Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some 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.
Tackling the six biggest classroom clichés of the First World War
Teaching the Great War and tackling the classroom clichés Teaching History at School Image from...
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Why the British Army did not mutiny en masse on the Western Front during...
Why the British Army did not mutiny en masse on the Western Front during the First World War Man...
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The Rationale for and the Deployment of Poisonous Gas on The Western Fro...
The rationale for and the deployment of poisonous gas on The Western Front in the Great War Intr...
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The BEF, Human Diseases and Trench Warfare on The Western Front
Introduction The Great War was the first major conflict where the death rate due to the trauma o...
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Trench Diseases of the First World War
Trench Diseases of the First World War Introduction to the Western Front The establishment by the...
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The Final One Hundred Days of the Western Front by Dr David Payne
Introduction The British involvement in war on the Western Front lasted for 1,294 days: from the...
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'From Private to Major via the Foresters Arms': The life, death and redi...
British visitors to the south of France will often take the A26 'Autoroute des Anglais' out of Ca...
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Major 'Alastair' Soutar, M.C.
One of the well known 'classic' accounts of the First World War is 'Twelve Days' published in 193...
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Brothers in Arms
Detailed biographies of individuals who served during the First World War.
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Porton Revealed
General view of Porton from the water tower, c.1918. In the centre background is ’Gas Wood’, whe...
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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 a...
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