Schwäbisch Hall 1914 – 1918

Medical women at war, 1914-1918.

Women had a long and difficult struggle before they were allowed to obtain a medical education.' Even in 1914 the Royal Free was the only London teaching hospital to admit them and some universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) still held out against them. The cost of a medical education continued to be a major obstacle, but at least there were enough schools by then to ensure that British ...

Extraordinary deaths of asylum inpatients during the 1914-1918 war.

During the 1914-1918 war there was, from year to year, a mounting number of deaths among the inpatients of some (but not all) English asylums. By the beginning of 1916 the Board of Control, the small government office responsible for offering guidance to managers and monitoring the proper running of asylums in England and Wales, was perturbed and puzzled by the figures.' The most important func...

Pre-war Military Planning (Belgium) | 1914-1918-Online

Following the Treaty of London in 1839, pre-war planning theories in Belgium oscillated between two positions: secure and defend endangered borders or create a powerful military stronghold in Antwerp. On the eve of the Great War, King Albert I and his chief of staff held opposing strategies for protecting Belgium. The King advocated a concentration of the army on the Meuse, where the Germans ha...

Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918

At the end of Miklos Banffy’s entertaining panoramic novel of pre-WWI Hungary, the protagonist Count Balint takes a final tour of Transylvania before joining his regiment. It is a personal and private farewell to his childhood home and to a whole generation of Hungarian nobles, of which Balint/Banffy was highly critical. The novel ends with the telling words ‘Bonczhida, May 20th, 1940’.(1) This...

The Pity of Peace: Germany’s Economy at War, 1914-1918 and Beyond