WW1 Centenary

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  Aug 8

  How the World Went to War in 1914

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  In August 1914, the peace of Europe unravelled quickly and Britain entered what would become the First World War. Diplomatic efforts to calm the …

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  Shanny Basar

  

  11 August 1918. The Allies won the Battle of Amiens. It was part of the series of Allied victories leading to the end of WW1. The Allied advance of 7 miles on day one was one of the greatest advances of the war. Erich Ludendorff called it: “The black day of the German Army.”

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  Shanny Basar

  

  Britain went to war #OTD in 1914: these men of 2/Royal Sussex Regiment were mobilised at their barracks in Woking. Within a week they were in France, fighting on the Marne, the Aisne & at Ypres. In a war said to be over by Christmas, how many of these faces lived to see it?

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  Paul Nash is one of the greatest artists you've never heard of. His depictions of the First World War are terrifying, engrossing, and unforgettable:

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  Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "Many south Asian diasporic families don’t know of their First World War links"

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  Kavita Puri explores lesser-known stories from our past Kavita Puri Subs offer In 2021, when my daughter was studying the First World War in her final …

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  Shanny Basar

  

  The Ploegsteert Memorial, located south of Ypres. It commemorates more than 11,000 soldiers who were missing in Belgium and France: many who died at Aubers Ridge in May 1915 and the Battle of the Lys in April 1918. #DailyBattlefields

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