Trenches became valuable to WW1 armies because they were a defensive ... Soldiers couldn’t peek their heads above the trenches because of the snipers’ bullets. Artillery could be fired ...

BBC's crime drama Peaky Blinders paints a harrowing picture of life in 1920s Birmingham, where people, especially young men, were dealing with the aftermath of World War 1, which changed their lives ...

Life in the quarries was vastly preferable to the muddy hell of the trenches above. A journalist visiting one of the caverns in 1915 noted that “a dry shelter, straw, some furniture, a fire ...

These clips are taken from the original BBC series, WW1 A-Z and are suitable for teaching Key Stage 2 and above in England ... what soldiers in the WW1 trenches were given to eat.

War has been raging in Europe for over two years with no end in sight. The line along the Western Front had barely altered despite the best efforts of the British Expeditionary Force and the French ...

It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a soldier stationed in the trenches during World War I. One century on ...