Michael Korda writes a beautiful book in remembrance of the World War I poets whose work he loved. We hope you’re enjoying ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Situating First World War poetry in a truly global context, this book reaches beyond the British soldier-poet canon. A History of World War ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

In the first few weeks of the First World War, the British Army requisitioned more than 120,000 horses to serve across the Channel. In four years of conflict, some eight million horses, donkeys and ...

Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War. They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by ...

Kate Middleton symbolically wore three red poppy pins to Remembrance Sunday on Nov. 10 at The Cenotaph. Inside her reason for ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

The hymn, which takes an 1803 poem by William Blake and sets it to ... Hastings Parry wrote the hymn in 1916 at the height of World War One. The song was commissioned by his friend, poet laureate ...

One of the Canadians killed in action early in the First World War inspired Lt.-Col. John McCrae – a Canadian doctor and ...

His famous poem The Soldier said ... Finished 20 years before World War One, Tower Bridge is one of London’s iconic landmarks and is as much of an attraction for people today as it was over ...

My Story World War One Centenary special takes a mother and ... assemblies will include ideas for students to participate in poetry, music and prose performances. BBC Learning will be providing ...

It moved to October after World War I so it wouldn’t compete ... but you can read the full poem here. Langston Hughes is one of the most important American poets of the 20th century, and while ...