It’s Armistice and Remembrance day today, something which has had a particularly raised profile this year because 2014 marks the centenary of the start of the First World War. We went to London yesterday to see the spectacular and moving exhibition of poppies at the Tower of London “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red”,(...)

Nothing is more British than the British weather, especially the rain so it is not surprise that we can thank this nation for inventing the trench coat.

It was the bloodiest battle in our history. Yet it’s taken 100 years to get an insight as vivid as this – from a brilliant new book and astonishing photographs taken by soldiers’ illicit cameras.

Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) 1918 – 1920 During the First World War, members of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps …