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The Pals battalions of World War I

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Mametz, Western Front, a winter scene, painting by Frank Crozier | Public Domain

Lesser known facts about The Battle of the Somme

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The secret mission to select the Unknown Warrior

Mysteries

Was Churchill’s Dardanelles offensive doomed to fail?

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Treaty of Versailles

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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