This assassination and the international reactions to it led to the outbreak of World War One. However, there are a number of wider causes and factors that contributed to the war. Some date back ...

BBC News Productions. Christopher Clark, Professor of History at Cambridge University, presents a five-part series on the outbreak of World War One. He explains the reasons for the onset of ...

Children's programming and BBC Learning initiatives marking the centenary of World War One. CBBC Multi-award-winning ... try to explain the not-so-simple reasons for Britain joining the war.

the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.” — Captain Edwin Vaughan, 1917 Vaughan was a British Army officer in World War I, and his diary ...

As Hass indicated, Xi has been looking for a fight. The Chinese leader could have avoided the so-called "trade war" by ending ...

With over 40 years of experience researching the First World War, he has been involved in numerous projects to stimulate interest in the history of the conflict and strengthen understanding of its ...