Refugees, internment, training and protest.
Exploring the connections between the towns and how the fallen are remembered
Where relations with German neighbours became bitter with war
Smedley’s has been at Lea Mills in Derbyshire since 1784. By 1914, it was a spinning mill
Honouring the fallen with a fitting resting place
Major General Sir Oliver Nugent and Lord Farnham's friendship in WW1
Medwyn Parry and ex-serviceman Dougie Bankcroft set out on the ‘thankful village’ tour.
A group of German Naval offers attempt an escape from a prison camp on the Denbigh Moors.
A friend’s death that inspired life-saving equipment for pilots
Ethé: Professor of modern European and Eastern languages became a target of the mob.
ML3 0JB - The story of Hamilton Barracks at the time of the First World War.
Training at home for the battlefield abroad
A vital role in training the British army in marksmanship and weapon skills
Wallingford practice trenches dug by volunteer force to practice bombing and trench raids
‘Big society’ idealism 100 years before it became a modern political term
A line of pillboxes are built in preparation for German invasion
Some of the first Suffolk soldiers to serve overseas were territorials
How a tunneler took part in one of the most famous tunnelling operations of the war
Steel was in short supply during WW1 so rail tracks were raised to meet demands
The businessman stripped of his British knighthood seemingly due to his German origin
Where people worked and lived during the war
Western Front trenches replica along Blackpool Promenade
The buses that came and then went to the front line
Graphic descriptions of trench life by a postman serving on the front line
Cavalry of farmers and landowners who were asked to ditch their horses for machine guns