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It is often said that history is more than just words on the written page. For various reasons, many parts of our past have ...
Her Majesty's Australian Submarine AE1 was a pioneering E-class vessel and the first submarine in the Royal Australian Navy, ...
Aviation evolved rapidly during WW1, with modern and more effective aircraft replacing the basic machines that took to the skies in 1914. Dr Peter Gray explores how the aeroplane turned into a ...
In 1919, Britain came close to a workers’ and soldiers’ uprising. But it’s not a story the official WW1 commemoration wants to highlight. The official 100th anniversary commemorations of World War One ...
WW1 ship camouflage Merchant ships had to be protected so Norman Wilkinson, an artist and Royal Navy volunteer, came up with the idea of covering ships in bold shapes and contrasting colours.
An "extremely rare" postcard written by World War One heroine and nurse Edith Cavell to her mother has sold at auction for €1,000 (about £880). The postcard is thought to have been sent around the ...
WW1 resulted in huge losses of African lives, had consequences for continent's future. Two million African soldiers, workers and porters were directly involved in World War I . CNN — ...
WW1: Tennessee's most famous soldier, Alvin C. York, didn't want to go to war. Amy McRary. Knoxville. A century has passed since Alvin C. York charged the enemy in France's Argonne Forest and ...