Tanks were invented in Britain. Historian Dan Snow describes the earliest versions and charts how they developed and were increasingly used in battle during WW1. We hear how intrigued the British ...

Why the Indian soldiers of WW1 were forgotten Arsala Khan went on ... wrote something perhaps even more extraordinary: Captain Amar Singh penned what is possibly the world's longest diary.

WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths attributed to the use of the machine-gun in WW1, did its awesome threat actually ...

Is Tommy Johnson really the right person to be looking after his neighbour Isa on her first day at school 100 years ago? Compare their day to what your school is like today. Meet their teacher as ...

A wreck has been found off the Aberdeenshire coast that is believed to be a lost Royal Navy warship, sunk by a torpedo during World War One. HMS Hawke was discovered by a team of divers about 70 ...

Dan Snow describes the food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with what German soldiers had. The value of different foods is touched on and we learn that ...

Thanks for that. Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's? WW1: Why was the first day of ...

They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster? documentWW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster? The first day on ...

One vessel was the enormous Olympic – sister ship of the Titanic. Olympic became a troop ship during WW1 and was repainted in dazzle. She shows some of the techniques used by dazzle designers.