Another gripping historical fiction masterpiece from international bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood.

The beautiful city of Reims is located in the Champagne region of France. It is known for its rich history, beautiful architecture, and, of course, its world-renowned champagne. Whether you're a history buff, a foodie,

The BBC has produced a radio drama based on the real-life love letters a couple exchanged during World War I. Eric Appleby, an engineering student from

The incredible images include one of gunners pushing a truck filled with shells in 1917 and a British soldier helping a wounded German prisoner walk along a railway track in 1916 (pictured).

The warrior-poets were among the most significant chroniclers of World War I. “If I should die, think only this of me;/ That there’s some corner of a...

Not everything that history, as an academic discipline, has discovered is to be found in history books. Often, we only get to learn and read about what

Between 1914 and 1918, the globe was engaged in a war of a fierceness and scale never viewed earlier, with individuals from each continent tuning in the battling. The war […]

Arthur Maxted kept the posters in the attic of his home in Kent after he inherited them from his grandfather, who worked for a printing company during the war.

One year from today is the 100th anniversary of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo, the event widely considered to be the trigger that started World War I. Here are 99 things you need to know about Franz Ferdinand the man (not the band), the political climate in Europe and the Balkans leading up to 1914 and the tick-tock of events that occurred on June 28, 1914 that led to his death.

Captain Georg von Trapp, leader of the world famous von Trapp family singers made famous by the Sound Of Music , was, in fact, an Austrian naval hero during World War I.

In 1939, the Nazi German forces began their occupation of Poland. By 1944, the Russians were advancing from the East and the Allies from the West. The Polish Ho

Know Dragoon Guard Ernest Edward Thomas, the British soldier who fired the first shot during the Great War, the conflict between Britain and Germany. It

“As their lives ebbed away, #FranzFerdinand urged Sophie to cling to life for the sake of their children. #WW1”

Nearly a dozen notebooks and journals by the author, who fought in the British Army during the war, are being released to coincide with the centenary of the start of the conflict.

How to visit Ypres and the World War I battlefields in Belgium. Suggested day trip itinerary including Tyne Cot, Essex Farm war cemetery, trenches, Yser Tower and more. Find out!

Captain Claud Insole was a volunteer ambulance driver who later joined the fighting

The St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel opens on Thursday 5th May 2011 following its restoration 76 years after it was closed.

During World War I, hundreds of young women went to work in clock factories, painting watch dials with luminous radium paint. But after the girls — who literally glowed in the dark after their shifts — began to experience gruesome side effects, they began a race-against-time fight for justice that would forever change US labor laws.

Fort Eben Emael, near Liege, was the largest and strongest fort in the world, in 1940. Even so, it surrendered a day after Germany invaded Belgium. We visited to learn why.

When maimed soldiers returned from the Western Front, sculptors worked to allow them to "be able to appear in public unnoticed" by re-creating their countenances.

The key leaders involved in the outbreak of war.

Most American students learn that World War I featured Brits and Germans shooting at each other from trenches for four years until America showed up to save the day. Even in countries that were major combatants, like Britain and France, teaching is limited to the trenches of the Western front and a key national battle like the Somme or Verdun. It’s not hard to see why. World War I is over a century old now, and it’s overshadowed by its larger budget, more morally black and white sequel. It’s easy to forget that it truly was a world war—battles were

1. This must be the place Maydelle, Texas – interesting little backstory on this place here. 2. Hemingway and Dalì's Venetian Vacation Home A corner of Holland in the Venetian Lagoon, the Casone di Valle Zappa was built between 1923 and 1928 in a thriving fishing, bird watching

Arthur Maxted, 72, has had the collection of posters in his attic for the last 30 years - and it is only recently that he realised they were of wider interest.

The original root language of "ghetto" is unknown. But its original meaning has long been clear. By the 17th century, Rome and Venice had segregated Jewish residents into ghettos.

World War I was a mass global conflict involving the major empires of the world in the early 20th century. What began with the Age of Exploration resulted in the rise of an internationally dominan…

Some of the worst battles in history.

New book by a Newcastle historian examines how the people and industry of the North East helped secure victory in World War I

Around 80,000 British, Indian and Australian troops based in Singapore became Prisoners of War after the fall of Singapore, perhaps Britain's greatest military defeat since the 1781 Battle of Yorktown.

Improve your homeschooling history lessons on World War II with these free printable worksheets, vocabulary lists, crosswords, and coloring pages.

When the War Office discovered Rex was originally a stray, he faced the same tragic fate as all heroic war dogs with no owner

Second Lieutenant Walter Tull was brought up in an East London orphanage but went on to be commissioned as first black officer in the British Army.

Erik Larson’s The Splendid and The Vile, which recounts life in London during the WWII German bombing campaign of 1940 and ’41, and Winston Churchill’s handling of the Battle of B…

This is a thing. I'm totally down with loving history, but these artists take the concept to a whole new level.

It was life and death for soldiers in the trenches of World War One (1914–1918).

The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 205th installment in the series.

Dorothy Lawrence, disguised herself as a Tommy and joined the ranks of 179 Tunnelling Company, 51st Division, Royal Engineers, as they dug beneath no-man's-land and across to German lines.

The immediate trigger that led to the start of the Great War (or First World War as it was subsequently known) was, relatively, innocuous enough - another assassination in the volatile Balkans. However what followed quickly resolved itself into a direct causal sequence of mobilisations & declarations of war by all the major European countries in turn - like a line of toppling dominoes.

Compared with what was to follow, the weeks leading up to the bloodiest battle in British history were a gentle calm before the storm, as these astonishing 100-year-old photographs show.