The Latest Breaking News from the first world war

With swathes of men conscripted during the First World War Women’s football underwent an unexpected boom, but sadly this success story turned into a tragic missed opportunity

Hundreds of Munitionette teams played in Britain during the first world war – and their story is being told on stage

An ‘empty patch’ in the national story, the Edwardian era – between the death of Queen Victoria and the start of the first world war – has many parallels with today

Brief letters: Men in skirts | Government priorities | The misery of January | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Give pants a chance

The Jamaican poet on his new collection about West Indian soldiers in the first world war, diving into the messiness of language, and the book he rereads every autumn

A two-minute silence took place across the UK at 11am to commemorate the end of the First World War and other conflicts involving British and Commonwealth forces

Saturday marks three decades since the then prime minister brought the grief of European battlegrounds home, paying homage to one of the 20,000 Australians who died in the first world war yet remain unidentified

You are likely to hear Laurence Binyon’s words on Sunday but what other quotes have been associated with Remembrance Sunday? 

Every autumn, the UK participates in an astonishing commemorative practice: the annual charity drive of the Poppy Appeal. From its origins during the first world war to the purple poppy commemorating animals in wartime, the artificial poppy has become a fragile but enduring symbol of remembrance.

November 11 is a chance to honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice

John Lewis is a doughty symbol of London retail, but that does not guarantee it a bricks-and-mortar future. Gamages on Holborn traded in everything from toys to supplying the army with catapults during the First World War, but was an anachronism in swinging London by the Seventies, while Dickins &…