100 years after Mata Hari’s execution for spying, experts reassess her notoriety at an international symposium taking place at City, University of London on October 28.
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‘Away from the Western Front’ seeks musical recruits for new WW1 song
A newly-composed song, reflecting the bitterness felt by West Indian troops at the end of the Great War, is being added to the familiar repertoire, with an invitation to perform it.
Continue reading100 Years Ago: The Balfour Declaration
Britain pledged its support for the establishment of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in Palestine, in a letter written by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour on 2 November 1917.
Continue reading100 Years Ago: Bolsheviks seize power in the Russian Revolution
On the Centenary of the Bolshevik coup, Patrick Gregory looks back at the turmoil which propelled Lenin's revolutionaries to power in Russia during the First World War.
Continue reading100 Years Ago: Bolsheviks seize power in the Russian Revolution
On the Centenary of the Bolshevik coup, Patrick Gregory looks back at the turmoil which propelled Lenin’s revolutionaries to power in Russia during the First World War.
Continue reading100 Years Ago: Battle of Passchendaele ends
Canadian troops completed the capture of Passchendaele on 10 November 1917, ending the Allied offensive in Flanders known also as the Third Battle of Ypres.
Continue readingScotland honours pioneering WW1 doctor Elsie Inglis
Tributes are being paid to the doctor who defied disapproval to set up hospitals, staffed by women, to treat wounded soldiers in France and the Balkans.
Continue reading100 Years Ago: The Halifax Explosion
A ship loaded with high explosives blew up following a collision in the Canadian port of Halifax on 6 December 1917, killing 2,000 people and leaving thousands more homeless.
Continue readingFocus on Armistice Centenary – Mons 2018
Two days of commemorations are planned in Mons on November 10 & 11 to mark the centenary of the Belgian city’s liberation at the very end of the First World War.
Continue reading100 Years Ago: First UK women given the vote
Campaigners for women’s suffrage in Britain achieved a victory during the First World War, with some women winning the right to vote in 1918.
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