Behind Their Lines

Father and son, Royal Engineers Image from @QMGS191418 Many poems of the First World War recount a soldier’s ima...

  “Of all the poets who have died young, none has died so happily,” said William Archer, describing Alan Seeger in the “Introduction” to...

Thiepval, Dead German Soldier, by Ernest Brooks © IWM Q 1284 Bertram Lloyd was a member of the Humanitarian League* and a conscientious...

Raised in Cambridge until she was 16, Margaret Postgate recalls the loveliness of spring in the university town: “you cannot be brought up ...

Red Cross, St. Louis October 1918 (National Archives) In September of 1918, a physician wrote from Camp Devens, Massachusetts, “It is o...

Parade to War, Allegory by John Steuart Curry, 1938 Few have heard of Lola Ridge, the modernist poet who has been compared to Emily Dic...

Poster © IWM Art.IWM PST 12052 On the night of January 19, 1915, the first German zeppelin attacks in England targeted cities and towns...