Remembrance Day is this Wednesday, marking the anniversary of the end of the First World War and remembering those who gave their life in the service of the armed forces. The connection between poetry and the First World War is well documented, but Edinburgh’s connection to some of the most famous war poets is less […]
Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori. Horace’s infamously haunting words hang looming over this list of honours once published in The Student, where hundreds of staff and students whose lives were lost in the First World War are laid to rest. Translated into English, “It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country”. […]
Poppies, a tradition instilled into our culture since 1921, is our nations way of remembering the lives lost during the World Wars. Older still is the two-minute silence on the 11 November, originally adopted in 1921. However, a recent motion proposed by Cambridge University’s Conservative Society that aimed to make the commemoration a better- established […]
This year marks the centenary of Armistice Day, when what was then the bloodiest war in human history drew to a close at 11 o’clock on 11 November. The Great War, as it was morbidly known, cost the lives of millions, led to the collapse of various empires and fundamentally reshaped Europe. Many of the […]
Fifa has recently denied a request to make an exception to the ban on political messages in the sport, which would allow English and Scottish players to wear armbands featuring poppies for their upcoming match at Wembley. In an act of defiance, the Football Association’s Greg Clarke stated that players in the November 11 game […]