The First World War was one of the most catastrophic and impactful moments in British History. It saw the advent of new ways of waging war; a new, more mechanised, more industrial kind of war that began to encompass every aspect of British society. Every class, every position, every man, woman and child; no one and nothing was left untouched by the Great War. In the history of Britain, there are few events that can match the true impact the First World War had.For many, their understanding of the Great War begins with the Western Front, with fields pockmarked with vast craters, laced with mud-filled trenches, with barbed wire, gas and No-Man’s Land. But, Britain was in turmoil even before the declaration of war was written.

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