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. Holland and Sandbrook discuss the last hours of fighting and specific last casualties, the political collapse in Germany leading to the 11 November 1918 armistice, and the emergence of the Imperial War Graves Commission under Fabian Ware w...
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Around 1918
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)