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In the coming months I will be posting a fairly random selection of stories about Plymouth during the First World War. But real stories seldom have a nice beginning and a neat ending so the first anecdote begins a little before the war. Until the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in June 1914, the newspapers mostly occupied themselves with Irish Home Rule and the latest outrages of the Suffragettes. Plymouth was not much in favour of the militant tactics of the Women’s Social and Political Union. Campaign
Last night I joined with people all over the country in a commemoration of the start of the First World War, the Great War, the War to end Wars. For the past year I have been looking into the ways that war affected the city where I live; Plymouth. I wasn’t trying for a historian’s analysis. I wanted to get an idea of how ordinary people felt and how they were coping and so I turned to the local newspapers of the time. There were the headlines and the carefully censored news report from the battlefields, min