The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. During the First World War, over 240,000 British soldiers lost limbs as a result of the fighting. Of these men a number would be sent to a hospital in East Sussex to learn from the limbless children who stayed there. In the years before the […]

The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. In 1918 as a result of the war and German U-Boats sinking ships carrying food, rationing was introduced and a committee was set up to look at the ways of utilising any available natural resource. Throughout the country, rural schools were instructed to ‘employ […]

The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. During the First World War, Britain was faced with shortages to various chemicals and components that were useful in making ammunition. In order to keep the army supplied and armed inventive solutions to these shortages were sought. The chemical Acetone was a vital component of cordite, which […]