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Campaigning today in the footsteps of those who said no to war 100 years ago
We need to honour and emulate those who rejected the call to kill and be killed in the First World War, says David Rosenberg.
Islamic State, Sykes-Picot and a century of British imperialism in the Middle East
The Middle East today is on fire. Historian Neil Faulkner explains how this vortex of violence extending from Central Asia to West Africa originated in the first world war.
What we can learn from Lawrence of Arabia about today's imperial wars
T.E. Lawrence has in some ways become the patron saint of the US Army in its wars on Afghanistan and Iraq.
Chewing at a steel door with false teeth: the 1916 battle for Verdun
In 1916, in one of history's longest and deadliest battles, 300,000 French and German troops died for a few acres of France. The ghosts still linger.
From World War I to Martin Luther King: how resistance to war was passed down the years
An unusual Christian service linked the courage and conviction of WW1 conscientious objectors to peacemaking in the present and future.
Stop Wars by Heathcote Williams
War’s devastation lets landscapes go to ruin. Air is defiled by dust and rank adrenalin. Stop Wars by poet Heathcote Williams. See video and lyrics »
Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy signed the No Glory in War open letter. Have you signed yet?