Behind Their Lines

For a long time, people have hand-copied poems that they love. The scribing of a poem slows our reading of it; writing out a poem makes us p...

Edward Brittain, Roland Leighton, and Victor Richardson  via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/...

Christmas is supposed to be a season of comfort and joy, but many people struggle through the holidays, especially those who have lost s...

"Summer & trenches don't go together somehow," Roland Leighton wrote to his sweetheart, Vera Brittain in April 1915.  ...