“Wars are alwasy lost, and The War always goes on, and it is no good growing faint.” – JRR Tolkien
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 disappeared from everyone’s memory as soon as it was over. Nobody seemed willing to address it, not even historians. Yet, it had lasting effects on the population that lived through it and has become relevant today once more in our new pandemic times.
It was supposed to be over by Christmas, but when Christmas actually came in that first year of war in 1914, the end was not in sight by a long shot.
Yet, the troops on all fronts were more than ready to see the end, and on that Christmas Day, they tried to overcome the…
We call it the Great War, but it isn’t about war. It’s about being human.
Therefore, it doesn’t matter that it happened more than a century ago.
The Great War was very familiar with the supernatural. The Angels of Mons was only one episode. Why were people so willing to believe in interventions from the otherworld?
The appearance of the Angels of Mons to protect the British troops in early WWI was widely believed by the population. What facts do we know about it?
Gang Roundup (July 2021) A collection of articles about WWI and a look at some of the new dieselpunk novels.
Gang Roundup (June 2021) Resources for history lovers interested in the Spanish Influenza pandemic. Videos covering 1920s subjects. New releases of novels set in the 1920s.
The Spanish Flu pandemic of one hundred years ago bears striking similarities with the Covid-19 pandemic of today, but it also holds many differences.
A collection of WWI resources. New relieses of historical novels set in the 1920s and 1930s
Starting immediately after the end of the Great War, travelling to the war zones along the Western Front flourished, especially from the Commonwealth countries. Ex-servicemen and families alike travelled to the places of war to find the graves of their loved ones and commemorate them. But this soon turned into a profitable form of tourism…
That experience of the front defines the youths that took part in WWI. Their souls, their behaviours, the way they saw the future, everything was heavily impacted. Among the many things they had in common was the inability to express their war experience.