In this installment of NPR's "Word of the Week" series we trace the origins of the "cravat" (borrowed from the French ...

A NEWLY published book largely set in Craven tells the true story of two brothers who fought in the First World War.

India has banned its railway staff from wearing their traditional uniform as part of Narendra Modi’s sweeping campaign to ...

Francis "Jim" Grant, a Royal Marine and one of the last surviving British D-Day soldiers, died last week at 101.

A 2018 video shows the typical clothing worn by British troops in World War I to protect them from the weather and hostile fire. The clothing, relatively simply by today’s standards, was often ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...

Today marks a moment to reflect on the sacrifice of millions of young servicemen, many still just boys, who lost their lives in the two world wars, as well as men and women who have died in other ...

Two British soldiers have been commemorated more than a century after they were killed fighting in World War One. The graves of second lieutenants Esmond Kellie and Eric Hopkins of the Bedfordshire ...

A Kentucky man and avid military collector made a remarkable discovery at a local garage sale. Zachary Kahmann from Cold Spring has had interest in militaria ever since the age of 12, when he was ...

Syracuse Stage Costume Shop Manager Gretchen Darrow-Crotty has a favorite line she likes to repeat while working on period pieces: “We aren’t doing the BBC production.” She’s not throwing shade at the ...