HMS Argus – the first aircraft carrier
How early naval aviation led first to seaplanes and then aircraft carriers.
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History The WW1 factory train that's transporting people 104 years later
The train may be old and quaint but it comes from a dark time in British history when it was used to move materials for weapon production.
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History Inter-Allied Games: When WW1 Veterans Held Their Own Olympics
The multi-sport event brought together personnel from 14 Allied nations on the outskirts of Paris at the end of the First World War.
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History Medical Evacuation: How Frontline Treatment Has Evolved
Medevac teams swiftly evacuate casualties from battle but how has the process changed since WW1?
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WWI How soldiers trained for trench warfare in WW1
Touring the remains of First World War training trenches near Marlow.
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History How the memory of two fallen servicemen is kept alive on a remote Scottish island
How does the Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintain such remote graves?
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History The Royal British Legion at 100: The evolution of remembrance
Why has the desire to honour our war dead not faded over time?
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Army England v Germany: Football In The Trenches
As England take on Germany at Wembley, take a look back at the most famous football match of WW1.
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WWI Hollywood Historical Adviser Constructs Replica WW1 Trenches In Kent
The 150m network of trenches are based upon those used in a Belgium woodland during the war.
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Feature How fish and chips might have helped us win both world wars
One of Britain's favourite takeaways has a secret
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Navy WW1 U-boat mystery solved by Devonport divers
Divers from Devonport Naval Base went 70 metres down in the English Channel to positively ID the wreck of U-95.
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History Commonwealth War Graves Commission: A Brief History
From Fabian Ware and Rudyard Kipling to the CWGC we know today
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WWI Revealed: WW1 Veteran's Wartime Memoirs
The daughter of a Great War veteran is sharing her father's published memoirs to raise money for SSAFA.
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World International Booker Prize: 'Frightening' WW1 Novel Wins Award
David Diop's 'At Night All Blood Is Black' tells the story of a young Senegalese soldier as he fights for France in the First World War.
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WWI Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Search For WW1's Forgotten Heroes
A recent report found "pervasive racism" was behind a failure to properly commemorate a large number of black and Asian service personnel.
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Remembrance Doorstep History: Memorial Trees In The Village Of Tylers Green
How one village in Buckinghamshire remembers those who died in the First World War