End of the First World War & Remembrance (TRIH ep 118)
1918 · Resource
This Remembrance Day episode examines how the end of the First World War was commemorated and how those rituals — armistice timing, graves policy, the Unknown Warrior, the cenotaph, the two-minute silence and the poppy — were invented and institutionalized.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1918
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)