Perspectives from 2014 to 2018 on the war that changed everything. World War One explored on BBC TV, Radio and Online.
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BBC World War One retweeted
Today we marked 100 years since the end of WW1 with beautiful portraits of fallen soldiers etched on beaches. #Armistice100 #LestWeForget
“Just before 11 o’clock, the teacher came up to us and said get your notebooks out, I want you to write down something that you’re going to remember for the rest of your lives: 11 11 11”
Explore World War One with Armistice Day from @BBCArchive
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The human cost of the First World War has become one of its defining legacies. It was a global conflict that changed the lives of millions.
This footage from IWM's Film Archive highlights that human cost and the ways in which people commemorated the dead.
Film Number: IWM 505
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Giant portraits of soldiers who lost their lives in World War One have been etched across UK beaches in a project conceived by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle bbc.in/2QAzBYP #PagesOfTheSea
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BBC World War One retweeted
Remembrance Day: Pride and awe at the People's Procession
#LestWeForget bbc.in/2QB1mAg
BBC World War One retweeted
The Queen arrives at a special remembrance service at Westminster Abbey to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War
bbc.in/2QA68Oq #lestweforget
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Silence at the Cenotaph in London and tributes on UK beaches to mark 100 years since the end of World War One bbc.in/2DzxyB8 #LestWeForget
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How you can follow this evening's Armistice service live:
📺 Watch @BBCOne from 5:10pm: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0brzcb…
📻 Listen to @BBCRadio4 from 5:50pm: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000168…
⛪ Download the Order of Service: westminster-abbey.org/media/…
📱 Live tweets from @wabbey tagged #Armistice100
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What were the lasting effects of World War One? The people who were there share their memories. #RemembranceSunday #Armistice100
Making the Caribbean soldiers of World War One visible through verse – listen to Tanya Shirley perform her poem meditating on mental health and colonial masters in the trenches bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06r9y…
BBC World War One retweeted
Four surprising innovations from WW1 #Armistice100
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The centenary of the end of the First World War has been marked by world leaders. But how did people react at the time? #ArmisticeDay100 bbc.in/2QHcdbS
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Take a personal and interactive journey through WW1 on #Armistice100Day: armistice-day.bbcrewind.co.u…
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One of the original sketches for the #Cenotaph is on display in Lest We Forget?, an exhibition at @IWMNorth exploring the ways the nation has remembered the First World War.
Find out how it went from sketch to stone monument.
#MakingANewWorld #ArmisticeDay100
BBC World War One retweeted
What did Armistice Day 1918 look like?
These clips from IWM's Film Archive show people gathered in the Charing Cross area of London to celebrate the end of the war and Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, met by cheering crowds. #ArmisticeDay100
Film Number: IWM 505 & 664a
A portrait of World War One poet Wilfred Owen is drawn in the sand then washed away in Folkestone as part of the #PagesOfTheSea commemorations with Danny Boyle and @1418NOW bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46172371?n…
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"Long live peace"
President Macron stressed the importance of global unity at a ceremony in Paris marking a century since the end of World War One #ArmisticeDay100
bbc.in/2QAas0n
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10,000 members of the public - chosen by ballot - take part in People's Procession past the Cenotaph in London for #ArmisticeDay100
bbc.in/2QuZWap #LestWeForget