This Sunday — Nov. 11, 2018 — marks one hundred years since the signing of the armistice agreement that ended fighting in the First World War. World leaders will host events in Britain ...

They were officially known as “enemy aliens”. At the outbreak of war, Germans living in Britain – aristocrats, waiters and bakers among them – found themselves in sudden peril. Many had ...

The war came to South America when, near its end, Spain joined the French side and attacked one of the American colonies of Britain’s ally, Portugal. Like the first world war, this global ...

Soldiers from across the Commonwealth fought for Britain in the First World War – from the Caribbean and Australia to Canada and South Africa. Over a million soldiers from pre-partition India ...

(Eliot Blondet/Pool photo via AP) The First World War ended 100 ... deep-seated animosity that produced World War II. Unfortunately, the Entente — Britain, France and Russia — dismissed ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The two decades before the first world war were among the most creative, turbulent and dangerous in Britain ...