The Territorial Force is the forgotten army of the First World War. Between the pre-war Regular Army, which attempted to stem the German advance in 1914, and th

The popular image of the British soldier in the First World War is of a passive victim, caught up in events beyond his control, and isolated from civilian socie

At the dawn of the twentieth century Liverpool had 8 miles of docks thronged with cargo ships loading or discharging goods. When Britain declared war on Germany

William Mitchinson analyses the role and performance of the Territorial Force during the first two years of World War I. The study looks at the way the force wa

This interdisciplinary account explores how English infantrymen in Belgium and France experienced and coped with war between 1914 and 1918.