Widely considered one of the world’s most terrible wars, “The Great War” is a moment in human history we would like to forget ...

WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths attributed to the use of the machine-gun in WW1, did its awesome threat actually ...

Thanks for that. Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's? WW1: Why was the first day of ...

Travel in the Highlands was severely restricted during WW1 and anyone wishing to do so had to apply for a special pass.The Highlands were seen as strategically important during the First World War.