Allan Little reflects on CRW Nevinson's 1917 painting Paths of Glory, considering its lasting power and the role of art both in recruiting soldiers and in denouncing war. Show more

Author and broadcaster Sara LeFanu reflects on Rose Macaulay's 1916 novel Non-Combatants and Others, considering how it sheds light on Macaulay's own changing attitude to the war. Show more

Cartoonist Martin Rowson reflects on Otto Dix's Der Krieg, a cycle of prints of wartime experience. What did the war do to Dix and why is Der Krieg such a powerful statement? Show more

Professor David Edgerton of King's College London reflects on the Memorandum on the Neglect of Science, a 1916 clarion call from the British scientific establishment. Show more

Dr Heather Jones reflects on Henri Barbusse's novel Le Feu, the work of a French soldier at the front in World War I and the first explicit account of conditions there. Show more

Professor Ian Christie discusses Sergei Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin as a response to World War I. Show more

Lyse Doucet discusses Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France, Fighting France from Dunkerque to Belfort, which described the country's overnight change from peace to war. Show more

Academic Michal Shapira discusses Sigmund Freud's Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, a text written in Vienna in 1915 expressing dismay at how World War I was progressing. Show more

Santanu Das discusses the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing and on the impact of World War I on the Indian fight for independence. Show more

Poet Ruth Padel reflects on the German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her youngest son, Peter, who died on the battlefields of the First World War in October 1914. Show more