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| A few Dos and Don'ts of looking after old photographs and documents. |
| Edith Cavell was an English nurse who, in 1907, became Matron of Belgium's first training school for nurses. When war broke out in August 1914, she formed a Red Cross hospital in Brussels and nursed wounded German and Belgian soldiers. |
| The term Christmas Truce refers not to a single event but to a number of spontaneous expressions of comradeship between front-line soldiers of both sides on the Western Front in December 1914 – the first Christmas of the First World War. |
| Churchill would regularly wake at about 8.30am, have a cigar in bed and then hold court sitting propped up in bed. |
| Some handy tips on caring for old medals and badges. |
| Sources in the Department of Printed Books include a complete set of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission registers, which list all those who died on active service between 4 August 1914 and 31 August 1921, and between 3 September 1939 and 31 December 1947. |
| The turbojets developed to power the TSR-2 also powered one of Duxford's most popular exhibits, the British Aircraft Corporation / Aerospatiale Concorde. |
| A conscientious objector is a person who, for reasons of conscience such as religious or philosophical principles, refuses to get involved in acts which may result in killing or harming other human beings. |
| A brief history of conscription during the First World War. |
| Of similar size to the B-17 Fortress, the Liberator was a later and more advanced design, the prototype flying in 1939. |
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