Arts & Media
The impact on arts, literature, poetry and journalism
Scotland, Haddington: The Cranston Family at War
Seven sons from the Cranston family went to fight, this is the tale of the family.
North Uist, Scotland: An Eala Bhan
The story of An Eala Bhan, “The White Swan”, a love song from the horror of the Somme.
Reay, Scotland: In Memoriam
Private David Sutherland was the inspiration for Lt Alan Mackintosh’s poem ‘In Memoriam’
Comber, Co Down: George Hackney - War Photographer
George Hackney, a keen amateur photographer who smuggled a small camera to the front
Belfast: Tobacco for the Troops
Belfast's large tobacco industry and how cigarettes were essential for troops morale
Tulsk, Co. Roscommon: Percy French
Percy French - songwriter, poet and painter was born in Cloonyquin House near Tulsk
Bangor, Co. Down: Wartime Seaside Scrapbooks
Scrapbooks show wartime seaside attractions
Belfast: The War in Advertising
Advertisers use the war to sell household products
Rockport School, Co. Down: Willoughby Weaving the Forgotten War Poet
Willoughby Weaving published numerous volumes of poetry after he returned from The Front
Tarbert, Co. Kerry: Thomas McGreevy, the Modernist Poet
Thomas MacGreevy was a writer and poet who served in the Royal Field Artillery during WW1
Tipperary: It’s a Long, Long Way
Story of the song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary".
Sutton Veny, Wiltshire: Comic Relief for the Empire in its Darkest Hour
The WW1 cartoon which would become known around the world
Greenock, Scotland: WW1 Propaganda Posters at the McLean Museum
PA16 8JX - The story of Thomas Thomson and his collection of 300 propaganda posters.
Snibston Primary School, Leicestershire: Headmaster Turned War Poet
The soldier poet of the Leicestershire Regiment who appealed for new troops
33 The Square, Caerleon: Birthplace of Arthur Machen - creator of one of the greatest WW1 Myths
First ever Urban Myth, The Angel of Mons, was invented during WW1
Crich, Derbyshire: The Wipers Times
Satirical paper written in the trenches by members of the Sherwood Foresters
Castle Foundry, Powys: Creating the WW1 Welsh Dragon—World War One At Home
Behind-the-scenes with Artist Lee Odishow, during the creation of new WW1 Welsh Dragon
North Coast, Cornwall: Inspiration for the ‘Ode of Remembrance’
Where poet Laurence Binyon penned the iconic ‘For The Fallen’
Bo’ness, Scotland: Music of film in 1914
EH51 0AA - Bo’ness Hippodrome re-enacts a night out on the eve of The First World War.
Fleet Street, London: Importance of the Press in WW1
How The Times owner became the director for propaganda
Edinburgh, Scotland: Napier University World War One Centenary Choral Concert
EH3 9DJ - Students at Napier University recreate a World War One charity concert.
Georgeham, Devon: Henry Williamson’s War Stories
Tarka, trauma and telling the tales of war – a soldier’s war stories
Edinburgh, Scotland: Christine Orr and The Glorious Thing
EH1 1EW - The story of the World War One novel, The Glorious Thing.
Weirleigh, Kent: War Poet Sassoon’s Childhood Home
The patriotic war poet who soon became an objector to WW1
