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“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime” In the early... more
“We have been forced to draw the sword”. Following the expiry of Austria’s Ultimatum on Saturday 25th July 1914, the Kaiser... more
On the 24th of July 1914, in London, the Liberal British Cabinet met to hear the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward... more
On the 20th of July 1914 the heads of state of two great European powers - France and Russia -... more
In the wake of the cataclysmic assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the 28th of June 1914, in Austria, the long... more
By the end of July 1914, the world hovered on the edge of a cataclysmic world war; Austria was at... more
Archduke Franz Ferdinand has arrived in Sarajevo for a military inspection, alongside his wife, Sophie, on the 28th of June... more
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, as heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was one of the most important men in the world. But... more
Gavrilo Princip, having been sent to school in Sarajevo, has become mixed up with the wrong crowd, and is now... more
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s greatest empires, in June 1914, set in motion... more