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Animals in the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. 
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Petrograd’s expatriates provide a running commentary on the fall of the czar in Helen Rappaport’s “Caught in the Revolution.”
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Editorial: Like the year that’s just ending, the year of the Russian Revolution was a moment of irreversible change
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During 1916, a German Zeppelin the length of a battle cruiser, filled with highly flammable hydrogen, narrowly avoided dropping a blazing inferno on Chadwell Heath.
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IT WAS a lovely day. “The weather,” wrote Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon in his diary for Saturday, July 1, 1916, “was of the kind commonly called heavenly.”
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A hundred years ago, Switzerland welcomed thousands of wounded WW1 prisoners of war to recover and sit out the war, but the story was almost forgotten.
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Our supplement on the Somme is now all online. @SommeAssoc @thesomme19240 @SommeActu @FranceinIreland http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/century/the-somme
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The turmoil and tragedy of life in the World War One trenches is replicated at a mid Wales castle as part of centenary events.
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All the wrecks of #Jutland found. The story of each ship lost retold through archaeology #Jutland100 #WW1
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Mar 5th 1916: Mechanical and magnetic hands: "Science's newest devices to make war cripples useful". pic.twitter.com/ehDZuWmDYf
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During the Battle of Verdun by Feb 26 1916 France had lost 26,000 men on the "devil’s anvil"
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By DR ROBERT T. FOLEYFor many years I envied the research sources available to my colleagues writing about contemporary defence and strategic issues. The ability to research a project from the comfort of their favorite desk, be this at home or in the office, seemed so much more appealing than exhausting and sometime fruitless searching…
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There were few official telegram messages worse than “Killed in Action” during the First World War; however, one of those had to be “Missing in Action”. Roughly 5 000 soldiers of Canada’s total fatal casualties are listed as “presumed to have died”; many more were initially listed as KIA and even possibly buried, but their…
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This is the third of three posts covering German planning for Operation Gericht, their offensive at Verdun. This month marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of this battle, which would last, including French counter-offensives, until the end of 1916. Although it is not as well remembered in Britain today, the 'hell of Verdun' left…
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Was the Battle of the Somme necessary? No, argues Allan Mallinson. http://www.historytoday.com/allan-mallinson/permanent-stain-somme …
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This month our #bookofthemonth is #TheSomme by @prior_robin & Trevor Wilson – newly updated! http://ow.ly/3aYu301TEFXEmpty description
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Commonwealth troops advance into No Man's Land at the Somme. It happened 100 years ago next month. (Image source: WikiCommons) “Publishers, app developers and
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That's it today! Few reminders. @Somme_100 is back from the printer - don't forget to preorder your copy! #Somme100
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#OTD 16/5/1916 Leon Moreau Regiment d'Infanterie 11th Cie, 1re Section describes Verdun. Killed in action 4/9/1916
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A chart of typical ambulance service at the front https://archive.org/stream/historyofamericaff01seym#page/n60/mode/1up
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1916: Newspapers, diaries and more from a year that changed Ireland. #EasterRising and #Somme with @BBCVoices16
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1916 brought us Verdun, ‘The most fiercely protracted battle this earth had ever seen’: ow.ly/YOEjB pic.twitter.com/LpXMXjNrCv
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#FridayFeeling from the sheet music archives | This surprising spring weather has us thinking of Paris! | #WW1 pic.twitter.com/XmM08d60zw
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