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Armistice 100

A special supplement from the Observer to commemorate 100 years since the end of the first world war. Click here for all the Guardian's coverage of the Armistice centenary 

11 November 2018

  • A woman gauges shells in a munitions factory during World War I (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Women and the first world war: a taste of freedom

    For many women on the home front, the war years became a springboard to liberation. But with peace came the backlash
  • A ‘peace bus’ celebrates the signing of the armistice on11 November 1918.

    Armistice Day: victory and beyond

    On 11 November 1918, jubilant crowds across Britain celebrated the end of the war. But many new struggles were just beginning
  • American troops from the 369th black infantry regiment arrive back in New York after the end of the first world war.

    David Olusoga: ‘Black soldiers were expendable – then forgettable’

    Black and Asian troops fought beside white comrades – but after the armistice came the violent return of racial subjugation

4 November 2018

  • Amanda Harrison at the war memorial in Barnard Castle

    Five sons killed. Then a town’s pleas to save the last were heard

    The wartime tragedy faced by one family moved the queen to help bring their youngest boy home from the front. His granddaughter remembers

27 October 2018

  • Indian soldiers serving with the British army make camp in 1916.

    Indians in the trenches: voices of forgotten army are finally to be heard

    1.5 million fought with the British and 34,000 died. Now their sacrifice in the face of prejudice is being recognised

14 October 2018

  • Observer editor JL Garvin wrote constantly to his son Gerard in the trenches.

    Tragedy at the Somme that broke Observer editor’s heart

    Newspaperman JL Garvin used his influential editorials to campaign for conflict – until his adored son died in action

13 October 2018

  • Laetitia Hardie, 100, whose father, Brigadier General Louis John Wyatt, was the man who in 1920 selected the soldier to represent the Unknown Warrior.

    The story of the Unknown Warrior

    The daughter of the man tasked with selecting a dead soldier, Brigadier General Wyatt, turned 100 this year and was reunited with her father’s medals. Here she shares her memories
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