BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
Places in Coventry & Warwickshire that tell a story of World War One
Market Place, Warwick: The Day the War Ended
How the news of the end of the war was received across Warwickshire
Rugby, Warwickshire: Desperate Housewives
Food shortages that led to desperate measures
Weddington, Nuneaton: Voluntary Aided Hospital
The estate that was once a Red Cross war hospital
Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa: Recovering in Luxury
Soldiers came from far and wide to be treated for at these lavish convalescence centre
Highfield Road, Coventry: Rise of Women’s Football
Establishing Coventry City Ladies at the end of World War One
Nuneaton, Warwickshire: 3,000 Allied Troops Move In
When allied troops from Egypt took Nuneaton by storm – especially the local women
Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire: The Diary of Cordelia Leigh
Diaries of a wealthy Warwickshire woman that paint a picture of local life during WW1
Stratford Town Hall, Warwickshire: War Tribunals
Dealing with men who appealed against conscription
Bishopton, Warwickshire: The War Cartoonist
The better ‘ole of Old Bill
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: The Man Who Didn’t Shoot Hitler
Hitler displayed a picture of the man who he claimed saved his life
Pool Meadow Bus Station, Coventry: Buses That Went to the Front
The buses that came and then went to the front line
Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Kenilworth’s Got Mail
Graphic descriptions of trench life by a postman serving on the front line
Ordnance Road, Coventry: Ordnance Works
A leading munitions centre where a quarter of British aircraft was manufactured
Stoney Stanton Road , Coventry: Sikhs in the Trenches
Sikh soldiers like Maghar Singh are commemorated by a 22ft memorial in Coventry.
Spon Street, Coventry: The Toughest Bullet of the War
The Buckingham incendiary bullet that damaged the buoyant German Zeppelins
St Marys Guildhall, Coventry: Founder of Triumph Motorcycles
Supporting the British king against his home country
Whitmore Park, Coventry: White & Poppe Munitionettes
From manufacturing car components to ammunitions
Finham, Coventry: Women’s Land Army on Leasowes Farm
Changing attitudes towards women working on farms
The Plough Inn, Warwickshire: It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
A renowned wartime song written in a Balsall Common pub
Rugby, Warwickshire: A Schoolboy Escape
A schoolboy’s wartime mission to get home from Germany
