Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some are were first published in Stand To! or Bulletin, others have been researched and written for the web. If you would like to contribute an article please get in touch.
Porton Revealed
General view of Porton from the water tower, c.1918. In the centre background is ’Gas Wood’, where…
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Passchendaele and the Flanders U-Boats
There can be no doubt that the Flanders U-boats, the thirty seven small UB and UC vessels based at B…
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'We Too Were Soldiers' by Dr Vivien Newman
WAAC workers and Chief Ordnance Office Staff, Rouen 1917 ‘We Too Were Soldiers’ 1 By Dr Vi…
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The Western Front Association preserves a major Great War archive of 6.5 mi…
Introduction The Western Front Association (WFA) is delighted to announce that it has secured the s…
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MA Dissertations
The Western Front Association is pleased to showcase here MA Dissertations written on First World Wa…
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1914 The Memoirs of a Volunteer by Harry Fellows
[This article first appeared in Stand To! No 11 Summer 1984 pp.34-35. At this time, there were more …
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'The Western Front. A Plea for Understanding' by John Terraine
John Terraine’s 1983 Address to the Western Front Association. 1984 [This article first appeared in…
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Evidence in Camera. A cautionary tale by Dr A J Peacock
[The following article first appeared in the third edition of Stand To! December 1981 pp3-6. Western…
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Visiting and Revisiting the battlefields, 1919-1938
Throughout the Great War the battlefields and the hinterland behind them held a fascination for pe…
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Did Kitchener’s decision to raise his ‘New Armies’ carelessly wreck the pre…
The Liberal Party, which had been in power since the General Election of 1906, was nervous of Ger…
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Here come the girls! The women volunteers at the Army Pay Office Woolwich f…
Abstract August 2014 will witness the centenary of the start of the First World War. It is consider…
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