First World War

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The legacy of the First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A nurse on the French Eastern border treats a wounded soldier during the First World War. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

Pain through the prism of war

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Roman slavery and the man who started the First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Revealed: the British First World War officer who married a nurse who wanted him dead

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Q&A How did World War I change women’s lives?

Programme Name: The Crimson Field - TX: n/a - Episode: Generics (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: (c/w from back left) Sister Joan Livesey (SURANNE JONES), Sister Margaret Quayle (KERRY FOX), Matron Grace Carter (HERMIONE NORRIS), Lieutenant-Colonel Roland Brett (KEVIN DOYLE), Kitty Trevelyan (OONA CHAPLIN), Captain Thomas Gillan (RICHARD RANKIN), Captain Miles Hesketh-Thorne (ALEX WYNDHAM), Corporal Peter Foley (JACK GORDON), Flora Marshall (ALICE ST CLAIR), Rosalie Berwick (MARIANNE OLDHAM) - (C) BBC - Photographer: Todd Anthony

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Behind the scenes of new First World War drama The Crimson Field

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Q&A What was the only major naval battle in the First World War?

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Q&A How did the world go to war in 1914?

Group photo of Offiers at Holzminden POW camp. (Image provided by Channel 5)

The forgotten first Great Escape of 1918

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Escaping the Blitz and recording the First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Army recruits take the oath in White City, London, December 1914. “Creating an army more or less from scratch was a recipe for disastrous losses,” claims Niall Ferguson. (Getty Images)

“Britain should have stayed out of the First World War” says Niall Ferguson . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Refugees in Earls Court, Cardiff’s Land Girls, and the Glasgow Rent Strikes: BBC project to uncover life on the home front during WW1

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Was Britain right to fight WW1? History Extra readers divided