First World War

Boys playing conkers in 1926. Horse chestnuts played an unlikely role in the war effort just a few years earlier. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Did conkers help win the First World War?

Young Belgian refugees wave a British flag during celebrations for Belgian National Day in London during the First World War

Belgian refugees in WW1 Britain: were they welcome guests?

Silence in Piccadilly Circus, London as people commemorate the anniversary of the end of the First World War. (Photo by Daily Mail / Rex Features)

From the first Remembrance Day to remembrance today

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London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)

Rationing, school closures and ‘Blitz spirit’: how did people cope in WW2?

Photographs documenting the facial reconstruction of a soldier whose cheek was extensively wounded during the Battle of the Somme

What happened to the 8 million people who were disabled during WW1?

Portrait by Sherril Schell of British poet Rupert Brooke. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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WW1 poets 5 famous figures you should know about

Bird's eye view: An old woman with a 'fortune telling' parakeet in 1920s London. Those who questioned science and reason in postwar Britain were

The rise of spiritualism after WW1

Photo of flu patients during the First World War

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Q&A Why was the 1918-19 pandemic known as Spanish Flu?

A line-up of girls ready to play football, somewhere in England during the First World War, c1917. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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10 facts you (probably) didn’t know about the First World War

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Indian soldiers during WWI

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A still from Sam Mendes film '1917'

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“A staggering tour de force – but an opportunity missed”: a historian’s review of the film 1917

A despatch rider during WW1, as featured in new Sam Mendes film '1917'

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The real trench runners of WW1

Peronne, March 1917

Operation Alberich: the story of Germany’s retreat in 1917

French prime minister Georges Clemenceau (left), US president Woodrow Wilson (centre) and British PM David Lloyd George at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. The treaty's provisions have been blamed for causing the Second World War. (Image by Topfoto)

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Did the Versailles peace treaty trigger another world war?