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MILITARY HISTORY FROM
A WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVEWe enable organisations around the globe to make history tangible in a brand new way.
Feedback from Museums and Organisations

Battle Guide Virtual Tours has given our audience a new way to reach the battlefields of the Great War. While the Museum and Memorial offers annual onsite battlefield tours, cost, distance and world events can make it difficult for some to physically walk the hallowed grounds of WWI. Virtual tours have helped our community to immerse themselves in the rich history and geography of places like the Argonne Forest and Chateau-Thierry.

The Western Front Association - during the period of lockdown caused by the COVID 19 pandemic - was keen to turbo-charge the digital offering to its members who, obviously, were unable to visit the battlefield in person. The virtual tours that Battle Guide built for us perfectly fitted the bill for our members, who thoroughly enjoyed the dozen tours of WW1 battlefields that were created. These were a mix of the familiar and the less familiar, but came with the same high quality and wonderful 'story telling' by the guides.

We worked with Battle Guide Virtual Tours to provide a unique experience to our fans and supporters.
Flying over a battlefield and getting expert commentary was a great way to engage with history and BGVTs service was invaluable for us.
The benefits of Virtual Battleifld Tours
- Cost effective & Digital | We provide a cost-effective way for your community to visit historic places around the world, anywhere, any time.
- Bespoke & High Quality | Our tours are 100% tailored to your needs in close consultation with you. In all our tours we focus on delivering high quality, engaging and immersive experiences.
- Professional Historians | Intensive and accurate historical research is essential! Our guides and tour managers are professional historians with many years of experience in cooperation with history organisations and museums.
- Creative & Flexible | Our tours can be delivered live to your audience, this means that attendees don't just watch, but can engage with our team in real-time, ask questions and be part of every tour. ⇾ Watch Demo-Tour Now
What could a Virtual Tour look like for your organisation?
A short demo from our CEO and Tour Manager Dan Hill.
Any Virtual Battlefield Tour includes several dimensions

Drone Footage

Live Chat Q&A

Then & Now Footage

Veteran Accounts

Maps & Satellite
Our Battlefield Guides & Historians
Our international team of Battlefield Guides and tour managers have a wide range skills and come from many different backgrounds. University lecturers, public historians, tech professionals, published authors and military servicemen. The one thing we all share is passion.
We take pride in delivering virtual tours to a global audience because we feel strongly that sharing and preserving history is something that needs to be done.
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Jesse Alexander
Battlefield Guide
Jesse Alexander is a public historian and the host of the YouTube channel The Great War, and the World War Two documentary series 16 Days in Berlin. He holds an MA in History from the University of Vienna, where he specialized in visual propaganda and Austria-Hungary in World War One. Jesse has 20 years’ experience in public history in battlefield guiding, public speaking, museums, and research. He has worked with the Vimy Memorial, the Juno Beach Centre, the Canadian War Museum, Canada’s Cold War Museum, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. He hails from Canada, but now splits his time between Vienna and Berlin, and can take your questions in English, French or German.
Dr. Robert Lyman
Battlefield Guide
Dr Robert Lyman FRHistS is a leading writer and military historian. After finishing a twenty year career in the British Army in 2001 he has published widely on the Second World War in Europe, North Africa and Asia.He is Field Marshal Bill Slim’s military biographer. His presentation of the case for Slim won a National Army Museum debate in 2011 for Britain’s Greatest General and his case for Kohima/Imphal won a National Army Museum debate in 2013 for Britain’s Greatest Battle. He was the BBC’s historical adviser for the VJ commemorations in 2015 and 2020 and is a regular contributor to documentary films on aspects of the war. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has been a trustee of the Kohima Educational Trust since 2004, and Chairman between 2008-2016.
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Dr Spencer Jones
Battlefield Guide
Spencer is an award-winning historian and author. He is a Senior Lecturer in Armed Forces and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton and is the President of the Guild of Battlefield Guides. He also serves as the Regimental Historian of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Prof Matthias Strohn
Battlefield Guide
Prof. Strohn is a specialist in the history of war in the 20th century, with special interest in the World Wars, the inter-war period, command and leadership and the application of military history in the current military context. He has published widely in these fields (including writing and editing 17 books and numerous articles) and his works were chosen as the core readings for Operation Reflect, the British Army’s commemoration of the First World War. He is a keen battlefield studies guide and has led military and civilian tours in Europe from Madrid to Stalingrad. He has also worked on television and radio as both historical adviser and interviewee.