Coward review – soldiers find escapism and romance in wartime theatrical troupe

Cannes film festival: Lukas Dhont’s first world war-set gay romance is a heartfelt examination of cowardice and lives lived in secret amid the brutality of battle

The Guardian

Two imperial ventures at Kut al-Amara, one in the #FirstWorldWar and another in the Iraq War, reveal the similarities – and differences – in the exercise of power.

⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/kut-losses-two-disasters-mesopotamia

Kut Losses: Two Disasters in Mesopotamia | History Today

University of Guelph's Project Reunion aims to connect students who died in WWI with families
A group of University of Guelph students are working on Project Reunion to honour 109 soldiers who fought and died in the First World War. The soldiers attended and graduated from the university at the turn of the early 20th century when it was known as the Ontario Agricultural...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/project-reunion-university-of-guelph-soldiers-students-9.7176015?cmp=rss
#VILenin's #AprilTheses were first heard in a speech on #ThisDayInHistory in 1917, a day after returning to Russia. In them, #Lenin rejected the #FirstWorldWar, the #ProvisionalGovernment, and a republic; and calls for the "abolition of the police, the army, and the bureaucracy".
Toronto honours soldiers lost during Vimy Ridge Battle
The City of Toronto held a commemoration ceremony for the Battle of Vimy Ridge on Sunday at the Old City Hall Cenotaph. A group of people, including Mayor Olivia Chow, gathered to recognize the casualties of members of the Canadian Corps during the First World War. While it remains Canada’s most notable military victory, more than 3,500 Canadians lost their lives. Of those, 114 were from ...
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7161116?cmp=rss

No revolutions, nothing medieval - a friend sent me this awesome resource about what German officers drank in 1910 and it probably explains a few things about the #FirstWorldWar

https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/04/10/getting-colossally-drunk-royal-prussian-version/

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #cocktails #Wilhelmine #drinking #militaryhistory

WW I memorial rededicated at Winnipeg's Brookside Cemetery after relocation from Portage and Main
A prominent statue commemorating First World War veterans that stood at the intersection of Portage and Main in downtown Winnipeg for more than a century has found its new home at Brookside Cemetery in the northwest corner of the city.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/war-statue-relocated-brookside-mmf-9.7157992?cmp=rss

Painted Poppies and Poesy

Poppies, like many flowers and herbs, are beneficial to the world of medicine, but poppies appeal to me because they are survivors and symbolise life, hope, and flexibility. The immense devastation on the battlefields in the northern region of Belgium in the 1st World War left 55,500 British soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of German, French, and Belgian troops, unaccounted for - their remains still buried in the Fields of Flanders. I penned the poem 'Poppies Remember', which […]

https://carolinestreetblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/painted-poppies-and-poesy/