Words of War: A Remembrance Day Special

09/11/2025 36 min

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For Remembrance Day, we read real letters written during the First World War. Real voices. Real words. Letters written in the middle of a war that still speak to us today.References:The National Archives – Letters from the First World War (1915): “Trenches: mostly ‘mere boys’”https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/letters-first-world-war-1915/trenches-mostly-mere-boys/Imperial War Museums – Letter concerning the burning of a Zeppelin at Cuffley, Hertfordshire (September 1916)https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030005513National Army Museum – Rifleman William Eve: Winter on the Western Front (January 1915)https://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/rifleman-william-eve/