What did you do in the Great Centenary, Daddy/Mummy? It is already the UK’s most expensive commemoration in history thanks to £50 million of Government funding. War was actually declared in August but the centenary started much earlier: broadcast and publishing… Read More ›
Imperial War Museum
War turns into Peace – the 1914 Christmas Truce
British propaganda said the First World War would be over by Christmas 1914. It wasn’t. But peace of a different kind broke out on the Western Front when soldiers on both sides found their common humanity instead of the senseless… Read More ›