The internet and social media are changing how we commemorate war. The hashtag #LestWeForget will be shared millions of times on Remembrance Day in tweets and Facebook comments.
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The road to independence was not a simple tale of civil disobedience.
English and Scottish football players are set to defy a FIFA ban by marking Armistice Day on the pitch.
The job of a war artist probably seems, to many, a curious calling. Here’s why Paul Nash and I were both drawn to the front line.
From serial killers to attacks on prostitutes and soldiers, not everyone back in Britain during the war was heroic.
In the 20th century, governments considered the “total abolition” of passports as an important goal and discussed the issue in several international conferences.
Many of HG Wells’s futuristic prophecies have come true, but the one on which his heart was most set – the establishment of a world state – remains unfulfilled.
A tool in place of your arm or a stereo for your leg? How our attitudes towards human enhancement have changed.
The centenary of the first world war is being memorialised around the world. But as it fades from living memory, our children’s education sits uneasily with the uncritical demands of commemoration.
Commemorations for young people sanctify the Great War, but it’s a conflict that needs to be questioned.
A hundred years ago today, the Battle of the Somme began. This conflict, in which a million men died in order to move the front lines about six miles, spelled the end of courage as a cornerstone of masculine identity.
There was no need to censor Allied war reporters – they were required by law to follow the official line.
100 years after the Battle of the Somme, we are only now starting to unravel the mystery causes of shell shock.
After the Somme the British army was supplied with vastly more firepower than before. This would decide the course of this war.
Both sides claimed victory after the German and British fleets met off the coast of Denmark, 100 years ago.
Calculus helped determined the outcome of World War I’s biggest naval battle, 100 years ago.
Over the years the words Sykes-Picot have taken on two meanings – one significant, the other less so.
The Sykes-Picot Agreement delivered the spoils of war to Britain and France, and deferred the dreams of Arab nationalists.
Eurovision wants to protect its ‘non-political nature’. But can it?
For 100 years, the Easter Rising has occupied center stage in the memory making of republican Ireland. But the role of Irish soldiers in World War I had been all but forgotten – until now.
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