Real First World War

Commemorating the First World War via centenary coverage, anniversaries & access to our expert authors. No longer updated. Created by @TheHistoryPress

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A blend of story and #folklore with a nature narrative. 'Stories of the Sun' by Dawn Nelson is out now! Order here 📒: https://t.co/Hw3r4n55Fc ☀️

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“This meticulously researched and well-written book offers a glimpse into the problems faced by our ancestors as they returned home from war.” - Mark Simner, @wdytyamagazine on Adam Powell's 'Soldiering On': https://t.co/byA8f8XIL0 #WW1 #POW #Veterans #mentalhealth

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#OTD1916 Pell-Mell, the new Charles B Cochran revue, opens a week late at the Ambassadors theatre as scenery and costume deliveries were delayed due to so many employees joining the Army. Coincidentally, in one sketch star-turn Alice Delysia donned khaki too.

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#OTD1915 1,200 die when RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German torpedo off the Irish coast, among them American theatre impresario Charles Frohman who brought Broadway shows to London’s West End and premiered JM Barrie’s Peter Pan at the Duke of York’s.
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April 1916: Shakespeare Centenary year productions enlist Shakespeare for the war effort, but his words were khaki-clad almost from day one of war, especially for recruiting campaigns.
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The siege of Kut-al-Amara ended in surrender #OTD in 1916: https://t.co/t4yiuKmGyL #WW1

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Books of My Childhood: Graham Maddocks was a teacher at my school. Though he didn’t teach me, he led my class trip to the Western Front, the first of many. His interests influenced us all (a thread) @TheHistoryPress

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In 2020 a virus shuts UK theatres. In 1918 the Spanish flu returns. Deaths average 2,000 a week. Few theatres close - people are collapsing on stage and off. But after 4 years of mass slaughter on the Western Front, for theatre professionals mortality has become part of life.

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Demonstration of hay box cookery at Food Saving Exhibition which opened at the Institute of Hygiene #OTD 1918. Read more about hay box cooking & other #WW1 food saving measures in my book 'Great War Britain' from @TheHistoryPress Pic (c) Grenville Collins Postcard Coll/Mary Evans

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early 1917: Harry Lauder says he wants to "sing for the boys on the frontlines who are in the thick of the struggle with the Hun.” So with War Office support he tours the war-ravaged countryside, often performing accompanied by live shell-fire.
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Christmas 1914 was by far the strangest #Christmas everyone who lived through it had ever known... https://t.co/zMWY8F8upn #WW1 #RealFWW

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The Battle of #Verdun - #Germany's attempt to 'bleed #France white' - ended with nearly a million casualties and a French victory #OTD 1916 https://t.co/xcjMuaO9b5 #WW1 #military

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Self-proclaimed holy man Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family #OTD 1916 https://t.co/awN7UuuvD1 #Russia #WW1

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Dec 1918: Spanish flu is still sweeping Britain, but business is brisk at Manchester Theatre Royal's first peacetime panto Cinderella, with Cecily Courtneidge making her panto debut in the title role and Little Tich's Buttons getting big laughs.
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Hobnails, drill and boot camp: secrets of Sam Mendes’s war epic 1917 https://t.co/N5QqjXh6Tn (via @ObserverUK) #military #WW1

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#Jerusalem surrendered to British troops #OTD 1917 https://t.co/7lNZZAKOeY #WW1 #military

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British nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed for helping soldiers escape German-occupied #Belgium during #WW1, was born in #Norfolk #OTD 1865 https://t.co/bprWCIzFIr #womeninhistory

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The first released British prisoners of war reached #Calais #OTD 1918 https://t.co/Vcs2zTkpbe #WW1

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The Third Battle of #Gaza came to an end #OTD 1917 when British forces captured Gaza from the #OttomanEmpire https://t.co/W2iYAkFGOH #WW1 #military

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#Britain annexed #Cyprus and declared war on the #OttomanEmpire 105 years ago, #OTD 1914 https://t.co/XzIGBhix3J #WW1 #military