World War One

Dr Max Perutz made one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century

In 2013 a new tax was approved in one of the world’s biggest consumers of fizzy drinks

In the 1940s, vulnerable hospital patients were fed sugar to see if their teeth decayed.

The signing of a peace agreement that marked the end of World War One took place in 1919

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire was killed in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914

Eyewitness accounts from the archives of the start of war in the summer of 1914

Thousands of East Africans were conscripted to fight for Britain and Germany during WW1

When British and German troops sang carols, exchanged gifts and played football together

Soldiers who witnessed gas attacks recount their experiences in archive recordings

In January 1915 huge German Zeppelin airships began the first bombing raids on England

One New Zealand soldier's account of surviving the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915

1,200 died when a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner off Ireland in 1915

Thousands of British and Indian troops spent five months trapped in Kut, Iraq in WW1

One soldier's diary account of the brutal Italian campaign fought in the Alps

Thousands of women volunteered for war work during WW1. Hear archive from one of them.

The story of a young British pilot who survived the world's first war in the air

In 1916, French and German armies began one of the most devastating battles of WW1

BBC archive recordings of veterans who fought in one of the bloodiest battles in history

Tanks were first used in warfare on 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme

After enduring years of slaughter during WW1, French army units finally mutinied

Recordings of two people who felt the cost of war both on the battlefield and at home

The underwater vessels were first used widely in the First World War

Thousands went to prison for refusing to join Britain's war effort.

How Russia's disastrous war on the Eastern Front became a catalyst for revolution