It was not by long-term design that the first woman took her seat in the House of Commons.
Whilst Victory day 1919 was planned as a celebration, the emotions evoked were more diverse and complex.
German anger at the Treaty of Versailles between the wars is well known. Hitler, in his rise to power, exploited this deep resentment. So how did such a contentious document come into existence and why was it signed?
On 11 November we remember the guns ceasing firing. We imagine universal relief that the carnage of war was finally over, at least in the victorious countries. There is just one problem: that is not the complete truth.
General Ludendorff described 8 August as ‘the black day of the German Army’. Many British Historians consider it the final turning point in the First World War. To say that the British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, and Field Marshal Haig …
...prefix their names with ‘Royal’. In 1919 they returned to their duties carrying civilians. Further reading London Gazette Despatches https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31189/supplement/251 Keep tabs on the past.Sign up for our email alerts....
...Red Baron, courtesy of David Marks’ collection He was born in 1892 to an aristocratic Prussian Military family and at the age of 11 enrolled into military school. Graduating as...
Learn how the General Register Office, responsible for the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales, coped with the extra demands which resulted from the First World War.
To begin this blog, I am going to set the scene and ask a few hypothetical questions. Imagine it is the height of summer, 1917. The Great War has been raging for almost three years, and there is still no …
...had no sons but he did have close family involved, namely his brother Charlie who was wounded fighting in British East Africa and had his left arm amputated. He also...