Remembrance Day 11 november 2026 108th anniversary

At eleven o’clock this morning, we paused for two minutes’ silence. In this special edition of Historic UK's newsletter, we remember people whose lives were shaped by the two world wars, both on the front line and at home. We remember Edith Cavell, the British nurse who helped Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium, and Albert Ball, the young pilot from Nottingham. In Yorkshire, we meet the Barnbow Lasses, the women who made munitions near Leeds. We also visit Britain’s ‘Thankful Villages’, where every man who went away to fight in the First World War came home.

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