Tag Archives: WWI

Lights Out

Posted on by

One hundred years ago today, 4th August 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany unless they agreed to unilaterally withdraw all their troops from Belgium by midnight their time, 11pm UK time. As the 11pm deadline approached with absolutely no response – or sign of a response – from Germany, Sir Edward Grey, our Foreign […]

Hidden historical heroines (#18: Edith Cavell)

Posted on by

  Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse and a celebrated patriot, court-martialled and sentenced to death by the Germans during World War I.   Edith was born in Swardeston, a village near Norwich, where her father was the local vicar. Upon reaching adulthood, she moved to Brussels, […]