Today, November 11, 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of The First World War.
The First World War–also known as World War I and the Great War–was a global war that originated in Europe and lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
It’s estimated that nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a direct result of the war.
Source: The National Archives
Please take a little time today to pause and reflect.
The Great War Project
If you like to learn more about about WWI history, I would also highly recommend following The Great War Project blog.
The Great War Project follows WWI as it unfolded and reads like a daily dispatch. Its archives are deep–follow the timeline through the dated links in the right sidebar. The Great War Project has a number of contributors and is hosted by journalist and blogger, Mike Shuster.
Click here to read through our WWI archives on the SWLing Post.
Radio Times, the BBC magazine of Radio and TV
lists many items at:
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-11-09/remembrance-day-2018-tv-and-radio-coverage-first-world-war-centenary-bbc-listings/
They Shall Not Grow Old 9.30pm BBC2
Peter Jackson’s ground-breakng WWI film using colourised archival footage converted to 3D. Read more about the film here.
And you may enjoy the WWI vignettes at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nb93y
Ironic really.
Two world wars fighting for freedom, and then we get censorship here too.
Oh dear, an opinion that differs.
You should be ashamed,
BBC has a boatload of podcasts about WWI that can be downloaded here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sx794/episodes/downloads
Thanks for sharing this, Tom!