Home From the War: What Happened to Disabled First World War Veterans
Around 2 million soldiers, sailors and airmen came home with some level of disability: over 40,000 were amputees; some had facial disfigurement or had been blinded.
Around 2 million soldiers, sailors and airmen came home with some level of disability: over 40,000 were amputees; some had facial disfigurement or had been blinded.
In the First World War every village saw young people leave to serve their country. Over 700,000 Britons died, yet 53 village communities suffered no fatalities.
Prisoners were interned in hundreds of locations across England, ranging from purpose-built camps holding thousands of men, to locations that held just a few individuals.
A mystery postcard collection documents the unveiling of local war memorials, with hundreds of people present. Each memorial represents a different tale of loss in a northern town.
The First World War was the first conflict in which aviation played a major role.
First World War memorials range from simple stone crosses to monumental bronzes; from village halls to
This is the story of the Labour Corps, comprised mostly of a multi-ethnic army of workers, without whom the war would have ground to a halt.
Today, 20 November 2017, marks the centenary of the first mass use of tanks in the First World War.
100 years on from the First World War, evidence of damage and loss can still be seen on our streets.
The aftermath of the First World War saw a wave of public commemoration, sometimes in the form of quite unusual war memorials.