Why the Indian soldiers of WW1 were forgotten Arsala Khan went on ... wrote something perhaps even more extraordinary: Captain Amar Singh penned what is possibly the world's longest diary.

One vessel was the enormous Olympic – sister ship of the Titanic. Olympic became a troop ship during WW1 and was repainted in dazzle. She shows some of the techniques used by dazzle designers.

WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths attributed to the use of the machine-gun in WW1, did its awesome threat actually ...

They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster? documentWW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster? The first day on ...

Thanks for that. Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's? WW1: Why was the first day of ...

Diljit Dosanjh and Parineeti Chopra are gearing up for the release of their upcoming film, Amar Singh Chamkila. The film is a biopic on the life of the Punjabi singer Amar Singh Chamkila.

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916, the ...

The ceremony was created to honour Private Buckam Singh, who was one of nine Sikh soldiers allowed to serve in the Canadian army during the First World War. His grave is the only known grave for a ...

WW1: Can the Treaty of Versailles help us tackle climate change? documentWW1: Can the Treaty of Versailles help us tackle climate change? BBC correspondent David Shukman asks whether the legacy of ...

There are still some who say that attitudes toward it have a way to go until it completely catches up with the men’s game, but, partly thanks to those munitions factory workers during WW1 ...

A wreck discovered off the Aberdeenshire coast is believed to be a lost Royal Navy warship sunk by a torpedo during World War One. HMS Hawke was discovered by a team of divers about 70 miles east ...

The “WW1 Sikh Memorial” was dedicated in 2015 by Major General Patrick Sanders CBE DSO, Bhai Sahib Dr Mohinder Singh Ahluwalia and business tycoon Peter Singh Virdee at a ceremony which fused ...