Collected first-hand accounts of British men and women serving their country during World War I, as discovered through the Herts At War community project. In He

This book highlights the importance of Watford as a regional centre within South West Herts during the years of the Great War as well as the cohesion of the loc

The railways were intrinsic to fighting the First World War, whether at home or abroad. On the Western Front and beyond trains ferried men and supplies to and f

Doctors played a bigger role in the First World War than in any other previous conflict. This reflected not only the War's unprecedented scale but a growing rec

At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. Few people remained unsca