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Remembrance Day 2025: War quotes to celebrate Armistice Day

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

Evening Standard

Remembrance Day: five beautiful novels about war commemoration

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.

The Conversation

When is Remembrance Day 2024? Free train travel offered to military personnel and veterans

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

Evening Standard

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OPINION - John Lewis’s problems go far deeper than just Sharon White

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 &…

Evening Standard

Dog named Carmen is latest to join Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood

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

The Independent UK

Lost grave of Scots soldier who died in First World War found and rededicated

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 National (Scotland)

Alice Winn’s In Memoriam scoops Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023

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

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‘He should be a custodian’: London allotment holders lament duke’s bid to build flats

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

The Guardian - UK

Conscientious objectors in the second world war: little-known stories of pacifists plagued by doubt but willing to risk their lives

Like many conscientious objectors during the second world war, John Corsellis was acutely aware of the complex and conflicted position he was taking. Years later, he told the Imperial War Museum’s oral history project:

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How 1920s high society fashion pushed gender boundaries through 'freaking' parties

The 1920s brought about a rise in androgynous fashion among a high society set that broke boundaries and caused controversy. This drew on a subculture that had existed for decades, perhaps centuries, but after the first world war gender-bending fashions became front page news.

The Conversation

Galwally House in South Belfast to get £4,000 grant from Lisburn Castlereagh Council

"By the 1930s the hospital was the property of the UVF, a militia that had suffered heavy casualties during the First World War, when many of their number served as part of the 36th (Ulster) Division."

Belfast Live

Damir Imamović: The World and All That It Holds review – lightning bolts of emotion

The Bosnian musician combines Slavic sevdah, Sephardic Jewish and original songs to tell the story of two soldiers who fall in love during the first world war

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh's forgotten castle that was destroyed by builders due to 'admin error'

The medieval Granton Castle managed to survive for the best part of 500 years, until a regrettable case of mistaken identity sealed its fate shortly after the First World War.

Edinburgh Live

French kids pay tribute to thousands of Brit soldiers killed during Battle of the Somme

Five years after the First World War ended, in May 1923 the Daily Mirror reported on the inauguration of a memorial in the small village. And 100 years on locals, including kids, paid a fresh tribute

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Kettle’s Yard: how Britain’s avant garde found a cosy home in Cambridge

A new book celebrates Jim Ede, the patron whose museum-home is a chapel to 20th-century British art – in particular that generation who were driven to search for meaning after the first world war

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How the British press covered the establishment of Israel – I looked into the newspaper archives to find out

On the evening of May 14 1948, the People’s Council of the Jewish Community in Tel Aviv did not wait for the midnight expiry of Britain’s League of Nations mandate in Palestine. The mandate had given Britain administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan after the end of the…

The Guardian - US

The Wounded World review: brilliant biography of WEB Du Bois at war

Chad L Williams charts the great Black intellectual’s journey through the first world war. It makes essential reading

The Guardian - AU

‘We’d like the two periscopes’: the mission to save a piece of Australia’s first submarine

The AE1 was found 103 years after it sank in the first world war. Now a team hopes to salvage part of the disintegrating wreck to be preserved in a museum

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Evening Standard

Waterloo’s century old glass roof to be replaced with plastic

Work has begun to replace Waterloo’s 100-year-old station roof which was last rebuilt just after the First World War in 1922.

The Conversation

Ukraine war: why WWI comparisons can lead to underestimates of Russia's strengths

The current conflict in Ukraine frequently elicits parallels with the first world war. It’s a comparison being made by politicians, journalists, analysts and military personnel.

The Week

Trip of the week: the glories of Trieste – then and now

As the great seaport of the Habsburg empire, Trieste was a “thriving ethnic, financial and cultural crossroads”, dubbed “Europiccola” (Europe in miniature) by James Joyce. Then came the First World War, and the grand geopolitical shifts of the 20th century, which left it ever more isolated – hemmed in on…

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Africans in World War 1: artist William Kentridge's epic theatre production restores forgotten histories

South African artist William Kentridge became world famous for his charcoal drawings and hand-drawn animated films, but his work continued to grow in scope and he began staging performances. Today he also creates operas and collaborative stage productions combining numerous art forms.

Edinburgh Live

Incredible drone footage shows East Lothian's abandoned village trapped in time

Since its closure in 2010, the former Edenhall Hospital in Musselburgh has been left to be consumed by its surroundings. During the First World War, it was a treatment centre for limbless soldiers

The Guardian - UK

In Memoriam by Alice Winn review – an elegy for young love

Two young men journey from the classroom to the trenches in this tale of a forbidden relationship set against the first world war

The Guardian - UK

In Memoriam by Alice Winn review – a vivid rendering of love and frontline brutality in the first world war

Conflict is seen through the lens of a schoolboy love affair in Winn’s devastating debut novel

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