First World War

Hertha Ayrton’s experiment in a bathtub may have saved lives in the trenches, but it caused ripples among the ranks of the Royal Society.

In the early 20th century the prison population in England and Wales was in sharp decline, despite a rise in crime. 

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945 by N.A.M. Rodger looks above decks for the story of the modern Royal Navy.

Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War by Perry Anderson relitigates the causes of the conflict through some of their key proponents. 

An attempt to prosecute German war criminals in 1921 failed to such an extent that the entire enterprise is largely forgotten. What went wrong?

‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That the history of war is the same as military history.’

Unconventional and provocative, did the Dada artist sometimes known as Arthur Cravan save his boldest work for last?

The First World War revealed the bad state of Britain’s teeth. Intervention was required to keep the nation biting fit.

Surrealism – as formulated in André Breton’s manifesto a century ago in October 1924 – is regarded as one of the First World War’s artistic legacies. What are the others?