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Lasting from 1914-1918, World War 1 was the  first truly global war and one of the deadliest conflicts in human history

Accrington Pals by Tim Green | Flickr | Wikipedia | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
The Pals battalions of World War I

WW1

Mametz, Western Front, a winter scene, painting by Frank Crozier | Public Domain
Lesser known facts about The Battle of the Somme

WW1

The secret mission to select the Unknown Warrior

Mysteries

Was Churchill’s Dardanelles offensive doomed to fail?

WW1

Treaty of Versailles

WW2

When women’s football was bigger than men’s

Sport

AD Wintle and the aftermath of the battle of Festubert where he single-handedly captured a French village
The last Englishman - the unbelievable wartime exploits of AD Wintle

WW1

The Easter Rising: the spark that ignited a nation

Battles

The Russian Revolution set the stage for Joseph Stalin (pictured).
The Russian Revolution, a Century On

Battles

Battle of Falklands 1914, William Lionel Wyllie,
The Empire Strikes Back: The First Battle of the Falkland Islands 1914

WW1

Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, sick with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston: Wikipedia
The forgotten agony - the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19

Health

The Compiègne wagon
The Compiègne wagon: one train carriage two peace treaties

Hitler

Left: a group of soldiers in the trenches, right: the ruined village of Athies, Pas-de-Calais, destroyed in the German retreat
Operation Alberich, the campaign that inspired Sam Mendes' 1917

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Battle of the Somme Facts

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History of horses during WWI

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5 technological innovations from WW1

Hitler

Mohawk soldiers serving in the Canadian Corps during WW1
How the British Empire made WW1 possible

WW2 Treasure Hunters

10 little known facts about WW1

WW1

The Poets and Poetry of WW1

Hitler

Native American Code Breakers of WW1

Hitler

Wernher von Braun and the V2 rocket
The death of the doodlebug: The rise and fall of Hitler’s V-weapons

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Damage from a Zeppelin raid, Great Yarmouth, January 1915 (left), an L3 Zeppelin
Terror from the air: The German Zeppelin raids of 1915 - 1918

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Using Ancestry to research your family’s wartime history

WW1

The coffin of the Unknown Warrior in state in the Abbey in 1920 | Wikipedia
‘Unknown by name or rank’: The grave of the Unknown Warrior

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