-106. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0047729X.2019.1584171
  • Thorpe, The extent, nature and impact of military group cohesion in London Regiment infantry battalions during the Great War (PhD Thesis, King’s College London, 2017)

   

  Other articles/book review

  • T. Thorpe, Book review: in Stand To! 127, August 2022, pp.55-56, of Harry Potter, Alexander Paterson: Prison Reformer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer 2022).
  • T. Thorpe, Book review: in Stand To!, Autumn 2021, of Ann Buckley (Ed.) German Prisoners of the Great War (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021) Book Review – Ann Buckley (Ed.) German Prisoners of the Great War (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021) – The Kensingtons Blog
  • T. Thorpe, ‘What Are You Listening To?’, Mars & Clio, February 2021, pp.19-21.
  • T. Thorpe, ‘Call for chapters for a new volume on the London Regiment before and during the Great War by Dr Tom Thorpe’, Bulletin 122 (July 2022), pp.44-45.
  • T. Thorpe, Book review – Tony Garcia and Ian Van Der Waag, Botha, Smuts and the Great War (Solihul: Helion, 2023), Stand To! 134 (July 2024).
  • T. Thorpe, Book Review – Stefanie Linden, The Legacy of Shell Shock in Britain and Germany 1918-1924(Solihull: Helion, 2024), Stand to! 135 (October 2024), pp.53-54.
  • Thorpe, Book Review Ian Isherwood, The Battalion: Citizen Soldiers at War on the Western Front (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2024), Stand To! 136 (December 2024).
  • Thorpe, Book Review, Margaret Ward, Rebel Women: Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim, 1914-1924 (Dublin: Beyond the Pale, 2024), Stand To! 137 (March 2025), p.54.
  • T. Thorpe, Book Review, Edgar Loveland (Steve Hammond Ed.), Quarter Bloke, with the Westminsters at War (Privately, 2024), Stand To! 138 (June 2025), p.55.
  • T. Thorpe, Book Review, Richard Batten, For King and Country (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2025), Stand To! 138(September) 2025), p.55.
  • T. Thorpe, Book Review, Alex Mayhew, Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front (Cambridge: CUP, 2025), Stand To! 140 (December 2025), pp.95-96.

  • T. Thorpe, Ceremony at Victoria Station Honours the Unknown Warrior, Bulletin (in press).

   

  Policy documents

  • WheelWorks_iProgramme_External_Evaluation_April_2023_FINA Written for Wheelworks Arts (WWA) to assess the programme that functioned between April 2020 and March 2023.
  • Domestic Abuse, A London Public Health Emergency (2014). Written for Hestia and aimed to improve the provision of domestic violence services in London.
  • A Quest for Quality. A review of mental health and medical provision for care homes in the UK. Written for the British Geriatrics Society in 2011. 
  • British Geriatrics Society manifestos for the manifestos for the 2011 Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland regional assembly elections.
  • Parkinson Disease Society manifestos for the manifestos for the 2003 elections to the Wales, A Time to Care in NI A Time to Care in Scotland and Scottish regional assemblies.
  • Secondary Care and Medication (2002) A policy document setting out a survey of people with Parkinson’s disease and their experience in hospital.
  • Time to Care for Carers (2003). This report was intended to profile the work of carers and outline practical help and guidance for carers who care for someone with Parkinson’s disease.
  • Tackling Long Term Unemployment: A Discussion Document (1995). A policy document exploring how regional initiatives could tackle long term unemployment. Written for David Chidgey MP, Liberal Democrat Member for Rochdale.
  • Who Cares in the Community?A review of mental health services in the Greater Manchester in 1995. Written with Liz Lynne MP, Liberal Democrat member for Rochdale. 
  • Transport Means Access. Removing the barriers to disabled people (1995).A review of the government’s proposals to make transport services more accessible. Written with Liz Lynne MP, Liberal Democrat member for Rochdale. 
  • WheelWorks_iProgramme_External_Evaluation_April_2023_FINAL, delivered and managed Wheelworks Arts (WWA) between April 2020 and March 2023.

Updated 5 January 2026