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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Parade’s End: how First World War architecture fell out of fashion
With the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War upon us, it’s been impossible to escape. Siegfried Sassoon poems have been reverently recited on Newsnight. On Woolwich Common, near where I live, a replica trench has been built … Continue reading
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