First World War

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Following the horrors of the First World War, people around the world set out to create “perfect” societies – with mixed results. Anna Neima charts their efforts. (Image from Getty Images)

Building utopia after WW1 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Eugene Rogan answers listener questions on one of history’s most powerful and long lasting empires. (Image from Getty Images)

The Ottoman empire: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories

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Jonathan Westaway explores why there was a boom in the popularity of endurance running following the First World War. (Image by Getty Images)

Running to escape the horrors of war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The feared WW2 German battleship 'Bismarck', May 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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The crew of SMS King in its home port following the battle of the Skagerrak, June 1916. (Photo by A Renard/ullstein image via Getty Images)

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Jutland: the battle that won the First World War

Members of the royal family: Prince Louis; Prince George; Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; Princess Charlotte; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Prince Charles, Prince of Wales; Princess Anne, Princess Royal; and Queen Elizabeth II during the Queen's annual birthday parade on 8 June 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Q&A How did the royals choose 'Windsor'?

Troops pictured during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War

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Gallipoli: 5 reasons why the First World War campaign was a failure

Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

Revolution on the western front

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Nick Lloyd reveals how the First World War’s western front was shaped by transformative military and technological advancements. (Image by Getty Images)

The western front: a cauldron of innovation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

“Far too little, too late”: what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain?

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World leaders (l-r) Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson and Lloyd George after signing the treaty of Versailles at the end of the First World War. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Tim Grady gives a lecture exploring the varied experiences of German Jews in the First World War. (Image by Getty Images)

German Jews in WW1 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)

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Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?

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Historian Margaret Macmillan

“To destroy a library is to erase part of the cultural memory of humankind”: Margaret MacMillan on war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.