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The West is falling into Putin's trap
His master strategy is to give Nato problems and to deflect its main effort from supporting Ukraine
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The untold story of Lanoe Hawker VC, Britain’s first ace fighter pilot
A new film tells of the real-life heroism of a First World War pioneer who inspired his peers and left a legacy of innovation
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How Germans sank their own U-boat so ‘no Englishman’ would set foot on it
3D mapping finds evidence submarine was scuttled ‘in act of defiance’ off Heligoland after First World War
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The savage drama of the First World War, retold for children
Michael Foreman’s novella The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha, rightly republished, tells of the (real-life) bond between a seaman and a tortoise
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Sir Frank Sanderson, businessman behind Battle of the Somme museum at Lutyens’s Memorial for the Missing – obituary
A museum at the hallowed site was controversial, but he raised £700,000 from over 2,300 donors, many of them pensioners who sent in £5 notes
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At this rate, wearing a Remembrance poppy will soon be a thing of the past
If two thirds of British adults under 40 don’t even know the date of the Armistice, this solemn tradition is surely doomed
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Rupert Brooke was a foolish and naïve idealist. So why does his poetry survive?
Remembrance Sunday brings to mind the poet’s war sonnets, the beauty of which outshines their dated sentiments
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Two thirds of young people don’t know what Remembrance Day commemorates
Results of survey labelled ‘damning indictment of history teaching in our schools’ by historian and Tory peer
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We will remember them
This weekend is our moment as a nation to put aside politics commemorate those who died to protect our lives and our freedoms
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If young people were taught history properly, they wouldn’t protest on Armistice Day
The timing of their march confirms a historical ignorance we have allowed to thrive – and should do everything in our power to redress
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Harrowing First World War battle footage brought back to life – warts and all
Even camera shakes kept in the Imperial War Museum's restoration of the Battle of Arras film from 1917 to preserve its authenticity
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The island where you’d eat 36 eggs and 18 seabirds per day
How the inhabitants of remote Hebridean St Kilda lived off the land – and, braving incredible danger, the cliffs
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This ‘enfant terrible’ was too radical for Elgar – now he’s ripe for revival
Haunted by memories of the trenches, Arthur Bliss injected English pastoral music with a highly expressive strain of modernism
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Minefield rescue inspired by my great-great-grandfather
Jack Knight, a British military volunteer and former mine clearer, rescued Ukrainian soldiers at risk of bleeding out from the battlefield
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‘It’s the most moving experience you’ll ever have on foreign shores’
As the First World War sites of France and Belgium finally earn World Heritage Site status, here are 10 battlefields and memorials to visit
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Love and hope ‘help you grow taller’
Average height falls in harder times but increases again with prosperity and joy, a study suggests
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Putin is developing a sinister new plan for victory
Moscow’s dealings with North Korea suggest an attempt to repeat a version of the 1918 Kaiserschlacht
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The era of the tank is far from over
Like all military capability, it is about how you use it. The Russians are doing so extremely poorly
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When was Britain’s biggest cultural revolution? (It’s not when you think)
The interwar period is often thought of as uninspired, but in reality, it brought about extraordinary change to which we are still in thrall
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Siegfried Sassoon's cricket club goes into battle against developers
Villlagers in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, angry at potential sale of their team's ground on First World War poet's family estate
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‘They helped win the war’: the surprisingly mainstream history of drag
The art form is now facing heated opposition from the socially conservative – but this wasn’t always the case
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A bayonet to the heart: the true history of Blackadder’s devastating final episode
The silly BBC comedy went over the top with one of the most powerful scenes ever shown on British TV. Yet it almost ended in disaster
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Chinese-American author says sensitivity readers used disingenuously to prevent criticism
Rebecca Kuang, whose novel ‘Yellowface’ is a satire of the publishing industry, said sensitivity readers are used to avoid ‘online scandal’
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Could this hidden gem in Orkney be Museum of the Year?
The recently rebuilt Scapa Flow Museum, which charts the area’s pivotal role in naval history, could be on course for a surprise victory
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Now woke Canada insults the war dead of Vimy Ridge
Trudeau cannot imagine there are any Canadian stories bigger than him
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Prince of Wales lays wreath during dawn service for Anzac Day
William left a personal message on the poppies as he remembered Australia and New Zealand’s war dead at Wellington Arch in London
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‘Year books’ may be trendy – but they’re dumbing down history
Volumes named after and focusing on a single year are increasingly popular – the trouble is, history just doesn't work like that
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How the Great War prevented a brilliant British talent from finding worldwide fame
Patrick Hadley composed music of darkness and profound beauty, leaving behind an underappreciated canon. Why is he not better known?
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The First World War tactic helping Ukraine fight a modern conflict
Trench warfare is synonymous with the front lines of the Great War, but today they offer a vital defence against Russia’s troops
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Row over plans to turn Belgian WW1 memorial church into restaurant and climbing wall
Locals in Liège said the conversion of the 1930s basilica, part-funded by British veterans, was ‘tasteless’ and ‘shameful’
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From the classroom to the trenches, a gay love story for the ages
Alice Winn's heartrending debut novel In Memoriam, set during the First World War, brings history wrenchingly to life
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Welby is wrong to draw comparisons with Weimar Germany
History rarely provides simple answers, and the Archbishop betrays a simplistic grasp of the First World War and its aftermath
