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