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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 have heard Laurence Binyon’s words 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 &…

The dog was inspired by AA Milne’s time in the First World War.

THE lost grave of a Scots soldier who died during the First World War has been discovered and rededicated after more than 100 years.

The novel, set in the First World War, was described as ‘comfortingly classic yet daringly original’ by judges.

Land leased to the community to grow vegetables after the first world war is needed now more than ever, gardeners say