A place-led archive
A Discovery of British Military Aviation
Fields of History traces Britain's historic military airfields — the aircraft that flew from them, the squadrons that lived there, and the stories still attached to the ground.
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Explore by place
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Geographic coverage is still being added
Browse airfields directly while geolocated stations are being added.
Two places to begin
Start anywhere
Stations & landscape
Airfields
Runways, remains, and the landscapes that still show wartime traces.
A landscape
Ground & campaign
Battlefields
Historic ground — campaign context, the span of the fighting, and what remains today.
Types & airframes
Aircraft
What they flew, where they were based, and which squadrons operated them.
Units & movements
Squadrons
Identity, role, and postings across airfields and aircraft.
Featured
Places, machines, and units
A small set chosen to show how quickly the links open out.
No published spotlights yet. When airfields, aircraft, and squadrons are marked published in Directus, a sample from each collection will appear here automatically.
How to wander
Follow the links to widen the story.
Airfields and battlefields are the places. Aircraft and squadrons are the machines and units that connect them. Start anywhere — each page points outward.
Airfields
Start with a station — what it was, and what still reads in the landscape.
Battlefields
Or start on historic ground — campaign, date-span, and what remains today.
Aircraft
Follow the machines that tied those fields to a period and a role.
Squadrons
Then the units that moved between them, and the next station they used.
Landscape
What remains today
Control towers become dwellings. Perimeter tracks become farm roads. Hangars, memorials, and fragments of concrete still sit in ordinary countryside. Fields of History is as much about those traces as it is about wartime role.
Fields of History is not an official record. It's a starting point — a way in to the airfields, the battlefields, the machines, the units and the people, for anyone standing in a field wondering what used to be there.