Men went over the top and into gunfire—20,000 died on day one. The Somme wasn’t a battle, it was a machine that swallowed a ...

Deputy Lord Mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Councillor Jessica Johnston, together with fellow elected members, ...

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Somme, one of World War One's bloodiest, was fought in northern France and lasted five months, with the British suffering almost 60,000 casualties on the first day alone.

A rare collection of ceramics by renowned Hanley-born artist Arthur Holland - who hand-painted the 'Coronation Vase' ...

Homework' is an account of Geoff Dyer’s upbringing in Cheltenham in the 1960s and ‘70s, a world he evokes in gloriously ...

INTERACTIVE: Over the top! Scrub back and forth below to see the battle unfold hour-by-hour. Battle of the Somme 1916. A German soldier about to hurl a hand grenade from a trench (Getty Images).

“Participating in the commemoration services allowed us to reflect on the courage and resilience of those who fought in the Battle of the Somme. We are committed to preserving their memory for ...

On Tuesday, July 1 many people paid there respects to those brave men from the island of Ireland who had made the ultimate ...

Object Details artist Unknown Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 2 Catalogue of Paintings in Wadsworth Gallery, Hartford. Admittance for one person, 25 cents. Children under 14 Years of ...

Steven Trout, The Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010), 2, 6; David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War ...

Politicians and the public are convinced that spending more money on weaponry automatically raises an army’s effectiveness on the battlefield ...