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One hundred years ago, 24 April 1915: Armenian genocide begins | History & Lore of the Old World War
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History and Lore of the Old World War. Artifacts and odd bits from 1914-1918. One hundred years ago, 24 April 1915: Armenian genocide begins. Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915. A Chronology of the Armenian Genocide. Map of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Turkish Empire. Memorials to the Armenian Genocide. Turkey angry at Pope Francis Armenian ‘genocide’ claim. On April 23, 2015 at 11:51 am Comments (1). To TrackBack this entry is:. Feed for comments on this post. Out at Neuilly....
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Sardonic Rat | Writing about War Poetry | Page 2
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Writing about War Poetry. Newer posts →. August 18, 2014. I’m coming to the end of my work on the use of myth in the poetry of David Jones and Isaac Rosenberg. A point of connection between them is that they both imagine the earth of the battlefield as a kind of female deity. For Jones, the earth is a protective mother figure:. Pray her hide you in her deeps. She’s only refuge against. Soldiers pray to her for protection:. Maiden of the digged places. Let our cry come unto thee. Moder, mother of me.
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War Poetry: On Seamus Heaney's Last Poem
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Saturday, 26 October 2013. On Seamus Heaney's Last Poem. The Guardian is today running an article on 'Seamus Heaney's last poem'. Whether 'In a Field' can sustain that billing, the small print acknowledges, we don't yet know for sure: 'the papers he left behind are yet to be fully examined'. So, for 'last' read 'latest'. Nevertheless, if even Heaney's final text message enjoys laudatory reviews. His late, latest and last poems should expect enthusiastic attention. Dulce et decorum est. Undoubtedly, Georg...
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War Poetry: The BBC's coverage of the First World War
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Thursday, 17 October 2013. The BBC's coverage of the First World War. You can find an anthology of teasers for the BBC's centenary coverage of the First World War here. Yours truly appears at 10:04, introducing Ivor Gurney. From these brief highlights, the programmes look very promising. The BBC has evidently thought about how to challenge prevailing myths, hence much discussion about the necessity of the War, and more importantly, the necessity of. The clue being in the name, after all). Multimedia Firs...
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Uncategorized | History & Lore of the Old World War
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History and Lore of the Old World War. Artifacts and odd bits from 1914-1918. Poets Killed on the First Day of the Somme, July 1, 1916. 2nd Lt. Henry FIELD. Served with the 6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiement. He was killed on the first day Somme during the bitter fighting for Serre, one of 836 casualties from his battalion. He was 22. Buried at Serre Road Cemetery No.2, Beaumont Hamel and Hebuterne. Above the shot-blown trench he stands,. Tall and thin against the sky;. The likeness of a skeleton.
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Roy Eastland’s memorial to the Tontine Street bombing | Sardonic Rat
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Writing about War Poetry. K J Shepherdson’s Polaroid ‘lifts’ of the Broadstairs War Memorial. 8216;Amputations etc.’ →. Roy Eastland’s memorial to the Tontine Street bombing. November 24, 2014. Remembering, We Forget. At the Sidney Cooper Gallery until December 17. I am Principal Lecturer in Modern Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University. My research focusses on the poetry of the First World War. View all posts by Andrew Palmer →. This entry was posted in War Poetry Links. You are commenting us...
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Meredith Loveland Dowd | History & Lore of the Old World War
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History and Lore of the Old World War. Artifacts and odd bits from 1914-1918. First to Fall: the American Volunteers who Gave their Lives for France. Yet today, a hundred years on, the American Volunteers are little remembered. I doubt that you will find even a passing mention of them in any American textbook. As often as time and opportunity permit, over the next three years, photographs and brief obituaries of individual Volunteers will appear here, beginning with three this evening, from the American ...
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One hundred years ago, April 25, 1915: the Gallipoli landings | History & Lore of the Old World War
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History and Lore of the Old World War. Artifacts and odd bits from 1914-1918. One hundred years ago, April 25, 1915: the Gallipoli landings. Battle of Gallipoli: animated battle map. Gallipoli Centenary Research Project: Researching Gallipoli in the Turkish Military Archives. 8220;Never-before-seen photographs show horror of doomed Gallipoli landings through the eyes of the soldiers who fought there.”. On April 25, 2015 at 12:01 am Leave a Comment. To TrackBack this entry is:. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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French Foreign Legion | History & Lore of the Old World War
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History and Lore of the Old World War. Artifacts and odd bits from 1914-1918. First to Fall: the American Volunteers who Gave their Lives for France. Yet today, a hundred years on, the American Volunteers are little remembered. I doubt that you will find even a passing mention of them in any American textbook. As often as time and opportunity permit, over the next three years, photographs and brief obituaries of individual Volunteers will appear here, beginning with three this evening, from the American ...
