Blogs on this site

A poppy is cheap; remembrance and solidarity are not by Pierre Purseigle
Poetry vs. History by Stuart Lee
“Wyndham's War”: One Man’s Account of Living in Ruhleben Internment Camp by Derek Richards
Current Crafts Craze Echoes World War I Knitting Projects by Jane Tynan
Curtains Drawn: The Experience of Leeds in World War One by Stephanie Webb
Shot at Dawn by George Campbell Gosling
Of historians and politicians - cross-post by Jessica Meyer
Michael Morpurgo again (cross-post) by Kate Lindsay
Where to Begin? Sharing a Community’s War with the Young by Kate Spiller
The Language of Business: Understanding the British ‘war machine’ by Christopher Phillips
The First World War in History by Dan Todman
The War Underground: An Overview by Matt Leonard
The Art of Remembering: the Neville Lytton First World War Frescos and the Balcombe Victory Hall by Melanie Winterton
‘Surplus Women’: a legacy of World War One? by Rosemary Wall
Forgetting the French by Chris Kempshall
Rose Macaulay, Hurt-Berries and Compassion Fatigue by Kate McLoughlin
The British Army’s fight against Venereal Disease in the ‘Heroic Age of Prostitution’* by Richard Marshall
The 'Spanish' Influenza pandemic and its relation to World War I by Kenneth Kahn
Politics of Sport: The 1920 Olympic Games by Kate Lindsay
Conventional Unconventionality in the British Army by Dan Todman
The Dying Kiss: Gender and Intimacy in the Trenches of World War I by Santanu Das
Not Quite the Ticket by Christopher Harvie
The Ypres Salient: A global commitment to total war by Matt Leonard
Erster Weltkrieg : What is it Good For ? by Stephen Bull
Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen by Tim Kendall
The Durand Group: modern conflict archaeology beneath the Western Front by Matt Leonard
A senseless war? by Matt Leonard
Wikipedia and the fronts of World War I by Pat Lockley
The Battle of Arras: An Overview by Everett Sharp
Arras: The Forgotten Battlefield by Paul Reed
The foundations of the Battle of Arras by Matt Leonard
Tactics and Training – Arras 1917 by Stephen Barker
Eastern culture on the Western Front by Matt Leonard
Perspectives on 'shell shock' by Fionnuala Barrett
18-Pounder Artillery Shells: The Great War Recycled and Re-Circulated by Melanie Winterton
@Arras95: Twitter Archive by Kate Lindsay
10/West Yorks at Arras: An Overview of a Forgotten Battalion by David Stowe
Absent Parachute by Melanie Winterton
The First World War of Objects by Matt Leonard
The Georgians will inherit the earth… by Stuart Lee
Truth-telling versus literary allusion in David Jones’s 'In Parenthesis' (1937) by Anna Johnson
‘War Horse’ at Monchy-le-Preux – 11 April 1917 by Stephen Barker
Bronze caribou and Monchy le Preux by Matt Leonard
August 1914: England’s Difficulty, Ireland’s Opportunity? by Catriona Pennell
Commemoration and Conciliation during the Royal Visit to Ireland by Edward Madigan
New worlds, old worlds and underworlds: ‘conflict culture’ and the First World War by Matt Leonard
All Quiet on the Wikipedia Front? by Pat Lockley
Is act of remembrance losing its original 'never again' sentiment? by Catriona Pennell
War Horse Poetry by Tim Kendall
How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today by Dan Todman
The War, The Great War, The First World War by Stuart Lee
Combat Gnosticism and the Woman Poets by Tim Kendall
The She-Soldiers of World War One by Kate Lindsay
Staged Photography and Photography as a Stage by Kate Lindsay