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From Princess Diana to Princess Grace to Marie Antoinette, certain royals have influenced fashion for the ages.
A remarkable grassroots effort between a family historian and a volunteer organisation results in 107 soldiers in unmarked ...
It may seem extraordinary today but in January 1915, Royaumont Abbey on the Western Front was transformed into a battlefield ...
Not content with ridiculing the Kaiser in the pages of the Daily Express, Sidney Strube joined up, serving with distinction ...
The doughboys hated British chow (not to mention drinking tea instead of coffee). They got along better with the Australians, ...
In WWII, as it was in WWI, the bodies of many of those who died in battle were never found. The Canadians who died and whose ...
Ninety per cent bored stiff, nine per cent frozen stiff and one per cent scared stiff. That was - historian Andy Robertshaw ...
Students Hugo, Millie-Jane, and Louie agreed they were "really happy" with the change A secondary school has started phasing out its traditional uniform to be replaced with PE kit. William Brookes ...
Here in the Education section we love to know what you're working on in the classroom, or how you might have used some of our resources. Send in your pictures, poems, photos, or anything else you'd ...
Independent readers share their views on conscription – from ‘necessary evil’ to ‘waste of time’ - THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Readers were divided on the idea of reintroducing national service, with many ...