Walking with Ghosts, - Some First World War Topics

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When discussing or studying the First World War, it is all too easy to concentrate on the fighting and the general slaughter that too place. But there are some other aspects that well repay studying. The topics listed below are covered on this website, and you may visit the relevant pages by selecting the thumbnail imagess below.

Many ideas and inventions which we rely upon nowadays stem directlly from developments associated with the First World War. Blood transfusions, the private motor car, caterpillar tracks........ thse are just a few examples.

The role that women played in the First World War was an extremely important one. When the war broke out, women were not allowed to vote in parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom, - and yet they served a vital role in keeping industry going, and in producing the arms and munitions that were required for the war. These jobs were additional to the more obvious ones such as in nursing.

Medicine and Health are discussed on this site, as many medical developments stemmed directly from the First World War. It is interesting to think that modern aspects of medicine which are nowadays taken for granted, - such as anaesthetics, blood transfusions, and antibiotics were either not available or in their infancy at the time.

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