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Articles on World War I
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How books can help veterans overcome physical and mental trauma.
Over four years, this BBC Radio 4 drama chronicled the daily lives of ordinary people dealing with the hardships of World War I.
Sphagnum moss made ideal field dressings for wounded soldiers.
The deep divide between Catholics and Protestants makes the coming together to honour the dead on both sides fraught with problems.
Stacks of treasured love letters can tell the intimate stories of war.
Battling shortages and rising food and fuel prices, housewives played a vital part in Britain's first experience of 'total war'.
Estimates suggest that Oxford lost 19% of those who served, Cambridge 18%, and Manchester and Glasgow 17%.
From the Swiss border to the English channel, a scholar describes his pilgrimage of the Western Front as a tribute to fallen soldiers and to learn more about the devastating loss of life.
It's time the Australians who voiced vociferous opposition to war in general and conscription in particular were commemorated as an important part of our history.
This year marks 100 years since the fighting stopped in the first world war. The commemoration of the armistice, Remembrance Day, remains potent but is also changing with the times.
Australian authorities sent artists to the WW1 battlefields to interpret and commemorate war. But unlike similar schemes in Britain and Canada, ours neglected the war experience at home and the perspective of women artists.
Veterans of past wars have long been at the forefront of peace advocacy in the United States.
For many health professionals, daily practice increasingly resembles trench warfare, which took a grave toll on WWI's soldiers.
During First World War, the rhetoric of chivalry counteracted the inhumanity of the conflict in sometimes surprising ways.
100 years after the end of World War I, some of its brutal lessons.
Wartime employment gains were merely on loan for women in Wales.
To some extent, shell-shock still shapes our understanding of PTSD today.
In September 1917, 22 German World War I prisoners held at a camp just outside Nottingham, managed to escape.
Red or white, it doesn't matter what colour your poppy is if you respect the sacrifice it represents.
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