A new display of ceramic poppies has opened at the Tower of London to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The installation, which opened on 6 May, uses some 30,000 poppies from a similar…
In this image, St Paul’s Cathedral is dramatically illuminated on the night of VE Day, 8 May 1945, which marked the end of the Second World War in Europe. Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece in central London had survived the war…
A groundbreaking new exhibition draws on collections around the world to tell the complex and emotionally charged story of the cemeteries of World War I, as Nicholas Saunders reports.
A two-year restoration project on one of the most recognisable memorials of the First World War has begun. The Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, is dedicated to British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed during fighting in the nearby battlefields…
One of the most tragic consequences of the First World War was the idea and the reality of ‘the missing’. All earlier wars had victims of which no trace was ever found, but the world’s first global industrialised conflict created…
MHM's Calum Henderson reviews the best military history exhibitions. This month, he explores The National Memorial Arboretum.
Christmas at the front was about making do. Here, for instance, British soldiers have gathered in a shell hole around a makeshift table. Some are sitting on the ground, others on what appears to be rolled-up sheets of wire.