Marking the return of Radio 4’s wartime drama Home Front, we get an opportunity to explore the facts and myths of WW1 conscription ... a badge of pride that the UK army had up until this ...

An estimated 12 million civilians died, while more than 9 million soldiers were killed in WW1 across the world Despite the resistance against conscription, 1.1 million people were enlisted in the ...

Debates about conscription have also been taking place in other European countries that currently don’t require it. In the UK ...

It's augmenting the professional army." Asked whether he thought it would make a difference if the UK started conscription, the foreign minister said: "I think it would make a difference if any ...

A new exhibition at Richmond Castle will shed fresh light on the lives of men who refused to fight in World War One. The castle ... as well as an original conscription poster, personal postcards ...