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Making friends with the enemy: what stories of soldiers’ unexpected battlefield meetings reveal about the trauma of war

James Brady, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the first world war, struggled to narrate the moment he was taken captive by German soldiers while serving on the western front. In the draft of his memoir, he crossed out and rewrote this section repeatedly.

The Conversation · Nov 8, 2024

Country Diary: All of life takes place in a rural village hall

Inkpen, West Berkshire: The ‘old girl’ is 100 years old – as are many others built around Britain after the first world war. We give it the celebration it deserves

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2024

Australia treats its armed forces veterans with a perversely shabby contempt

If you are going to define the birth of a nation by imperial adventures abroad then you must honour and respect those who return damaged

The Guardian - AU · Oct 15, 2024

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Exhibition highlights BAME soldiers experience in First World War

AN EXHIBITION set to open during Black History Month will reflect on the experience of soldiers from across the Commonwealth in the First World War.

The National (Scotland) · Oct 13, 2024

A Soldier’s Journey: new first world war memorial in Washington revitalises classic image of the ‘American doughboy’

America’s inaugural national memorial marking the first world war was unveiled this month in Washington DC, on the birthday of war commander General John J. Pershing – 106 years after the end of the war. We don’t often get to see a new memorial to a century-old war, especially one…

The Conversation · Sep 24, 2024

Robert Harris’s Precipice, reviewed: it’s an injustice this great novelist hasn’t won more literary prizes

During the dawn of the First World War, HH Asquith sent more than 700 letters to an aristocratic young woman almost half his age – but did the Liberal PM actually have an affair with Venetia Stanley? The story forms the basis of one of the most enthralling novels yet…

The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2024

Circuits to have hosted the F1 British Grand Prix since its debut

The British GP has become synonymous with its now permanent home of Silverstone circuit, which is widely regarded as one of the best tracks in the world.Silverstone, which lies in Northamptonshire, also hosted F1’s inaugural race in 1950 but it has not been the venue for every British GP since.In…

Autosport · Jul 5, 2024

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Weatherwatch: The forgotten sinking of the Empress of Ireland

Months before the first world war, the ocean liner sank in the St Lawrence River after a collision in thick fog

The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2024

Bella Reay was a war-time football heroine with a ratio of 4.33 goals per game who could’ve inspired millions had politics not got in the way

With swathes of men conscripted during the First World War Women’s football underwent an unexpected boom, but sadly this success story turned into a tragic missed opportunity

FourFourTwo · Apr 22, 2024

Wor Bella: forgotten story of women who combined war work with football

Hundreds of Munitionette teams played in Britain during the first world war – and their story is being told on stage

The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2024

Little Englanders by Alwyn Turner review – portrait of a poignant interlude in British history

An ‘empty patch’ in the national story, the Edwardian era – between the death of Queen Victoria and the start of the first world war – has many parallels with today

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2024

A skirt served my grandfather well in the first world war

Brief letters: Men in skirts | Government priorities | The misery of January | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Give pants a chance

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2024

Ishion Hutchinson: ‘I can hear a poem before it arrives’

The Jamaican poet on his new collection about West Indian soldiers in the first world war, diving into the messiness of language, and the book he rereads every autumn

The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2023

King Charles leads moving Remembrance Day service at Cenotaph as nation honours war dead

A two-minute silence took place across the UK at 11am to commemorate the end of the First World War and other conflicts involving British and Commonwealth forces

The Independent UK · Nov 12, 2023

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The Guardian - AU · Nov 10, 2023

‘He is one of us’: 30 years on, Paul Keating’s eulogy to the unknown Australian soldier endures

Saturday marks three decades since the then prime minister brought the grief of European battlegrounds home, paying homage to one of the 20,000 Australians who died in the first world war yet remain unidentified

Evening Standard · Nov 10, 2023

Remembrance Day 2025: War quotes to celebrate Armistice Day

You are likely to have heard Laurence Binyon’s words but what other quotes have been associated with Remembrance Sunday?

The Conversation · Nov 9, 2023

Remembrance Day: five beautiful novels about war commemoration

Every autumn, the UK participates in an astonishing commemorative practice: the annual charity drive of the Poppy Appeal. From its origins during the first world war to the purple poppy commemorating animals in wartime, the artificial poppy has become a fragile but enduring symbol of remembrance.

Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2023

When is Remembrance Day 2024? Free train travel offered to military personnel and veterans

November 11 is a chance to honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice

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Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023

OPINION - John Lewis’s problems go far deeper than just Sharon White

John Lewis is a doughty symbol of London retail, but that does not guarantee it a bricks-and-mortar future. Gamages on Holborn traded in everything from toys to supplying the army with catapults during the First World War, but was an anachronism in swinging London by the Seventies, while Dickins &…

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2023

Dog named Carmen is latest to join Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood

The dog was inspired by AA Milne’s time in the First World War.

The National (Scotland) · Sep 7, 2023

Lost grave of Scots soldier who died in First World War found and rededicated

THE lost grave of a Scots soldier who died during the First World War has been discovered and rededicated after more than 100 years.

The Independent UK · Aug 24, 2023

Alice Winn’s In Memoriam scoops Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023

The novel, set in the First World War, was described as ‘comfortingly classic yet daringly original’ by judges.

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2023

‘He should be a custodian’: London allotment holders lament duke’s bid to build flats

Land leased to the community to grow vegetables after the first world war is needed now more than ever, gardeners say

The Conversation · Aug 1, 2023

Conscientious objectors in the second world war: little-known stories of pacifists plagued by doubt but willing to risk their lives

Like many conscientious objectors during the second world war, John Corsellis was acutely aware of the complex and conflicted position he was taking. Years later, he told the Imperial War Museum’s oral history project:

The Conversation · Jun 29, 2023

How 1920s high society fashion pushed gender boundaries through 'freaking' parties

The 1920s brought about a rise in androgynous fashion among a high society set that broke boundaries and caused controversy. This drew on a subculture that had existed for decades, perhaps centuries, but after the first world war gender-bending fashions became front page news.

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