As the Great War approached, there was in Britain's salons and schools a kind of intoxication. Young men--poets, clerks, sons ...
Images from the First World War battlefields, and the women serving back on the 'home front', have been lovingly restored in ...
Today (11 November) marks Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, which means a chance to stop and think about those ...
The painstakingly restored photos, from the archive of the Daily Mail, feature in a new book alongside the hugely moving words of some of Britain's greatest First World War poets.
Ancient Greek athletes fought in brutal contests of the ancient Olympics, where sacred honor and civic pride shaped modern ...
The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy ...
Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland ...
Striking images from 1914 to 1918 show what life was like for those at home during the First World War, especially women.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...
Lubrin, the author of Code Noir, which won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and The Dyzgraphxst, which won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize, pays tribute to her mother in her latest book, The World ...
What do displays of national pride mean when they are no longer accompanied by the mass shared grief that gave rise to them?