Seven Australian composers feature in an epic communal piece of music honouring the Australians who died on the Western Front. It will have its premiere in Canberra, this Saturday.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on World War I
Displaying 141 - 160 of 328 articles
Canadians’ indifference to their military isn’t so surprising. Almost every military conflict has raised serious questions, and spurred divisive debate, about Canadian unity and independence.
Nazi, fascist, ultra right-wing - these terms seem to be bandied about a lot these days. But what do they really mean?
One hundred years after its capture from the battle fields of France, the last German battle tank of its kind is giving up its secrets to archeologists and forensic analysis.
Healthcare in the interwar period in the UK was surprisingly good.
Many thousands of Germans got through internment by performing farces, dressing up as women and clapping along to the can-can.
Brumbies have a devoted following among high country locals, despite the fact that they were despised by colonial settler farmers. Their mythical status today owes a lot to cultural figures such as Banjo Paterson.
Where to draw the line between loyalty to the nation and the struggle for equal rights? A scholar sees parallels between NFL protests and a call for African-Americans to ‘close ranks’ during WWI.
The British government is trying to unblock £400m donated in 1927 by an anonymous donor who wanted it to help pay off the national war debt.
The lovers’ diaries show how David Pinsent supported Ludwig Wittgenstein through his depression.
Lucy Maud Montgomery has shaped Canadian memories not only with ‘Anne of Green Gables,’ but also with the eighth of her series, ‘Rilla of Ingleside,’ which provides glimpses of the First World War.
Wrecks like the recently discovered USS Juneau reveal much about combat on the oceans.
R.C. Sherriff’s classic play focused on the officer class, but the recent film adaptation has given working-class soldiers a voice.
The Great War uses scale models to give a worm’s eye view of titanic violence. In Kings of War, by contrast, lethal events are viewed from the unsteady perspective of leaders.
CC BY-ND17.9 MB (download)
The audio version of a long read on the daring mathematicians who took to the skies to help make early air travel safer.
With many men ‘missing’ from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn’t previously been open to them.
A clock designed to work for 10 millennia is being built – but what is the point of it?
Sometimes diplomacy won the day, sometimes it didn’t.
As tens of thousands of injured soldiers filled the UK’s overwhelmed hospitals, the scale of World War I became all too apparent.
Don’t believe these 10 common myths about the 1918 Spanish flu.
Top contributors
-
Professor, University of Leeds
-
Principal Lecturer in History, Manchester Metropolitan University
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
-
Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
-
Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
-
Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
-
Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
-
Assistant Professor, Design History and Theory, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
-
Director, Australian National Dictionary Centre, Australian National University
-
Research Professor in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
-
Professor of Twentieth Century History, Goldsmiths, University of London
-
Professor in Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London
-
Senior Lecturer in English, The Open University
-
Reader in Modern History, Brunel University London
