MERL Seminars: The Origins of the First World War

The talks will reveal a range of narratives, including some connected with Berkshire and Reading. Others will chart the varied ways in which this terrible conflict came to impact upon the British countryside and beyond. In July 1914, British foreign secretary Edward Grey penned the now infamous words ‘the lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.’ But what had impelled Britain and Germany to take up arms against each other? This talk explores the extensive scholarship investigating the origins of the Great War.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000391?id=EVENT466643