First World War

Grave of a fallen soldier in World War I

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“Their name liveth for evermore”: the difficult task of locating, identifying and honouring the dead of WW1

A still from a new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front shows actor Felix Kammerer as a WW1 soldie

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All Quiet on the Western Front inspiration: “As Remarque said, war is not an adventure. There’s nothing glorious about it”

circa 1923: A Remembrance Day poster issued by the British Legion after World War One, reminding people to wear a Flanders poppy on November 11th. (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Why we should remember... When the paper poppy became a symbol of remembrance

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All Quiet on the Western Front film "An ambitious, visceral exploration of life and loss in WW1"

Writer JRR Tolkien smokes a pipe

JRR Tolkien The making of Middle Earth

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris who is medical historian and has written a new book called ‘the Facemaker’ about WW1 facial reconstruction

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris “This was a time when losing a limb made you a hero, but losing a face made you a monster” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Catriona Pennell WL

First World War poets: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HEX_Voices_Kavita Puri

Kavita Puri "Many south Asian diasporic families don’t know of their First World War links" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, with his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, riding in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination on 28 June 1914

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Franz Ferdinand “This mythologised murder did not trigger WW1”

Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie

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The shot that sparked the First World War

Victoria Drummond, Britain's first female marine engineer. Also seen is her ancestral home, Megginch Castle; a Second World War Allied convoy; Mount Etna, which she encountered on one voyage; and a Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea, similar to the one that Drummond received in 1941

Victoria Drummond: trailblazing ship’s engineer and war hero

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Pod Lindsay Fitzharris WL

Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jack Lowden as Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies’ feature film Benediction.

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Benediction: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend

First World War soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon In uniform

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Poetry and protest WW1 poet Siegfried Sassoon

A drawing depicting a German monoplane dropping bombs on Paris during the First World War

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Creating fake Paris: how one man built a mock city to fool WW1 German bombers