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To some extent, shell-shock still shapes our understanding of PTSD today.
German prisoners of war at Sutton Bonington during the period when it was a PoW Camp, 1916-19.
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In September 1917, 22 German World War I prisoners held at a camp just outside Nottingham, managed to escape.
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Red or white, it doesn’t matter what colour your poppy is if you respect the sacrifice it represents.
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A podcast on World War I – from a meeting between the three great war poets, to what happened to conscientious objectors in both Britain and Germany.
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The events of the war caused Irish nationalists to push harder for their independence.
The delegations signing the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors.
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The Treaty of Versailles is often named as the main cause of World War II. But this is an overly simple explanation.
Men of U.S. 64th Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, celebrate the news of the Armistice, November 11, 1918.
Writers like Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle and J.M. Barrie suffered personal loss during the First World War. Their grief and insight helped readers with their own post-war collective grief.
Reconstructive surgery carried out between 1916 and 1918.
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Medical advances were the only positive things to come out of the Great War.
William Kentridge.
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For William Kentridge, searching and erasure serves as a model for understanding our place in the world.
Delville Wood Memorial in Cape Town.About 2300 white soldiers died in the First World War battle.
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For black South Africans, the hard lesson was the same as it had been during the Boer war: support for Britain would bring few rewards.
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It’s beautiful, clever and moving. But Peter Jackson’s use of colour and added sound essentially fictionalises this account of life in the trenches.
David Lloyd George gives a speech at Criccieth, north Wales, in 1914.
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100 years ago David Lloyd George was the name on everyone’s lips – so why has he largely been forgotten?
Memorial bench at the University of Saskatchewan.
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On the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the University of Saskatchewan will be dedicating a memorial bench on the university campus.
Wilfred Owen was killed in action on November 4, 1918.
Frontispiece from Poems of Wilfred Owen (1920)
Dead at 25, a week before World War I ended, Owen summed up the conflict’s waste and futility.
People place flowers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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After the killing of 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, a scholar explains why this hate crime reminds her of the political climate between the two world wars in the US.
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In the sense understood by François Jullien, the Chinese “thought language” allows us to change our view of Europe.
To try and understand the Russian revolution outside of the broader social context of the time is to neglect the development of nationhood in the region.
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The Russian Revolution – an event that affected more than Russia and was more than a revolution.
German internees at the Holsworthy Internment Camp during the first world war.
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4,500 people with German ancestry were interned in Australia when the first world war broke out. A new translation project sheds light on their experiences.
John Barker Sorrowing mother c.1916, oil on canvas.
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Seven Australian composers feature in an epic communal piece of music honouring the Australians who died on the Western Front. It will have its premiere in Canberra, this Saturday.
Members of the Canadian Forces march during a Remembrance Day ceremony in Vancouver, B.C., on Nov. 11, 2017.
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Canadians’ indifference to their military isn’t so surprising. Almost every military conflict has raised serious questions, and spurred divisive debate, about Canadian unity and independence.