How real was it? By Dan Cruickshank. Women in uniform were a novelty in 1914 and yet 80,000 women served in the forces as non-combatants during World War One. Discover how one exceptional ...

BBC Documentaries marking the centenary of World War One. BBC One Opening the World War One commemoration season on the BBC and produced in partnership with the Open University, landmark new ...

World War One is often seen as a pointless, bloody conflict with no lasting peace. Incompetent Generals sent their men to their deaths, using outdated tactics and never using new technology to ...

BBC drama programming to mark the centenary of World War One. BBC One Sarah Phelps’ gripping drama tells the story of World War One’s front line medics – their hopes, fears, triumphs and ...

Propaganda is used to try to make people think a certain way. Stories about bad things the Germans had done were told to make people angry and frightened so everyone would want Britain to beat ...

One hundred years ago today, the First World War ended in Europe. The Armistice took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month ...

The laces made in Belgium during World War One are an important part of the lace holdings of the Division of Home and Community Life’s Textile Collection in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...