EPISODE 10: PROFESSOR MARK CONNELLY shows how memory and remembrance have played a key role in the way later generations have interpreted the First Wo...

EPISODE 9: Most general histories of the First World War are narrative-driven or told from a national perspective. PROFESSOR WILLIAM PHILPOTT analyses...

EPISODE 8: We think of the First World War as 1914-18 but, as PROFESSOR ROBERT GERWARTH shows, 1918 did not end the war in much of Europe and beyond, ...

EPISODE 7: In the popular British narrative, 1918 is the ‘forgotten year’ of the First World War. PETER HART explains how, in fact, it was vital to tu...

EPISODE 6: 1.5 million Indians volunteered to fight for Britain during the First World War. As GEORGE MORTON JACK reveals, their story has too often b...

EPISODE 5: Shell shock was unknown before the First World War. TAYLOR DOWNING shows how it reached crisis levels at the battle of the Somme, drawing a...

EPISODE 4: Before 1914 international rules were established to govern the conduct of warfare. DIANA PRESTON explains how all sides in the First World ...

EPISODE 3: Trans-national and comparative history has deepened our understanding of the First World War. DR JONATHAN BOFF looks at the Western Front f...

EPISODE 2: The popular British narrative depicts the war on the Western Front as wasteful and futile. PROFESSOR GARY SHEFFIELD shows such a view is mi...

EPISODE 1: The popular British view of the First World War is now very outdated. PROFESSOR HEATHER JONES explains how professional historians have tra...