Verdun was one of the most savagely fought battles of World War One. The Germans fired two million shells in the opening eight-hour bombardment, and tens of millions were fired over the course of ...
More subtle, however, was MP for Flydale North Harriet Jones' statement that she's "hardly one of the babes". This was a reference to Blair's Babes, the Daily Mail's regressive name for the 101 female ...
World War One ended at 11am on 11 November, 1918. This became known as Armistice Day - the day Germany signed an armistice (an agreement for peace) which caused the fighting to stop. People in ...