AS Armistice Day approaches, EMMA CLAYTON looks back to the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, when she visited a French village where ...

The Battle of the Somme, of which 1st July was just the first, disastrous day, raged for another four months, and was vital not only in diverting German forces away from their assault on the ...

Using new and emerging technologies and working with botanists and scholars beyond the university, U of T librarians, ...

Harold Wrong plucked a flower from the fields of Somme, France on June 30, 1916 and tucked it into a letter he mailed home to ...

As we approach Remembrance Day on November 11, Sebastian Faulks’s epic tale of love and loss set during the first world war ...

Otto Dix, a painter labeled “degenerate” by the Nazis, refused to flatter his subjects — but they agreed to sit for him ...

Sinn Féin Lord Mayor John Finucane lays a laurel wreath at Belfast City Hall, to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme Northern Ireland Secretary of State Karen Bradley and Sinn Féin ...

The Battle of the Somme was launched on 1 July 1916. The main aim of the battle was to relieve the important northern French fortress of Verdun. This had been placed under siege by the German Army ...

Almost 2,000 soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division died on the first day of the Somme campaign. When it was withdrawn from the line, the division had won a reputation as courageous soldiers.

D-Day vet was told: 'You're the assault wave, you won't be coming back' AS his landing craft made its way to Juno beach, Alan King found himself surrounded by flames . . . and the heads ...

War graves lit up for a vigil to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme at the Thiepval memorial Source: AAP The French had Verdun, Australians have ...