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.
‘The Women of Westfield - picking up the pieces after the First World War’
Dr Martin Purdy (Lancs and Cheshire WFA branch) recently managed a Heritage Lottery funded projec...
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Official correspondence following a death in the Great War – Private Cor...
The improved availability of online records has made tracing of the life and service of a Great W...
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The Enemy Above: British Reactions to German Zeppelin Raids in the Great...
The Enemy Above: British Reactions to German Zeppelin Raids in the Great War by Frank A Blazich J...
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The Bombing of London by airships, bomber aircraft and seaplanes 1914 -...
The Bombing of London By Ian Castle (Reproduced here under Creative Commons license from the 1...
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The First Air Raid: Great Yarmouth by Bob Wyatt
This item by Bob Wyatt, the Book Review Editor for Stand To! from 1987 to 2017, appeared in Stand...
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The End of The Zeppelins
This item first appeared in Stand To! No. 31 (Spring 1991). It was the 22nd piece in a series tit...
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Revist 'The Camera Returns' (47) Beaucourt-en-Santerre with Google Stree...
The Camera Returns (47) Beaucourt-en-Santerre. Original research by Steve Wall and Bob Grundy. Tr...
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The Advance Beyond Kilimanjaro German East Africa (now Tanzania), March...
Whilst the 2nd East African Division under Major General M J Tighe prepared to fight the battle o...
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The Battle of the Bees
The First World War was a global conflict. Although the vast majority of the fighting took place...
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The Final Whistle: Rosslyn Park - a Rugby Club at War
This is the story of fifteen men and more from one London rugby club who answered the call to arm...
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The golden locket, the hidden grave and the forgotten soldier : Ireland...
On Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, as the independent Irish Republic was being declared from the st...
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The Battle for the South Dublin Union 1916
On 24 April 1916, Patrick Pearse declared an independent Irish republic from the steps of the Gen...
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