Immerse yourself in IWM's Podcast series narrated by James Taylor, principal curator, public history, which will walk you through life in Britain and abroad during the First World War.

You can discover more about the First World War through the eyes of the British people and the Empire at IWM London's First World War Galleries, which display over 1,300 objects including weapons, uniforms, diaries, keepsakes, film and art.

In Combat

MAJESTIC CLASS BATTLESHIPS: HMS MAJESTIC
© IWM (Q 39496)
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First World War Galleries Podcast: Part I - Hope and Glory

As the twentieth century dawned, Britain was one of the greatest powers on Earth.

A 75mm field gun taking up its firing position at the camp of instruction at Bougainville, 1 December 1916.
© IWM (Q 98157)
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First World War Galleries Podcast: Part II - Shock

Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, mainland Europe became a battleground.

British First World War period trench sign.
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First World War Galleries Podcast: Part III - Deadlock

By late 1914 the war on the Western Front had become deadlocked.

Mounted stuffed pig's head, Tirpitz the pig
© IWM (EPH 9032)
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First World War Galleries Podcast: Part IV - Global War

The European conflict spread as far as Africa, Asia and the Middle East

A British sentry going up to his post, the Somme, July 1916
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First World War Galleries Podcast: Part V - Total War

The bloody and ferocious battle of the Somme

At home

Munition workers painting shells at the National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell
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First World War Galleries Podcast: Part VI - Feeding The Front

The reliance on the home front by soldiers was near breaking point

Mrs Kitchener, A female gravedigger, stands on the church path with her spade and pick over her shoulder
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First World War Galleries Podcast: Part VII - At All Costs

Women began to take on more and more roles to aid the strength of Britain's society

Australian troops walk along a duckboard track through the remains of Chateau Wood, Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele)
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First World War Galleries Podcast: Part VIII - Machines Against Men

The rise of machinery in the battlefield

Banner carried during the Bolshevik party's takeover of the government of Russia in the autumn of 1917
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First World War Galleries Podcast: Part IX - Breaking Down

The British government started to look to homegrown substitutes to keep Britain going

© IWM Q 2943
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First World War Galleries Podcast: Part X - War Without End

Four years of fighting meant that the men who returned were never the same again