The Thursday Post: Honouring Scotland’s WW1 Poets

Today, the Scottish Poetry Library, in partnership with City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Aberdeen and Dignity Funerals, launches an online poll (click here to take part) to find a quote to be inscribed on a...

The Thursday Post: Wilfred Owen’s Edinburgh 1917-2017

A century ago, the war poet Wilfred Owen spent summer and autumn in Edinburgh, recovering from shellshock. Owen’s stay in Edinburgh in 1917 proved to be a turning point in the history of English literature, for it’s here that...

The Thursday Post: Dazzle Ships

During the First World War, the Admiralty in Britain tried a remarkable experiment with a form of camouflage that made ships more, not less, visible. These ‘dazzle ships’ were decorated with extraordinary patterns and colours, no two the same,...

The Thursday Post: Beneath Troubled Skies

29. "Tommy" at home in German dug-outs (1914-1918) by pellethepoet, under a Creative Commons licence

The Thursday Post: A Foughten Field

Reeve 039799 by Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health, under a Creative Commons licence

The Thursday Post: The Kaki Tree

Image: Morven Gregor Thinking of myself as a phoenix, cling on until now. But how painful they have been, those twenty-four years past. Those words were written by Tsutomu Yamaguchi, often described as the luckiest – sometimes as the unluckiest – man of all...