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    As we approach the 103rd anniversary of the Armistice...
    Michael Baker
    • Nov 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    As we approach the 103rd anniversary of the Armistice...

    Was WW1 a 'just' war? Big wars have a habit of changing what warfare means. If your enemy can find a means to best you, however heinous,...
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Nov 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    As we approach the 103rd anniversary of the Armistice on November 11, 1918, it's an opportune moment to get away from the myths and...
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    Unknown Warriors - Shell Shock
    Michael Baker
    • Nov 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors - Shell Shock

    Exactly 105 years ago today, the 11th Battalion of the Border Regiment, nicknamed the Lonsdales (after their patron the Earl of...
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    As we remember again the end of WW1 ...
    Michael Baker
    • Apr 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    As we remember again the end of WW1 ...

    Total War The idea of total war - which has come back into use during the worldwide battle against Covid - is usually associated with the...
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    Unknown Warriors - Understanding the First World War
    Michael Baker
    • Mar 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors - Understanding the First World War

    Would Brexit have ever happened if we weren't an island? The idea of European unity is very appealing if, for centuries, your country has...
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    Unknown Warriors -Understanding the First World War
    Michael Baker
    • Feb 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors -Understanding the First World War

    Fritz Haber, the German chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1918, was quite a contradiction. By helping develop industrial...
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    Unknown Warriors -Understanding the First World War
    Michael Baker
    • Feb 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors -Understanding the First World War

    We tend to define the First World War as 1914-18, but for most of central/eastern Europe and the Middle East 1918 had no meaning. As huge...
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    Unknown Warriors - Understanding the First World War
    Michael Baker
    • Feb 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors - Understanding the First World War

    Why, over 100 years later, do we still believe that the outbreak of the First World War was greeted with universal enthusiasm in the...
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Jan 3, 2020
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    The Real First World War If you want to read about this unusual WW1 podcast series and the ideas behind it, you can go to the online...
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Dec 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    Understanding The First World War Memory and remembrance have played a key part in the way we interpret the First World War. But memory...
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Dec 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    Understanding The First World War Until recently, most general histories of the First World War either were narrative accounts or told...
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Dec 3, 2019
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    Understanding The First World War We think of the First World War as a well defined time span 1914-18, almost as if it took place in some...
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Dec 2, 2019
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    Understanding The First World War In the popular British narrative, 1918 is the ‘forgotten year’ of the First World War. Instead, all the...
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Nov 29, 2019
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    Understanding the First World War 1.5 million Indians volunteered to fight for the Allied cause during the First World War. And yet the...
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Nov 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    Understanding The First World War Shell shock was unknown before the First World War, but rapidly grew to prominence during the conflict....
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Nov 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    Understanding The First World War Despite the fact that in the years before 1914 international conferences had agreed a set of rules to...
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Nov 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    Understanding The First World War: Historians of WW1 now view the conflict through trans-national and global perspectives, not simply the...
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    Unknown Warriors
    Michael Baker
    • Nov 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    Unknown Warriors

    As we approach the 103rd anniversary of the Armistice.... Despite the global nature of the First World War, the popular British narrative...
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    UNKNOWN WARRIORS
    Michael Baker
    • Nov 22, 2019
    • 1 min

    UNKNOWN WARRIORS

    The Real First World War: Forget the popular British narrative that's prevailed for so long - 10 leading historians tell us what this...
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