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A display of acrobatics by German internees at the prisoner of war camp at Newbury Racecourse in Berkshire in October 1914. Imperial War Museum/Wikimedia

November 8, 2018

A glimmer of light amidst the darkness: honour in the First World War

Jasper Heinzen, Institut d'études avancées de Paris (IEA) – RFIEA

During First World War, the rhetoric of chivalry counteracted the inhumanity of the conflict in sometimes surprising ways.

November 7, 2018

The Irish settlement: an often ignored legacy of World War I

Marie Coleman, Queen's University Belfast

The events of the war caused Irish nationalists to push harder for their independence.

Wilfred Owen was killed in action on November 4, 1918. Frontispiece from Poems of Wilfred Owen (1920)

November 4, 2018

Wilfred Owen 100 years on: poet gave voice to a generation of doomed youth

Wim Van Mierlo, Loughborough University

Dead at 25, a week before World War I ended, Owen summed up the conflict’s waste and futility.

Archival photographs such as the above, from Gallipoli, are one resource documentary makers draw upon to communicate understandings of historical events. Australian War Memorial/Flickr

March 24, 2015

Who tells our stories? The first world war on the small screen

James Bennett, University of Newcastle

War history used to be brought to TV audiences by donnish lecturers but historical reconstructions now hold sway. Two recent docos about Gallipoli are hybrid examples of the form that help us better understand the past.

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