New free iPhone App brings World War One to life
In the centenary of the start of WW1 a new iPhone app has been released to help bring WW1 to life. War 14-18 introduces and explains some of the many WW1 locations in Northern France. It […]
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Louvre-Lens Museum: It’s the Louvre, but not as you know it. Or where you know it.
You can probably work out what and where the Louvre-Lens museum is from its name, so I won’t bother adding that it is an outpost of the Louvre in a town called Lens. This museum […]
WW1: Visit the Wellington Quarry where 24,000 soldiers lived underground before the Battle of Arras
‘They are young, far too young’, French journalist Jules Mathon on the British soldiers at the Battle of Arras. If you think the London Underground can be a claustrophobic squeeze, imagine being one of 24,000 soldiers crammed […]
Experience WW1 poet Wilfred Owen’s last hours – without getting pointlessly blown up for Britain
If you don’t know what happened to war poet Wilfred Owen then the title you’ve already read contained a spoiler. Poets are often regarded as effete chaps who spend their days weeping about the futility of life, […]