David Tattersfield assesses a failed attack on a crucial German salient during the Battle of the Somme.…
Larry Collins looks at the function of theatre entertainment during the First World War and its role as unofficial recruiter, propagandist, and…
Michael MacCallan’s grandfather Arthur was an ophthalmic surgeon. He helped convert Travelling Ophthalmic Hospitals into WWI military hospitals for the support of…
Albert Rickman was born in Milford-on-Sea and lived with his parents, Charles and Anne Rickman, at 4 Carrington Terrace. On Friday 15…
A cut-away diagram of this WWI British destroyer, the specialised hunter-killer of German U-boats…
In our Jutland — the combat experience feature this month, Peter Hart reconstructs the action of the battle using personal accounts of men…
Your country needs you – and hundreds of thousands had come forwards. So at first, it was a war of the willing. But…
Imperial War Museum curator Paul Cornish discusses the machine gun, the iconic weapon of the First World War trenches.…
The Battle of Caporetto in 1917 was a decisive victory for Germany, and one in which 25 year old German lieutenant Erwin…
UCL’s Gabe Moshenska muses on the extraordinary iconic significance of the gas mask. My particular object of interest is the ‘General Civilian…