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Anzac Day 2026: how the poppy has endured as our symbol of war and remembrance

In 1916, in the middle of the Great War, 2nd Lieutenant Leonard (Len) James Shaw of the 2nd Auckland Battalion sent a pressed Flanders poppy in folded paper to his niece Jessie Osborne in Waikato.

The Conversation · Apr 22

Gent-Wevelgem to change name in 2026 for first time since 1934 to In Flanders Fields – from Middelkerke to Wevelgem

Belgian one-day Classic moves away from start at Menin Gate in Ypres, but race organiser's CEO ensures 'the Great War will always remain deeply intertwined'

Cycling News · Nov 10, 2025

Cherry blossoms and eucalypts: this Japanese war cemetery remembers fallen Australians

After the Great War, Australians made pilgrimages to distant battlefields of Gallipoli and northern France. They paid their respects to the fallen soldiers who shaped our national identity.

The Conversation · Aug 14, 2025

Hundreds gather to pay respects to 'enduring burden' of defence personnel

The ceremony marked 30 years since the 'Unknown Soldier' was returned from France.

The Canberra Times · Nov 11, 2023

‘Not Approved’: Turns Out There Was A Big Whoopsie With That Taylor Swift Sydney Ticket Release

I knew this was trouble.

Pedestrian.tv · Sep 5, 2023

Fight your way back from the horrors of WW1 with Ad Infinitum's new story trailer

Torn between memories of your family home and the trenches of the Great War, how will you survive?

GamesRadar · Aug 23, 2023

Inside the country's only surviving gaslit cinema as it reopens after £4.8million refit

The Grade II-listed cinema first welcomed patrons on the eve of the Great War in 1914, when Charlie Chaplin was just beginning his career as a tramp

Daily Mirror · Jun 30, 2023

Friday essay: 'All I am is literature' – Franz Kafka's diaries were the forge of his writing

Picture the scene. It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever. A young man with sound prospects is to meet his fiancée’s father for the first time.

The Conversation · Jun 8, 2023

The Great War: Western Front review

Western Front captures the dehumanizing brutality of World War I, for better or worse.

PC Gamer · Apr 3, 2023