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Engineering pioneer Ricardo joins exodus from London stock market with £281m sale

The company was formed as Engine Patents Limited by Sir Harry Ricardo during the First World War in February 1915.

Evening Standard

26 Of The Most Interesting Examples Of The “Butterfly Effect” Happening In History

Check out these historical butterfly effects, from who caused the First World War to theories about what caused the fall of the Berlin Wall, Brexit, the rise of Lego, and beyond.

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Statues of JRR Tolkien and his wife to be unveiled in East Yorkshire

The wooden statues commemorate the author’s time in the area while recuperating after the first world war and a moment that inspired a tale of star-crossed love in Middle-earth

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Greater Sins by Gabrielle Griffiths review – a dark discovery upturns a Scottish village

The unearthing of a woman’s body in a peat bog during the first world war is the catalyst for a gritty tale of secrets, guilt and desire

The Guardian - UK

Education for peace: the effort to teach children how to rebuild societies after WWII

While the first world war and the Spanish civil war had already drawn children in Europe and beyond into the orbit of conflict, the second world war marked a pivotal period in how young people have experienced the horrors of war.

The Conversation

Flu vaccines have prevented millions of deaths – our research proves it

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused around 50 million deaths, and its impact was so severe that global life expectancy fell dramatically. It claimed more lives than the First World War.

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Contaminated French soil yet to recover from the wounds of war

More than a century after the First World War, vast stretches of French soil remain contaminated, with some areas still too hazardous to access. Experts warn it could take 700 years to clear hidden munitions – the legacy of a conflict that wrought unprecedented destruction on the land.

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Starmer marks Armistice Day at Paris ceremony with Macron

The Prime Minister said he was honoured to pay tribute to the fallen of the First World War alongside the French president.

Evening Standard

Starmer in Paris for Armistice Day commemoration

While Sir Keir Starmer is in France, events will be held in the UK to mark the guns falling silent at the end of the First World War.

Evening Standard

Remembrance Day returns to its traditional ground at Australian War Memorial

It's the 106th anniversary of the ending of the First World War.

The Canberra Times

Making friends with the enemy: what stories of soldiers’ unexpected battlefield meetings reveal about the trauma of war

James Brady, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the first world war, struggled to narrate the moment he was taken captive by German soldiers while serving on the western front. In the draft of his memoir, he crossed out and rewrote this section repeatedly.

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Country Diary: All of life takes place in a rural village hall

Inkpen, West Berkshire: The ‘old girl’ is 100 years old – as are many others built around Britain after the first world war. We give it the celebration it deserves

The Guardian - UK

Australia treats its armed forces veterans with a perversely shabby contempt

If you are going to define the birth of a nation by imperial adventures abroad then you must honour and respect those who return damaged

The Guardian - AU

Exhibition highlights BAME soldiers experience in First World War

AN EXHIBITION set to open during Black History Month will reflect on the experience of soldiers from across the Commonwealth in the First World War.

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A Soldier’s Journey: new first world war memorial in Washington revitalises classic image of the ‘American doughboy’

America’s inaugural national memorial marking the first world war was unveiled this month in Washington DC, on the birthday of war commander General John J. Pershing – 106 years after the end of the war. We don’t often get to see a new memorial to a century-old war, especially one…

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Robert Harris’s Precipice, reviewed: it’s an injustice this great novelist hasn’t won more literary prizes

During the dawn of the First World War, HH Asquith sent more than 700 letters to an aristocratic young woman almost half his age – but did the Liberal PM actually have an affair with Venetia Stanley? The story forms the basis of one of the most enthralling novels yet…

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Circuits to have hosted the F1 British Grand Prix since its debut

The British GP has become synonymous with its now permanent home of Silverstone circuit, which is widely regarded as one of the best tracks in the world.Silverstone, which lies in Northamptonshire, also hosted F1’s inaugural race in 1950 but it has not been the venue for every British GP since.In…

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Weatherwatch: The forgotten sinking of the Empress of Ireland

Months before the first world war, the ocean liner sank in the St Lawrence River after a collision in thick fog

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Bella Reay was a war-time football heroine with a ratio of 4.33 goals per game who could’ve inspired millions had politics not got in the way

With swathes of men conscripted during the First World War Women’s football underwent an unexpected boom, but sadly this success story turned into a tragic missed opportunity

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Wor Bella: forgotten story of women who combined war work with football

Hundreds of Munitionette teams played in Britain during the first world war – and their story is being told on stage

The Guardian - UK

Little Englanders by Alwyn Turner review – portrait of a poignant interlude in British history

An ‘empty patch’ in the national story, the Edwardian era – between the death of Queen Victoria and the start of the first world war – has many parallels with today

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A skirt served my grandfather well in the first world war

Brief letters: Men in skirts | Government priorities | The misery of January | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Give pants a chance

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Ishion Hutchinson: ‘I can hear a poem before it arrives’

The Jamaican poet on his new collection about West Indian soldiers in the first world war, diving into the messiness of language, and the book he rereads every autumn

The Independent UK

King Charles leads moving Remembrance Day service at Cenotaph as nation honours war dead

A two-minute silence took place across the UK at 11am to commemorate the end of the First World War and other conflicts involving British and Commonwealth forces

The Guardian - AU

‘He is one of us’: 30 years on, Paul Keating’s eulogy to the unknown Australian soldier endures

Saturday marks three decades since the then prime minister brought the grief of European battlegrounds home, paying homage to one of the 20,000 Australians who died in the first world war yet remain unidentified

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