Doug Stuart and Adam Sheffield offer educational talks and demonstrations based on their extensive research and collections of military equipment and artefacts. These talks present the opportunity to learn about history by handling original objects, and better understand how equipment and technology shaped these great conflicts.
Doug has more than thirty years experience as a collector and researcher, as well as being a qualified army cadet instructor and County Public Relations Officer for Cambridgeshire Army Cadet Force. Doug regularly attends historical re-enactments, takes part in remembrance events and travels to battlefields around Europe. He also provides military advice, props and costumes for theatrical productions including 'Journey's End' (EADS production 2018) 'Girl in the Glass' (Combined Actors of Cambridge, 2018) and 'Sailor Beware' (EADS 2019).
Adam Sheffield is also a qualified Army Cadet Instructor and experienced collector. He regularly visits WW1 battlefields on the former Western Front and researches WW1 soldiers.
Doug and Adam's collections include an extensive variety of items recovered from WW1 battlefields, such as shrapnel, grenades, shells, bayonets, rifles, footwear and personal items, including items they have found themselves. All items are completely and demonstratively safe and in compliance with the law, and Doug and Adam are CRB checked.
Their Second World War collections includes a wide variety of items from home front life in Britain and Germany, as well as battlefield recovered items from the Eastern Front, and uniform and equipment from the war in The Pacific. It includes a collection of items salvaged from German U-Boat U-534, such as one of its one-man lifeboats, a complete tool kit from the engine room, and many personal items recovered from the wreck.
