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After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home

In March 1915, a young British man named Raymond Lodge was deployed to Ypres, France, to fight on the front lines of the first world war. By September, he was dead, aged just 26.

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Ralph Fiennes on ‘painful’ comparison between young cast and Ukrainians at war

Fiennes stars in The Choral, which follows his character as he recruits teenagers into a choral society during the First World War.

Evening Standard

AI, drone ships and new sensors could leave submarines with few places to hide in the ocean

For over a century, the ocean has been the ultimate refuge for those who wished to disappear. From the U-boats of the first world war to the nuclear-powered leviathans that glide through today’s deep waters, the submarine has thrived on one simple principle: stealth.

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Taylor Swift has branded herself a showgirl. These hardworking women have a long and bejewelled history

The iconic feathered showgirl was born amid the chaos of the first world war, when the wealthy, global French superstar Gaby Deslys entertained Parisians and Allied soldiers in a 1917 show called Laissez-les tombe! (Let Them Fall), a dazzling spectacle of ostrich feathers, rhinestones and beauty.

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Princess Royal rededicates war cenotaph to those who made ‘ultimate sacrifice’

Hundreds of people from Dunfermline were killed it the First World War.

Evening Standard

Scots soldiers laid to rest exactly 110 years after they fell in First World War

The MoD’s war detectives used DNA to identify the remains, which were found during construction work near Lens, a city in northern France.

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The Edwardians: Age of Elegance – a glimpse into royal patronage of the arts in the early 20th century

King Edward VII, the son of Queen Victoria, ascended the throne upon her death in 1901, but unlike his mother, he ruled for a very short period and died in 1910. His reign, along with the years immediately before the outbreak of the first world war in 1914, are known…

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Engineering pioneer Ricardo joins exodus from London stock market with £281m sale

The company was formed as Engine Patents Limited by Sir Harry Ricardo during the First World War in February 1915.

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26 Of The Most Interesting Examples Of The “Butterfly Effect” Happening In History

Check out these historical butterfly effects, from who caused the First World War to theories about what caused the fall of the Berlin Wall, Brexit, the rise of Lego, and beyond.

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Statues of JRR Tolkien and his wife to be unveiled in East Yorkshire

The wooden statues commemorate the author’s time in the area while recuperating after the first world war and a moment that inspired a tale of star-crossed love in Middle-earth

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Greater Sins by Gabrielle Griffiths review – a dark discovery upturns a Scottish village

The unearthing of a woman’s body in a peat bog during the first world war is the catalyst for a gritty tale of secrets, guilt and desire

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Education for peace: the effort to teach children how to rebuild societies after WWII

While the first world war and the Spanish civil war had already drawn children in Europe and beyond into the orbit of conflict, the second world war marked a pivotal period in how young people have experienced the horrors of war.

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Flu vaccines have prevented millions of deaths – our research proves it

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused around 50 million deaths, and its impact was so severe that global life expectancy fell dramatically. It claimed more lives than the First World War.

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Contaminated French soil yet to recover from the wounds of war

More than a century after the First World War, vast stretches of French soil remain contaminated, with some areas still too hazardous to access. Experts warn it could take 700 years to clear hidden munitions – the legacy of a conflict that wrought unprecedented destruction on the land.

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Evening Standard

Starmer marks Armistice Day at Paris ceremony with Macron

The Prime Minister said he was honoured to pay tribute to the fallen of the First World War alongside the French president.

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Starmer in Paris for Armistice Day commemoration

While Sir Keir Starmer is in France, events will be held in the UK to mark the guns falling silent at the end of the First World War.

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Remembrance Day returns to its traditional ground at Australian War Memorial

It's the 106th anniversary of the ending of the First World War.

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Making friends with the enemy: what stories of soldiers’ unexpected battlefield meetings reveal about the trauma of war

James Brady, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the first world war, struggled to narrate the moment he was taken captive by German soldiers while serving on the western front. In the draft of his memoir, he crossed out and rewrote this section repeatedly.

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Country Diary: All of life takes place in a rural village hall

Inkpen, West Berkshire: The ‘old girl’ is 100 years old – as are many others built around Britain after the first world war. We give it the celebration it deserves

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Australia treats its armed forces veterans with a perversely shabby contempt

If you are going to define the birth of a nation by imperial adventures abroad then you must honour and respect those who return damaged

The National (Scotland)

Exhibition highlights BAME soldiers experience in First World War

AN EXHIBITION set to open during Black History Month will reflect on the experience of soldiers from across the Commonwealth in the First World War.

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A Soldier’s Journey: new first world war memorial in Washington revitalises classic image of the ‘American doughboy’

America’s inaugural national memorial marking the first world war was unveiled this month in Washington DC, on the birthday of war commander General John J. Pershing – 106 years after the end of the war. We don’t often get to see a new memorial to a century-old war, especially one…

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Robert Harris’s Precipice, reviewed: it’s an injustice this great novelist hasn’t won more literary prizes

During the dawn of the First World War, HH Asquith sent more than 700 letters to an aristocratic young woman almost half his age – but did the Liberal PM actually have an affair with Venetia Stanley? The story forms the basis of one of the most enthralling novels yet…

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Circuits to have hosted the F1 British Grand Prix since its debut

The British GP has become synonymous with its now permanent home of Silverstone circuit, which is widely regarded as one of the best tracks in the world.Silverstone, which lies in Northamptonshire, also hosted F1’s inaugural race in 1950 but it has not been the venue for every British GP since.In…

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Weatherwatch: The forgotten sinking of the Empress of Ireland

Months before the first world war, the ocean liner sank in the St Lawrence River after a collision in thick fog

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