The BBC’s World War One Centenary season is unlike any other season the BBC has undertaken, not least because of its scale. With programming and events spanning the four years from 2014-2018 ...

A two-minute silence is held annually on Armistice Day, which marks the end of World War One in 1918. People also wear pins shaped like poppies, the symbol of remembrance, to pay tribute to fallen ...

After the start of World War One the “Commission for Relief of Belgium” (CRB) was established with Herbert Hoover, a wealthy industrialist living in London at the time, as Chairman. Herbert Hoover, ...

World War One: the war at sea During World War One, the sea became a new battleground. Find out about the biggest naval clash of the war - the Battle of Jutland, 1916.