100 years on: a social history project

Driving through Flanders recently, it dawned on me that 100 years ago, the people in the villages we were driving through would have been going about their daily lives with no inkling of the horrors about to be unleashed on them. The approaching centenary made me think about what it would have been like for those at home living through the war, reading the news reports. I decided to start a social history project, to follow the Telegraph archive each day through the war (therefore being a bit behind on the news) starting from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.