Tom Griffin (London, OK): As the 90th anniversary of the 1918 armistice approaches, historian Dan Todman considers the meaining of the First World War for Britain today in an OpenDemocracy essay:
The remembering of major national events is bound to change over time. What makes the current British memorialising of the 1914-18 war fascinating is the way it combines fairly fixed concerns and narratives with novel voices and forms of inquiry. That makes it too an interesting case of how societies in the process of exploring their past can resist as well as embrace a deeper encounter with it.
