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There are six posts in The Copy Book assigned to 1918. To see all our posts in chronological order, go to the Tale of Years.

1917 1918 1919

The Letter of the Law

By A. G. Gardiner

After witnessing a bus conductor’s battle of wills with the London public, journalist Alfred Gardiner felt obliged to give him a little advice.

Northumberland

By Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

A poem of nostalgia for the sea breezes and yellow gorse of Northumberland.

St Elizabeth the New Martyr

By Clay Lane

The grand-daughter of Queen Victoria was as close to the poor of Moscow’s slums as she was to the Russian Tsar.

Kipling and ‘Agamemnon’

By Clay Lane

Both Rudyard Kipling and the Royal Navy saw Greek sovereignty as a universal symbol of freedom.

‘Hail, Liberty!’

By Rudyard Kipling

Kipling borrowed from the Greek Independence movement to give thanks for the end of the Great War.

Armistice Day

By Clay Lane

Armistice Day is the anniversary of the end of the First World War on the 11th of November, 1918.