Behind Their Lines

Percy Smith, Solitude High Wood, Sanctuary Wood, Delville Wood, Polygon Wood, Belleau Wood – these are some of the best-known sites of the f...

Lord Horatio Nelson British maritime poems of the First World War frequently called upon the  naval heroes of Britain’s past to inspire the ...

Käthe Kollwitz, "The Mothers" Although best known for her Anne of Green Gables fiction series, L.M. Montgomery was first publishe...

The Sisters , by Edmund Dulac IWM ART 2059 One of the best-known English poems of the First World War is one of the earliest written: Lauren...

  Austrian troops advancing in the  Carpathians (image from Library of Congress) “How many of you have had the pleasure of seeing your own g...

Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island Poetry of the Great War can turn up in the most unlikely of places.  If you watch the tides of the Northum...

Edward Thomas On the first day of the battle of Arras, April 9, 1917, Edward Thomas was killed by an artillery shell. He had arrived in Fran...