Hill 60 was a low rise south-east of Ypres made from the soil removed in digging a cutting for the Ypres to Comines railway. It…
The term ‘shell shock’ was first used by military doctors in early 1915 to describe the physical ailments of a nervous breakdown. Initially, it was thought the…
On 27 October 2014, four military history experts will meet at the Royal United Services Institute to debate the question: Was Britain right…
The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…
To mark Britain’s momentous declaration of war in 1914, MHM has created this graphic study of the country’s military as it prepared…
In conjunction with a new exhibition opening at Osborne Samuel gallery, MHM looks at some of CRW Nevinson’s most celebrated war-time works…
French Women Munition Workers A narrow corridor leads into the distance between serried ranks of shells. The slightly elevated viewpoint exaggerates…
Most readers of The Times had never heard of Sarajevo in June 1914. The assassination of a visiting Austrian royal by a…
Belgian Carabiniers with dog-drawn heavy machine-gun, 1914 Marching toward the camera, and shot from a low angle, these Belgian Carabiniers are given…
Cambridge philosopher Iain King discovers a First World War artilleryman with a revolutionary treatise in his backpack. Born in 1889 into the…