A hundred years ago the Norfolk Nurse Edith Cavell was executed by firing squad for helping soldiers to escape occupied Germany. A blanket of hand-crafted poppies created by Peterborough artist ...

When Samuel D. Riddle announced in the latter part of 1920 that his superb champion Man o’ War would not race as a 4-year-old, disappointment reigned far and wide among the magnificent colt’s legions ...

A new coin celebrating brave and devoted nurse Edith Cavell has been struck by the Royal Mint as part of its five-year commemoration of the First World War. The coin, which is available to order from ...

In 1932, Madame Tussaud’s asked their younger visitors to choose from among the waxworks the individual they most wanted to be like when they grew up. The most popular answer was not the kind of ...

Early news reports, which inspired a number of propaganda postcards, incorrectly said Edith Cavell had fainted after refusing to wear a blindfold at her execution Edith Cavell died as a pioneering ...

When The Telegraph conducted its first fundraising appeal in 1915, the results were self-evident: a monument for nurse Edith ...

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the remarkable war efforts of nurse, Edith Cavell. You only have to look around the UK to see that most of the current statues relating to the war have been dedicated ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Revered in Britain for her courage, First World War ...

The stoicism that made Edith Cavell a symbol of courage makes her an elusive biographical subject for Diana Souhami, says Jane Shilling In St Martin’s Place, London, stands a marble statue of Edith ...

The British nurse Edith Cavell worked as part of a Belgian resistance network during the first world war, operating from the training school she had been recruited to set up in Brussels in 1907. The ...