First world war

Country diary: The inspiration for a first world war flying ace? | Phil Gates

Low Barns nature reserve, Witton-le-Wear, County Durham: Dragonflies perform an aerobatic stunt while pursuing prey, not unlike a famous dog-fight manoeuvre

Phil Gates

04, Oct, 2024 @4:30 AM

Work, fight, or play ball: when Babe Ruth paused his career and headed to the mill

During the first world war, Americans across society were expected to contribute. And that included baseball’s biggest stars

Rich Tenorio

26, Sep, 2024 @9:00 AM

‘A memorial to humanity’: Washington DC’s monumental first world war sculpture

The creator of a 60ft-long memorial to the Americans who served in the first world war hopes it serves as a cautionary tale

David Smith in Washington

24, Sep, 2024 @8:38 AM

Campo di Battaglia review – medicos face off in stately first world war hospital drama

Gianni Amelio’s saga is set in 1918, when a pair of Italian doctors take very different approaches to treating the wounded that pass through their wards

Xan Brooks

31, Aug, 2024 @5:00 PM

War by Louis-Ferdinand Céline review – disturbing, compelling, incomplete

A shellshocked soldier in Flanders embarks on a dreamlike journey in this savage fragment of a tale written in the 1930s by the controversial author of Journey to the End of the Night

John Banville

17, Jun, 2024 @6:00 AM

The Girl With the Needle review – horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case

Loosely based on fact, Magnus van Horn’s fictionalised true crime nightmare leaves you with a shiver of pure fear

Peter Bradshaw

16, May, 2024 @10:10 AM

The right to acquit based on conscience is rooted in Quaker pacifism | Letter

Letter: Antony Barlow on how his grandfather helped introduce a ‘conscience clause’ against compulsory military service in 1916

02, May, 2024 @5:07 PM

Heroism, sacrifice, defeat? The enduring mystery of George Mallory’s final Everest attempt

It’s almost a century since the 1924 expedition ended in tragedy, yet the question of whether the climbers conquered the summit remains unanswered

Robin McKie Science editor

28, Apr, 2024 @1:00 PM

Roy Bridge obituary

Other lives: Leeds University historian who was an authority on the late Habsburg empire

Mark Cornwall

04, Mar, 2024 @6:27 PM

Why Boris Johnson – and other men like him – love the idea of conscription | Zoe Williams

War memorials might be set in stone, but the debate to bring back conscription only serves those who shamelessly peddle the sacrifice of others as their own writes Zoe Williams

Zoe Williams

29, Jan, 2024 @3:44 PM